Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War: Letters to the Editor of Asahi Sh [Hardcover]

This acclaimed work is an extraordinary collection of letters written by a wide cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war. SENSO provides the general reader and the specialist with moving, disturbing, startling insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry and its government. It is an invaluable index of Japanese public opinion about the war.A collection of letters written by a cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war. This work provides the general reader and the specialist with insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry and its government.Chapter 1 The Road to War; Chapter 2 Life in the Military; Chapter 3 The China War; Chapter 4 The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; Chapter 5 The War in the Pacific; Chapter 6 The Home Front; Chapter 7 The Bombing of Japan; Chapter 8 We Are All Prisoners; Chapter 9 Japan Under Occupation; Chapter 10 Rethinking the War Experience; Chapter 11 Reassessment: Causes of War;Frank Gibney was born in 1924 and raised in New York City. He graduated from Yale College, in absentia, in 1945. He served in the navy as Lieutenant, USNR, from 1942 to 1946.Through his career, he held the positions of foreign correspondent and associate editor of Time magazine, senior editor of Newsweek, and editor and publisher of Show magazine. Gibney was in charge of Encyclopaedia Britannicas Japanese and East Asian companies from 1966 to 1976 in Tokyo. He was vice chairman, TBS-Britannica, and also vice chairman of Encyclopaedia Britannicas Board of Directors.The author of twelve books, including The Pacific Century; Japan: The Fragile Superpower; and Koreas Quiet Revolution, Mr. Gibney was president of the Pacific Basin Institute in Santa Barbara, California until his delã|