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³ I leafed through wartime issues of three important American literary periodicals, Harper's, Nation, and New Yorker (roughly parallel to Bungei Shunjū, Kaizō, and Shinchō), but found no “patriotic” poetry or prose of the kind which regularly appeared in the best Japanese magazines.

⁴ Susumu, Odagiri, “Zoku jūnigatsu yōka no kiroku” [“A Record of December Eighth, Continued”], Bungaku, XXX (04 1962), 104.Google Scholar

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⁴⁹ Ibid, pp. 195, 262.

⁵⁰ The Japanese fondness for keeping diaries, a tradition dating back to the Heian Period, was so strong that even writers fully aware of the danger that they might be searched continued to record their daily thoughts. “I shall have to be careful with this diary,” wrote Takami Jun as he began what was to develop into a 3,000 page diary for 1945 alonel See his “Ankoku jidai no Kamakura bunshi” [“A Kamakura Writer during the Dark Ages”], Bungei Shunjū, XXXVI (07 1958).Google Scholar

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⁵⁴ Among the author's other indictments we find:

“Villains who in place of the independence they promised the Philippines,

Forced them to buy electric phonographs, refrigerators and sewing machines.”

⁵⁵ Tanaca Kōtarō Zenshū, III, 257–258.Google Scholar

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