Five Gentlemen of Japan

A newspaperman, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and the 124th Emperor of Japan himself—these are the fascinating heroes of Gibney''s brilliant book about modern Japan. Strongly individual, every one of them, the five yet share the common inheritance of Japan''s precocious but unstable past.

Through their lives and attitudes, Gibney gives us an invaluable analysis of this new sove...