Japanese Writers and the West

The other volumes of British educated Okada's (English, Immaculate Heart U., Kagoshima, Japan) trilogy, Edmund Blunden and Japan and Western Writers in Japan, concern western writers in Japan. Here she examines the impact on six Japanese writers of their time in Europe and the US, focusing on the comparative degree to which their writing and lives were affected by the group-dominated mentality of Japan and by western individualism. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR