Senso: Japanese Remember the Pacific War (Studies of the Pacific Basin Institute)

Gibney, Frank; Cary, Beth

ISBN 10: 1563245892 / ISBN 13: 9781563245893

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul -, 1995

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Gd. condition - An examination of war . (KE9).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Senso: Japanese Remember the Pacific War (Studies of the Pacific Basin Institute)
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul -
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563245892
• ISBN 13: 9781563245893
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • War

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Synopsis

"Senso comes as close to anything I have seen to solving the mystery of obsessive Japanese reticence, even among themselves, about their war experience. ... Reading Gibney's English-language version of Senso convinces me of what I have long suspected: that the Japanese buried memories of the war not so they could live with outsiders but so they could live with one another". -- The Australian

Review

"In 1986 and 1987 the Asahi Shimbun solicited reminiscences of the war from its readers. The newspaper received over 4,000 letters. The Gibney-Cary translation of a selection has attained the status of a classic. They reveal many things, not least that the Japanese know full well what they did during the war, whether their politicians want to acknowledge it or not." - Chalmers Johnson, author of MITI and the Japanese Miracle"