Tokyo Central

A Memoir (Mclellan Book)

by Edward Seidensticker

2002 250 pages eng

"In this memoir, Seidensticker tells of his introduction to Japan at the Navy Japanese Language School in 1942, at the age of twenty-one. He recounts his formative experiences as a young diplomat during the Occupation, his early impressions of the Japanese literary scene and its stormy PEN session m…