One Man's Justice
by Akira Yoshimura
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition (ex-library)/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151006393
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006397
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Synopsis
Japan just after World War II is the setting for this searching and provocative novel. Takuya, an officer in the former Imperial Army, is only mildly surprised when he receives a postcard asking him to report to the U.S. Regional Command Headquarters in Tokyo. He assumes that the occupying authorities have learned of his involvement in the execution of American prisoners-of-war. Now he is a fugitive in his own country. As he travels on crowded trains through a land of defeat, humiliation, and hunger, he is haunted by dark memories of the war. With newspapers denouncing the Imperial Army and widespread talk of prosecution for war crimes, he fears that his past will be revealed. And yet Takuya doesn't feel like a criminal. Why should an honest and dutiful man like him be prosecuted by the very people who dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, slaughtering thousands? As he soon learns, truth and justice have no place in a world where the victors determine the rules of the game. One Man's Justice is an unnerving story of timeless relevance from a master of the psychological novel.
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- Seller
- Turn the Page Books (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 56520
- Title
- One Man's Justice
- Author
- Akira Yoshimura
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition (ex-library)
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English
- ISBN 10
- 0151006393
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006397
- Publisher
- Harcourt Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- BZDB25 Fiction; Japan; 1940s; ISBN: 0151006393 EAN: 9780151006397 Akira Yoshimura One Man's Justice
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