Chapters 18, 21 Claude Debussy, La Mer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOCucJw7iT8
Chapter 19 Kurosawa Akira’s film Shubun [Scandal]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sVVaPCP6lc
Chapter 19 Misora Hibari sings ‘Shina no yoru’ [‘China Night’]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63mZal2YNO0
Chapter 19 Kokyu recital of ‘Stairway to Heaven’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDXyjUVl2ak
Chapter 20 Yves Montand sings ‘Barbara’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW8kS7zjpyU
Chapter 21 Libertad Lamarque sings ‘Tango Uno’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JZwXiwSIjY
Chapter 23 ‘Itsuki no komoriuta’ [‘Lullaby of Itsuki’]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrKESru3550
Chapter 24 Agustín Lara’s ‘Sombra de mis sombras’ [‘Echoes of My Shadows’]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=die006Q0rQ
Chapter 24 Lena Horne sings ‘Where or When’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRSM3dLSTk
Chapter 25 Billie Holiday sings ‘I’ll be Seeing You’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDlKb2cBAqU
Selected Readings, Films, and Music
Books and Magazine Articles
Adelstein, Jake. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan. New York: Vintage Books, 2009.
Allen, Louis. The End of the War in Asia. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1976.
Anderson, Joseph L., and Donald Richie. The Japanese Film: Art and Industry. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1959.
Bacon, Francis. On the Interpretation of Nature. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2010.
Bashō, Matsuō. A Haiku Journey: Narrow Road to a Far Province. Translated from the Japanese by Dorothy Britton. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1980.
Bashō, Matsuo. The Essential Bashō. Translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill. Boston: Shambhala, 1999.
Baumgardner, Randy W. (ed.). USS Shangri-La CV/CVA/CVS-38. Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 2002.
Benedict, Ruth. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture. New York: World Publishing Company, 1967.
Bernardi, Daniel (ed.). Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Borges, Jorge Luis. A Personal Anthology. Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Kerrigan. New York: Grove Press, 1994.
Bornoff, Nicholas. Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage and Sex in Contemporary Japan. New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
Bourdaghs, Michael. Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical History of J-Pop. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Bradley, James. Flags of Our Fathers. New York: Bantam Books, 2000.
Buruma, Ian. Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes. New York: Meridian, 1985.
Buruma, Ian. The China Lover. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.
Busch, Noel F. Fallen Sun: A Report on Japan. New York: D. Appleton–Century, 1948.
Bush, Lewis. Japanalia. Tokyo: Sanseido, 1938.
Chan, Sucheng. Asian Americans: An Interpretive History. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.
Chan, Yeeshan. Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria. London: Routledge, 2014.
Constantine, Peter. Japan’s Sex Trade: A Journey Through Japan’s Erotic Subcultures. Tokyo: Yenbooks, 1993.
Dazai, Osamu. No Longer Human. Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene. New York: New Directions, 1958.
Dazai, Osamu. The Setting Sun. Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene. New York: New Directions, 1956.
De Barry, William Theodore, and Richard Lufrano. Sources of Chinese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Dore, R. P. City Life in Japan: A Study of a Tokyo Ward. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1958.
Enright, D. J. The World of Dew: Aspects of Living Japan. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1956.
Ericson, Jean E. Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women’s Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
Fairbank, John King. The Great Chinese Revolution, 1800–1985. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
Feifer, George. The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2001.
Galloway, Patrick. Stray Dogs and Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2005.
Gold, Alison Leslie. A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust. Danbury, CT: Scholastic Corp., 2000.
Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman in Heian Japan. Translated from the Japanese by Edward Seidensticker. Boston: Tuttle Company, 2001.
Han, Bangqing. The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai. Edited by Eva Hung. Translated from the Chinese by Eileen Chang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Harden, Fred. ‘Yokosuka: Joyful Kingdom of the Orient.’ Our Navy, October 1957: 20–21, 36–37.
Hattori, Ryutaro. One Hundred Japanese Folk-songs. Tokyo: Ongaku-no-tomo sha, 1960.
Hayashi, Fumiko. Floating Clouds. Translated from the Japanese by Lane Dunlop. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Hibbett, Howard. The Floating World in Japanese Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Historic Decade (1950–1960). New York: Year Inc., 1960.
Hoaglund, Linda. ‘Protest Art in 1950s Japan: The Forgotten Reportage Painters’. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visualizing Cultures, 2012.
Hucker, Charles O. China’s Imperial Past. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1975.
