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The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’ destinies are inextricably bound to the fate of the nation. This family’s story that opens the narrative and ties it up, is a very useful apparatus with which to understand the collective psyche of the Japanese people of all epochs.
The narrative succinctly explains the ambivalence of the people about violence and peace, isolationism and going out to the world, social discipline and riotous behavior. The history is replete with incidents of volatility of emotions at both individual and group levels. Several assassinations, suicides, hara kiri and armed rebellion show that a traditional society unable to cope with the forces of change, resorting to these extreme steps. But in the end the resilience of the great race brings new glory for the nation.
The author portrays all war expeditions by Japan with vivid details - the author had been a combatant in WW2. T
