YEARNING JAPANESE
Roland Kelts
Chronicles of My Life:
An American in the Heart of Japan
by Donald Keene
Columbia University Press
$27.95 List Price
One-third of the way into Japan scholar Donald Keene’s slim, modest memoir, he recounts the predicament faced by his Japanese professor at Columbia University in the years following World War II. The professor was depressed by Japan’s defeat, Keene writes, “but he probably would have been equally depressed if America had lost the war. . . . His was the tragedy that anyone who loves two countries may experience.”
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