Kyotaro NISHIMURA's "the Pacific War" NovelsCriticizing <i>Tokko</i> Suicide Attacks

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  • 西村京太郎〈太平洋戦争もの〉の特攻批判

Abstract

Kyotaro NISHIMURA (1930-2022), one of Japan's greatest mystery novelists, was also one of the last students at Tokyo Army Cadet School, who would have died young for the Emperor if the war against the Allies had continued. Before revealing this fact in his autobiography The War for a 15 Year-Old (15-Sai no Sensou) in 2017, NISHIMURA had got more and more earnestly engaged in writing novels about the Pacific War, where he severely criticized General Tojo again and again as a vicious leader of the Japanese Military as well as its inhuman Tokko suicide attacks, while idealizing American counterpart's humanitarianism. Which shows that NISHIMURA proved to be a typical Japanese intellectual deeply influenced by American ideals. In fact, in his last novel published in August, 2022, he confessed that Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) was his favorite movie.

Journal

  • The Gunma-Kosen Review

    The Gunma-Kosen Review 42 (0), 15-28, 2023

    National Institute of Technology(KOSEN), Gunma College

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  • CRID
    1390018207786983168
  • DOI
    10.51030/krev.42.0_15
  • ISSN
    24339776
    02886936
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
  • Abstract License Flag
    Allowed

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