War and Conscience in Japan: Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War

by Richard H. Minear and Nambara Shigeru

One of Japan's most important intellectuals, Nambara Shigeru defended Tokyo Imperial University against its rightist critics and opposed Japan's war. His poetic diary (1936-1945), published only after the war, documents his profound disaffection. In 1945 Nambara became president of Tokyo University and was an eloquent and ardent spokesman for academic freedom. In this first English-language collection of his key work, historian and translator Richard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074256813X
• ISBN13: 9780742568136
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"