Volume 35, Number 4 · March 17, 1988
What Keeps the Japanese Going?
By Ian Buruma
Imperialist Japan: The Yen to Dominate
by Michael Montgomery
St. Martin's Press, 567 pp., $35.00
Occupation
by John Toland
Doubleday, 453 pp., $19.95
A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945–1980
by Shunsuke Tsurumi
Kegan Paul International, 174 pp., $45.00
Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese
by Donald Richie
Kodansha International, 204 pp., $16.95
Remaking Japan: The American Occupation As New Deal
by Theodore Cohen, edited by Herbert Passin
The Free Press, 533 pp., $27.50
The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children
by Merry White
The Free Press, 210 pp., $18.95
'You must realize,' said Watanabe Shoichi, a prominent Christian professor of English literature, who had just told me that racial purity was something to cherish, 'that until 1941 Japan was an entirely normal country.' Yes, well, I thought, as I digested this remarkable statement, that depends on what you consider normal.
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