Author: Bunroku, Shishi; Iwata, Toyoo; Riggs, Lynne E. (translator).
Title: School of Freedom [Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies].
Description: Ann Arbor, MI Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2006. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 256 pp. A humorous novel set in 1950's Tokyo (Japan), during a time when the Japanese were adjusting to the defeat of war, plus the new freedoms arising from the culture of the occupation forces (particularly American), left-wing trade unionism, frank literature, black marketeers, etc. The author, Shishi Bunroku, is a pseudonym (pen-name) for Toyoo Iwata. ISBN: 1929280408

Keywords: general fiction, humour, humor, comedy, society, 1950s, asia, japan, tokyo 1929280408


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