Enduring Postwar

Yasuoka Shotaro (1920–2013) was perfectly situated to become Japan''s premier chronicler of the Showa period (1926–89). Over fifty years as a writer, Yasuoka produced stories, novels, plays, and essays, as well as monumental histories that connected his own life to those of his ancestors. He was also the only major Japanese writer to live in the American South during the Civil Rights Movement, whe...