War and Conscience in Japan is a collection of works by Nambara Shigeru, a prominent scholar, political thinker, and public figure in twentieth-century Japan. Among other books such as Ienaga Saburō's Japan's Past, Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), and Takeyama Michio and Minear's The Scars of War: Tokyo during World War II (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), this volume belongs to the continuing effort of Richard Minear, the editor and translator, to make available in English different Japanese voices on the Asia-Pacific War and its memory. This is not a comprehensive anthology of Nambara's works, but a careful selection of his writings and speeches, both public and private, between 1936 and 1963. It does, however, provide a unique lens through which readers can view Nambara's intellectual resistance to the totalitarian state and his anguish over the war.
The introduction of the book offers...
