Kiyosawa, a journalist, was consistent in his criticism of Japan’s military Government throughout the Second World War, and never succumbed to its propaganda. Many Japanese of the war generation would have no trouble understanding the reasons for the fanfare. The photograph on the cover shows him unprepared for this cascade of compliments, sitting amiably in front of shelves of books, rumpled and smoking a pipe. The translators assure us of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi’s ‘meticulous attention to detail, the self-revealing thoughtfulness of his reflections, and the acuity of his observation’. ‘A tribute to the human spirit,’ declares the blurb.
‘One of the most important and compelling documents of wartime Japan,’ the publisher informs us.
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