Ishiuchi, Miyako. Club and Courts: Yokosuka Yokohama. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 2007.
Ishiuchi, Miyako. Sweet Home Yokosuka, 1976–1980. New York: PPP Editions and Andrew Roth, 2010.
Ishiuchi, Miyako. Yokosuka Again, 1980–1990. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1998.
Ishiuchi, Miyako. Yokosuka Story. Tokyo: Shashin Tsushinsha, 1979.
Iwasaki, Mineko. Geisha: A Life. New York: Atria Books, 2002.
Johnston, Lt James D. China and Japan: Being a Narrative of the Cruise of the U.S. Steam-Frigate Powhatan in the Years 1857, ’58, ’59, and ’60, Including an Account of the Japanese Embassy to the United States. Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1861.
Kafka, Franz. The Complete Stories. New York: Schocken, 1971. (The passage quoted in the letter in chapter 18 is from ‘The Silence of the Sirens’.)
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Translated from the German by J. M. D. Meiklejohn. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990.
Kaplan, David E., and Alex Dubro. Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Kawabata, Yasunari. Snow Country. Translated from the Japanese by Edward Seidensticker. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1957.
Kawabata, Yasunari. The Sound of the Mountain. Translated from the Japanese by Edward Seidensticker. New York: Knopf, 1970.
Keene, Donald (ed.). Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New York: Grove Press, 1955.
Kinkelaar, Freek. ‘Michi Aoyama and the Hardship of Enka.’ Record Collector (UK), no. 428, June 2014: 70–73.
Kirkup, James. These Horned Islands. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962.
Koestler, Arthur. ‘The Lotus and the Robot.’ Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts, vol. 3, no. 4, March 1961: 4–11.
Kuramoto, Kazuko. Manchurian Legacy: Memoirs of a Japanese Colonist. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999.
Lafcadio Hearn, Patrick. Some New Letters and Writings. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1925.
Lamont-Brown, Raymond. Kempeitai: Japan’s Dreaded Military Police. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998.
Lawson, Capt. Ted W. Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Edited by Robert Considine. New York: Random House, 1943.
Leach, Bernard. Kenzan and His Tradition. London: Faber and Faber, 1966.
Le Carré, John. The Honourable Schoolboy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
Le
vine, Hillel. In Search of Sugihara. New York: Free Press, 1996.
Liu, James J. Y. The Art of Chinese Poetry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Lu, Xun. The True Story of Ah-Q: Bilingual Edition. Taiwan: Jiliu Publishing, 1953.
Maruyama, Paul K. Escape from Manchuria. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2010.
Mason, Richard. The World of Suzie Wong. London: Collins, 1957.
McCain, LTJG John R. (ed.). Sir Shang Goes West: Introducing Far East Cruise of USS Shangri-La and Carrier Air Group 11, March–October 1958. Tokyo: Toppan Publishers, 1958.
Mellen, Joan. The Waves at Genji’s Door: Japan Through Its Cinema. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.
Memories of a City: Yokosuka in Photographs and Contemporary Art. Yokosuka, Japan: Yokosuka Museum of Art, 2013.
Michaelson, John Nairne. Morning, Winter, and Night. New York: Berkley Books, 1958. (Michaelson was a pseudonym of the journalist and playwright Maxwell Anderson.)
Michener, James A. Sayonara: A Japanese-American Love Story. New York: Random House, 1954.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Collected Poems. New York: Harper & Row, 1956.
Mishima, Sumie Seo. The Broader Way: A Woman’s Life in the New Japan. New York: The John Day Co., 1953.
Mishima, Yukio. Death in Midsummer and Other Stories. Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene, Ivan Morris, Geoffrey Sargent, and Edward Seidensticker. New York: New Directions, 1966.
Murasaki, Lady. The Tale of Genji. Volumes 1–6. Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925–33. (The author is also known as Shikibu Murasaki.)
Neruda, Pablo. New Poems (1968–1970). Translated from the Spanish by Ben Belitt. New York: Grove Press, 1972.
Neruda, Pablo. The Captain’s Verses. Translated from the Spanish by Donald D. Walsh. New York: New Directions Books, 1972.
Neruda, Pablo. 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor. Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Tapscott. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.
O’Donnell, Joe. Japan 1945: A US Marine’s Photographs from Ground Zero. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.
Oe, Kenzaburo. A Personal Matter. Translated from the Japanese by John Nathan. New York: Grove Press, 1968.
