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Hara Tamiki\u27s Land of My Heart\u27s Desire
Hara Tamiki\u27s Land of My Heart\u27s Desire is one of the most hauntingly beautiful works of modern Japanese literature. It is also one of the most difficult. The problems lie less in the words themselves than in context and meaning. This essay offers a brief biographical sketch of Hara Tamiki, a new translation, and commentary
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Tokyo University and the War
Tachibana Takashi analyzes the impact of World War II on Tokyo University and Tokyo University\u27s impact on the war: attacks from outside, faculty politics and purges, institutional expansion, the sacrifice of liberal arts students to the war machine, and heroic dissenting professors who tried in vain to bring the war to an early end.
Translated and edited by Richard H. Minearhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/history_oapubs/1000/thumbnail.jp