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"Just as All Quiet On The Western Front was the first literary bridge between Germany and America after World War I, so Long The Imperial Way was the first between Japan and America since World War II. ""I wrote the book,"" says Hanama Tasaki, ""during the year spent in bed with tuberculosis. It is an amalgam of many moods and aims, one of which was to straighten out the jumbled emotions-predominantly guilt-complex-under which I had labored since the Surrender. . . . The book was also an outlet for the strong yearning for beauty which replaced the great void after the war."" The first novel since after World War II to come from a Japanese soldier and written in English, it is a brilliant, exciting, and illuminating book. In ""Long the Imperial Way"" Hanama Tasaki creates a real, guttural image of war and its impact on soldiers during and after conflict."

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"Born in 1913 on the little island of Maui, Tasaki recollects his boyhood as ""shrouded in a mist of romanticism . . . days of running barefooted along the beach, torch fishing, hunting for shells, playing with children of every race imaginable in an atmosphere of total understanding and friendship."" Later the Tasakis moved to Honolulu where Hanama's schooling wound up at the University of Hawaii-with an intervening year of ""nostalgia and home-sickness"" at Oberlin College in Ohio.In 1936 Tasaki went to Japan ""intending to throw myself bodily into the progressive movement,"" but before long was conscripted into the Imperial Army. After three years' service in China, he returned to Japan, became a newspaper reporter and, at the outbreak of World War II, went to the South Pacific for the Domel News Agency. Again conscripted into the Army in 1942, he served till the war's end."

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