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(★)(1.A newspaperman, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and the 124th Emperor of Japan himself -these are the fascinating heroes of Gibney´s brilliant book about modern Japan. Strongly individual, everyone of them, the five yet share the common inheritance of Japan´s precocious but unstable past. Through their lives and attitudes, Gibney gives us an invaluable analysis of this new sovereign nation so suddenly thrown into the world´s power conflicts. He helps us understand the historical and social forces which make Japan what she is today- the old contracts and loyalties from which each of the Five Gentlemen is struggling to free himself and his country. Their courageous efforts to weld a new Japan from the remains of the old society, and to come to terms with the present, is as exciting as it is important. For, should they succeed, great hope for the free world lies in their success. 2.Frank Gibney had his first brush with Japan by accident, when the Navy sent him to study Japanese during World War II. Since then he has spent six of the last ten years in intimate association with Japan and its people. At twenty-eight, he is one of our most knowledgeable authorities on modern Japan. Since he speaks the language well, he has been able to get far beneath the formal surface which is so often presented by the people of this country to Westerners. During the war Gibney interrogated prisoners of war in the Pacific, and later served with the Occupation in Japan. In 1949, after a year and a half as a correspondent in Europe, he went back to Japan to head the Tokyo bureau of Time Magazine. Gibney, and three others, were the first correspondents to get to Korea, on the outbreak of war there. He was the first casualty on the American side, when he was wounded making his escape from Seoul. He later commuted between Japan and the Korean front, before returning to the United States. A brilliant mind, a sense of humor, and a personal concern for the hidden realities of modern Japanese life have all contributed to make this the most readable and the most human picture we have of Japan today.) |
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