Ohbayashi, Takashi. Musuko e: Matsuo kazuko no yuigon fuinsarete ita hyakujukyutsu no tegami [To My Son: 119 Letters Written by Matsuo Kazuko to Her Son]. Tokyo: Taeiaiesu, 1999.
Okakura, Kakuzo. The Book of Tea. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1956.
An Outline History of China. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1958.
Pagnamenta, Peter, and Momoko Williams. Sword and Blossom: A British Officer’s Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman. New York: The Penguin Press, 2006.
Paine, Robert Treat, and Alexander Soper. The Art and Architecture of Japan. New York: Penguin Books, 1960.
Patric, John. Why Japan Was Strong. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1943.
Pedigo, M. L., and J. E. Torino (eds). USS Shangri-La CVA-38: Far East Cruise 1959. Tokyo: Toppan Publishing, 1959.
Poems of Solitude. Translated from the Chinese by Jerome Ch’en and Michael Bullock. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1960.
Prévert, Jacques. Paroles. Translated from the French by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 2001.
Price, Willard. Journey by Junk: An Adventurous Voyage Through the Inland Sea. New York: The John Day Co., 1953.
Random, Michael. Japan: Strategy of the Unseen: A Guide for Westerners to the Mind of Modern Japan. Translated from the French by Cyprian P. Blamires. Wellingborough: Thorsons Publishing Group, 1987.
Reischauer, Edwin O. The Japanese. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Harvard, 1978.
Reischauer, Edwin O. The United States and Japan. New York: Viking Press, 1962.
Richie, Donald. The Films of Akira Kurosawa. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1984.
Richie, Donald. The Inland Sea. New York: Weatherhill, 1971.
Richie, Donald. The Japan Journals, 1947–2004. Edited by Leza Lowitz. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2005.
Richie, Donald. This Scorching Earth. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1956.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Selected Poems. Translated from the German by C. F. MacIntyre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964.
Rossiter, Dr Frederick M. The Torch of Life: A Key to Sex Harmony. New York: Eugenics Publishing Co., 1939.
Saga, Junichi. Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan’s Underworld. Translated from the Japanese by John Bester. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1991.
Saikaku, Ihara. Five Women Who Loved Love. Translated from the Japanese by William Theodore De Barry. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1956.
Sann, Paul. The Angry Decade: The Sixties. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.
Scott, George Ryley. Far Eastern Sex Life. London: Gerald G. Swan, 1943.
Senryu: Japanese Satirical Verses. Translated from the Japanese by R. H. Blyth. Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1949.
Shōnagon, Sei. The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon. Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1928.
Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.
Strong, Anna Louise. The Chinese Conquer China. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949.
Sugihara, Yukiko. Visas for Life: Chiune Sugihara. Sacramento, CA: Edu-Comm Plus, 1995.
Tan, Daniela. ‘Literature and the Trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.’ The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 12, issue 40, no. 3, 6 October 2014.
Tanizaki, Junichirō. Naomi. Translated from the Japanese by Anthony H. Chambers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
Tanizaki, Junichirō. Seven Japanese Tales. Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett. New York: Knopf, 1963.
Tatlow, Didi Kirsten. ‘A New Look at Japan’s Unit 731 Wartime Atrocities and a U.S. Cover-Up.’ The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 13, issue 44, no.3, 16 November 2015.
Tōmatsu, Shōmei. Chewing Gum and Chocolate. New York: Aperture Press, 2014. (Photographs of the US occupation, including Yokosuka, 1959.)
Turnbull, Stephen. Samurai Women, 1184–1877. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2010.
Valley, David J. Gaijin Shogun: General Douglas A. MacArthur, Stepfather of Postwar Japan. San Diego, CA: The Sektor Company, 2000.
Watts, Alan W. The Way of Zen. New York: Pantheon Books, 1957.
White, Theodore H. China: The Roots of Madness. New York: W. W. Norton, 1968.
Whiting, Robert. Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999.
Wildes, Harry Emerson. Typhoon in Tokyo: The Occupation and Its Aftermath. New York: Macmillan, 1954.
Yapp, Nick. 1950s: The Hutton Getty Picture Collection. Cologne, Germany: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998.
Films
After the Rain [Ame Ageru]. Koizumi Takashi (dir.). Asmik Ace, 1999.
Black River [Kuroi kawa]. Kobayashi Masaki (dir.). Shochiku, 1956.
Black Sun [Kuroi taiyo]. Kurehara Koreyoshi (dir.). Nikkatsu, 1964.
