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100 1 $aKiyosawa, Kiyoshi,$d1890-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86128117
240 10 $aAnkoku nikki.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98036834
245 12 $aA diary of darkness :$bthe wartime diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi /$cforeword by Marius Jansen ; edited and with an introduction by Eugene Soviak ; translated by Eugene Soviak and Kamiyama Tamie.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $axx, 391 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [367]-369) and index.
520 $aA Diary of Darkness is one of the most important and compelling documents of wartime Japan. Between 1942 and 1945, the liberal journalist Kiyosawa Kiyoshi (1890-1945) kept at great personal risk a diary of his often subversive social and political observations and his personal struggles. The diary caused a sensation when it was published in Japan in 1948 and is today regarded as a classic. This is the first time it has appeared in English.
520 8 $aKiyosawa was an American-educated commentator on politics and foreign affairs who became increasingly isolated in Japan as militant nationalists rose to power. He began the diary as notes for a history of the war, but it soon became an "inadvertent autobiography" and a refuge for the bitter criticism of Japanese authoritarianism that he had to repress publicly. It chronicles growing bureaucratic control over everything from the press to people's clothing.
520 8 $aKiyosawa pours scorn on such leaders as Premiers Tojo and Koiso. He laments the rise of hysterical propaganda and relates his own and his friends' struggles to avoid arrest. He writes in gripping detail about increasing poverty, crime, and disorder. He records the sentiments of the local barber as faithfully as those of senior politicians. And all the while he traces the gradual disintegration of Japan's war effort and the looming certainty of defeat.
600 10 $aKiyosawa, Kiyoshi,$d1890-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86128117
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, Japanese.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113911
650 0 $aJournalists$zJapan$vDiaries.
700 1 $aSoviak, Eugene,$d1927-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98036831
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