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summary When the editors of Chûô kôron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prizewinning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzô to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war reports then in circulation.
1 lip 2003 · When the editors of Chûô kôron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prizewinning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzô to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war reports then in circulation.
Soldiers Alive (Ikite iru heitai), was written in furious haste based on observations and interviews with the soldiers involved; it was ready for publication in March, 1938. However, The Peace Preservation Law of 1925 and the earlier Press Law of 1909, were in increasing use: censorship, mass arrests, torture, and execution of some, mostly ...
31 lip 2003 · Soldiers Alive. Ishikawa Tatsuzo. University of Hawaii Press, Jul 31, 2003 - Fiction - 236 pages. When the editors of Chûô kôron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prizewinning...
Set in December 1937 to January 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the story focalizes around the soldiers of Kurata Platoon, tells in detail their war crimes, and delves deep into their psychology before and after conducting merciless killings.
31 lip 2003 · Overview. Contents. About this book. When the editors of Chûô kôron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prizewinning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzô to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war reports then in circulation.
When the editors of Chûô kôron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prizewinning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzô to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war reports then in circulation.
