Matsumoto Shigeharu : bearing witness / Kaimai Jun ; English adaptation by Waku Miller
Imprint
Tokyo : International House of Japan, 2012
Edition
1st English ed
Descript
xviii, 219 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., portraits ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Formative Years : The end of the Meiji period and the flowering of Taisho Democracy -- In America : Career-shaping encounters in the Roaring Twenties -- New Perspectives : A firsthand look at international conferences -- The Xi'An Scoop : A historic journalistic coup -- An Elusive Peace : Dogged efforts to end the Fighting -- Betrayal : The disappearance of the word "withdrawal" -- The Peace that Wasn't : A pathetic caricature of what might have been -- Defeat, Surrender, and the Aftermath : Matsumoto's unassuming integrity -- The International House of Japan : A strategic platform for international cultural exchange