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Tokyo [1928], Hokuseido. Green cloth,paper spine label,spine a bit dark, rubbed, clean covers,305p., 13 x 19 cm.,Japanese marginalia:red pencil, pen & pencil, GENERAL BONNER FELLER'S SIGNED DATED, KOREA copy. * RARE FIRST EDITION * . *** **** *** . . WITH TEN ESSAYS AND ARTICLES . . . COMPILED WITH NOTES BY HEARN'S JAPANESE STAR PUPIL . . . T. OCHIAI, PROFESSOR AT THE PEERS' COLLEGE . * Containing essays: . Hearn's Genius of Japanese Civilization; . Jiujutsu . The Future of the Far East . A Conservative . Difficulties . Strangeness and Charm . The Religion of Loyalty . Of The Eternal Feminine . Some Thoughts About Ancestor-Worship . The Idea of Preexistence . Ochiai's comprehensive foot notes and commentaries on the text. . *** Hearn at his best, a very useful, deep, penetrating essays. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: Generic: The book is bound in the publisher's green cloth with front cover paper title slip, spine printed in black ink. With Japanese colophon at the back. . When present this was issued in a dust jacket. . *** SPECIFIC COPY NOTES: . Copy 3 is signed by eminent and celebrated Major General Bonner Fellers of World War 2 occupied Japan fame. His inscription reads: "FELLER, SEOUL, KOREA JUNE 1930." . Condition: spine head & tail a bit, corners a bit of the usual rubbing, covers a bit dusty, contents profuse marginalia from a previous Japanese student of English, else solid & firm with front cover paper title label. . Fellers was U.S. Army Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers [1896-1973], an officer who served during World War II as military attaché and psychological warfare director, who had joined General MacArthur's Southwest Pacific Command in Australia in late 1943. After having worked for a year in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the CIA. . Maj. General Fellers was a military attaché in Tokyo prior to World War II, and had tracked down the Koizumi [Hearn] family, including Hearn's wife Setsuko and first son, Kazuo. Bonner Fellers struck up a close friendship with the family. Fellers had been a student of Lafcadio Hearn's writings, and in 1934-35, after being very impressed with Hearn's insights about the Japanese character, wrote a monograph:" THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE JAPANESE SOLDIER, based in large on Hearn's writings. Eventually this essay was read by MacArthur who was greatly impressed with Feller's expertise on Japan. . At the end of World War II with the defeat of Japan Maj. Gen Fellers arrived in Japan with MacArthur's staff. Fellers was immediately appointed guardian to Emperor Hirohito. and went to work to protect Hirohito from the role he had played during and at the end of the war. Fellers's overriding goals were to confirm the effectiveness of his own wartime propaganda program, and, at the same time, to shield Hirohito from standing at the war crimes tribunal. . Fellers was considered the most reliable Japan expert and the single-most influential person on MacArthur's staff concerning the Emperor. Fellers was MacArthur's military advisor. . For his remarkable contribution to the early end of the war and influencing Emperor Hirohito into subduing the Japanese population for American occupation, he received the Army's Distinguished Service Medal [DSO]. . Immediately after the war, Fellers brought food and vital supplies to the deprived and starving Koizumi family. On page 22 is an historic photograph taken just after the war in 1945 of the Koizumi family at Hearn's grave site. It shows Hearn's wife Setsuko, son Toki, Maj. Gen Fellers & Kazuo. . A movie starring Tommy Lee Jones: "EMPEROR" was issued in 2012, where Jones played General Douglas MacArthur, Matthew Fox played Feller's part. See link below for the full story plot. . *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: . P.D. & Ione Perkins: LAFCADIO HEARN A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS: p.166 * BAL 8004 . *.
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