Crazed Fruit [Kurutta kajitsu]. Nakahira Kō (dir.). Nikkatsu, 1956.
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams [Zubekō banchō: zange no neuchi mo nai]. Yamaguchi Kazuhiko (dir.). Toei, 1970.
Desperado Outpost [Dokuritsu Gurentai]. Okamoto Kihachi (dir.). Toho, 1959.
Even Parting Is Enjoyable [Wakare mo tanoshi]. Naruse Mikio (dir.). Toho, 1947.
Floating Clouds [Ukigumo]. Naruse Mikio (dir.). Toho, 1955.
Gate of Flesh [Nikutai no mon]. Suzuki Seijun (dir.). Nikkatsu, 1964.
Girl Boss Revenge [Sukeban]. Yamaguchi Kazuhiko (dir.). Toei, 1973.
The Great Beauty [La Grande Bellezza]. Paolo Sorrentino (dir.). Indigo Film, 2013.
A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess [Nippon sengo shi: Madamu Onboro no seikatsu]. Imamura Shohei (dir.). Toho, 1970.
The House of Bamboo. Samuel Fuller (dir.). Twentieth Century Fox, 1955.
The Human Condit
ion, Parts 1–6 [Ningen no joken]. Kobayashi Masaki (dir.). Shochiku, 1959–61.
I Am Waiting [Ore wa matteru ze]. Kurehara Koreyoshi (dir.). Nikkatsu, 1957.
The Inland Sea. Lucille Carra (dir.). Travelfilm Company, 1991.
The Insect Woman [Nippon konchūki]. Imamura Shohei (dir.). Nikkatsu, 1963.
Intentions of Murder [Akai satsui]. Imamura Shohei (dir.). Nikkatsu/Toho, 1964.
In the Realm of the Senses [Ai no koriida]. Oshima Nagisa (dir.). Argos Films, 1976. (The story of Abe Sada and Kichi, chapter 22.)
A Japanese Tragedy [Nihon no higeki]. Kinoshita Keisuke (dir.). Shochiku, 1953.
Japanese War Bride. King Vidor (dir.). Twentieth Century Fox, 1952.
Late Chrysanthemums [Bangiku]. Naruse Mikio (dir.). Toho, 1954.
The Makioka Sisters [Sasameyuki]. Ichikawa Kon (dir.). Toho, 1983.
The Naked Island [Hadaka no shima]. Shindo Kaneto (dir.). Toho, 1960.
Navy Wife. Edward Bernds (dir.). Universal/Allied Artists, 1956.
One Wonderful Sunday [Subarashiki nichiyōbi]. Kurosawa Akira (dir.). Toho, 1947.
Pigs and Battleships [Buta to gunkan]. Imamura Shohei (dir.). Nikkatsu, 1961.
Rashomon [Rashōmon]. Kurosawa Akira (dir.). Daiei, 1950.
Red Silk Gambler [Hijirimen bakuto]. Ishii Teruo (dir.). Toei, 1972.
Rusty Knife [Sabita naifu]. Masuda Toshio (dir.). Nikkatsu, 1958.
Sands of Iwo Jima. Allan Dwan (dir.). Universal Studios, 1949.
Sayonara. Joshua Logan (dir.). Warner Brothers, 1957.
Scandal [Shūbun]. Kurosawa Akira (dir.). Shochiku, 1950.
Story of a Prostitute [Shunpuden]. Suzuki Seijun (dir.). Nikkatsu, 1965.
Street of Shame [Akasen chitai]. Mizoguchi Kenji (dir.). Daiei, 1956.
Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness, How a Heroic Japanese Diplomat Saved Jewish Refugees in World War Two. Robert Kirk (dir.). WGBH/PBS, 2005.
The Thick-Walled Room [Kabe atsuki heya]. Kobayashi Masaki (dir.). Shochiku, 1956.
Tower of Lilies [Himeyuri no tō]. Imai Tadashi (dir.). Toei, 1953.
To Whom It May Concern: Ku Shen’s Journey. Brian Jamieson (dir.). Virgil Films, 2010. (Docudrama about the actress Nancy Kwan, star of The World of Suzie Wong.)
Visas and Virtue: A Short Film Inspired by the True Story of Chiune Sugihara. Chris Tashima (dir.). Cedar Grove Productions, 1997. (Winner of the Oscar for Live Action Short Film in 1998 at the 70th Academy Awards.)
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