No comments about Kokoro: Japanese Inner Life Hints.

No comments about Japanese Business Pioneers.

No comments about Wake Island: The Story of a Civilian POW at Niigata, Japan 1941-1945.

No comments about Biography Of Princess Yasha 4 Beauty Of The Shadows, Come And Go - Rocket City Blues (Non-sporran) Japanese Language Book.

No comments about Kokoro: Japanese Inner Life Hints.

No comments about Fragments of Rainbows.

No comments about 8000 Feet Over Hell: 35 Combat Missions Against Japanese TargetsIn the B-29 Superfortress.

2 comments about Isamu Noguchi (Asian Americans of Achievement).

1. This book is filled with examples of Noguchi's artwork, mostly sculpture. I am currently enrolled in a Sculpture Class and found viewing the pictures a helpful reference for the sculptures I produced. It is most important as an artist to be influenced by other artists, and I feel that this book was successful in doing just that.



2. Greatest Hoosier artist ever? ... is a leading question. The sadly neglected tale of a shy 13 year-old boy traveling alone across the sea and the landscape to LaPorte, Indiana for early schooling and known there as "Sam Gilmour", was later to become universally known as one of the world's greatest artists -- Isamu Noguchi (a future Jeopardy question?).
   
   Accessible, significant, colorful, inexpensive, the Modern Masters volume by Bruce Altshuler is easily the most accessible guide to Noguchi's works of a lifetime. This edition is distinguished by large illustrations, many in color and stylishly presented, yet in a less expensive paperback format. It is perhaps the best primer for recognizing the historic significance of the wide ranging yet simple, spiritual aesthetic gifts from this complex soul to the rest of us.

1 comments about Savage Days, Savage Nights.

1. Soka Gakkai's youth division has compiled in Japanese fifty-six volumes of accounts of Japanese wartime suffering. The English version includes selections from the first twenty-eight of these to create a single gripping book.

   This is not an attempt to plead a national cause; the editors clearly realize that the horror of war knows no nationality. They have been able to persuade the contributors to this volume of one fundamental truth, which is the core of the Buddhism in which they believe: that suffering is born from ignorance. In the hope of dispelling the ignorance of the young about what war really is, these victims have consented to relive their tragic experiences and commit them to paper. Their hope is that this knowledge, once shared, will help to prevent a repeat of the most senseless and savage of all human activities.

1 comments about Clinging to hope: I survived the Japanese women's camp.

1. One of the most comprehensive personal narratives of the Japanese/Indo POW experience relayed through the eyes of a young Indo woman.
   
   This type of narrative is normally read by those with a specific interest in the Indo experience of Japanese occupation, and this one is very satisfying in the detail it gives of what happened to those captured, those left behind, the survivors and the participants in the war drama.
   
   It would have benefitted from having an editor tighten the story, a spell check and a smaller font, but for content and story line it was really enlightening about the period in question, which is why I searched it out and read it.