Sugamo diary /
Ryōichi Sasakawa ; translated by Ken Hijino.
- London : HUSRST & Company, c2010.
- xxxi, 398 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Translated from Japanese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1945 / 1946 / 1945 / 18th December (addressed to "My dear friends") / 25th December (to "Dear all") / 1946 / 1st January (to "My dear friends") / 8th January (to "All") / 8th January (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / 21st January (to "Dear All") / 12th February (to "Itakura Yasaburii") / 18th February (to "My dear friends") / 18th February (to "Sasakawa office") / 25th February (to "My dear friends") / 3rd March (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / 11th March (to "My dear friends") / 25th March (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright Machine generated contents note: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 1st April (to "My dear friends") / 8th April (to "Sasakawa Shizue"?) / 15th April (to "My dear friends" including copy of a letter to President Truman) / 22nd April (to "Dear all") / 29th April (to "My dear friends") / 30th April (to "General MacArthur") / 6th May (to "Dear mother and friends") / 18th May (to "My Dear Friends [Mori Mainichi Shimbun deputy manager") / 27th May (to "Dear All") / 3rd June (to "Fuji Yoshio and others") / 3rd June (to "Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru") / 3rd June (to "Prison director and chaplain") / 10th June (to "Miyake Shotaré") / 10th June (to "Ataka") / 10th June (to "Toyokawa villagers") / John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 24th June (to "Dear All") / 24th June (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / 30th June (to "Truman and Acheson") / 1st July (to "Nosaka Sanzo, Shiga Yoshio, Tokuda Kyilichi") / 8th July (to "Secretary-General of the Liberal Party and others") / 8th July (to "Dear All") / 15th July (to "Sasakawa RyOhei") / 22nd July (to "My dear friends") / 29th July (to "Yamanishi, Minami, Uchiyama") / 5th August (to "My dear friends") / 5th August (to "Hayashi Joji Chief Cabinet Secretary") / 7th August (to "Miles W. Vaughn") / 15th August (to "Prison director") / 19th August (to "Dear All") / 19th August (to "Prison Director") / 2nd September (to "Dear All") / John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 19th September (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / 30th September (to "Itakura Yasaburo and Sasakawa Shizue") / 12th October (to "Director") / 14th October (to "Fuji Yoshio and Saskawa Shizue") / 21st October (to "Yoshimatsu Masakatsu and Sasakawa Shizue") / 28th October (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / 23rd November (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / 16th December (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / 23rd December (to "Fuji Yoshio and Sasakwa Shizue") / 1947 / 6th January (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / 12th January (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / 20th January (to "Itakura Yasaburo") / 26th January (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / 14th April (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / 29th April (to "Itakura Yasaburii") / John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 5th May (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / 7th May (to "Edward") / 10th June (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / 1st July (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / 11th August (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / 26th August (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / 15th September (to "Fuji Yoshio") / 30th September (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / ? December (To "US military") / ? December (To "Sasakawa Shizue") / 1948 / 5th January (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / 19th January (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / January (to "Fuji Yoshio") / January (to "Matsumoto Jiichirô") / 9th February (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 10th February (to "Teijô") / 19th April (to "Saskawa Shizue") / 10th May (to "Saskawa Shizue") / 24th May (to "Saskawa Shizue") / 28th June (to "Saskawa Shizue") / 26th July (to "Shiga Yoshio") / 10th August (unknown address) / 16th August (to "Saskawa Shizue") / 23rd August (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / 19th November (to "Sasakawa Shizue?") / 6th December (to "Saskawa Shizue") / 20th December (to "Saskawa Shizue") / Dates Unknown / (to "Tomita") / (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. (to "Elder Sister") / (to Sasakawa Shizue?) / (to "Fuji Yoshio") / (to "Fuji Yoshio, Itakura Yasaburô, Fujiwara Tsunekichi") / (to "Okada Katsuo") / (to "Fuji Yoshio and others") / (to "Fujiwara Tsunekichi") / (to "Shôji Keizaburô") / (to "Yoshimatsu Masakatsu") / (to "Itakura Yasaburô") / (to "Kikuchi Toichirô") / (to "Fuji Yoshio") / (to "Fuji Yoshio") / (to "Fuji Yoshio and others") / John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright -- John Swenson-Wright. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104.
"Sasakawa Tyoichi's Sugamo Diary is a fascinating document, and Sasakawa is a fascinating person. His prison-based reflections and attitude toward communists and his American captors, as well as toward fellow Japanese citizens, including the emperor and other class-A war criminals, all make for fascinating reading."-John Breen, editor Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan's Past. Sasakawa Ryoichi was a wealthy business tycoon, statesman, nationalist leader, philanthropist, and suspected war criminal. Many have also cast him as a Japanese don, power broker, political fixer, and right-wing godfather. In these diaries and letters, written by Sasakawa himself, a strikingly different picture emerges, one that reveals a man fighting to adhere to his convictions within an ethical system that placed Japan's well-being above all other concerns. From 1945 to 1948, Sasakawa was imprisoned in Sugamo with a host of other class-A war criminals. His path to incarceration was uniquely dramatic: he volunteered for indictment in order to protect the emperor and the nation from the consequences of victor's justice. Sasakawa's motivations are apparent in his writing, along with his relentless criticism of Japan's wartime leaders, in which he challenges the behavior of the Tokyo court and warns against the adoption of postwar Japanese communism. Sasakawa instead proposed that Japan pursue friendly relations with the West, including the United States. After his release in 1948, he founded what is now the Nippon Foundation, a philanthropic body that became, under his leadership, Japan's largest charitable organizations. Through an intimate encounter with Sasakawa's thoughts, struggles, and philosophy, this vibrant volume introduces one of the twentieth century's most influential political figures. Translater: Ken Hijino earned his doctorate in Japanese politics in Japanese politics from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. --Book Jacket.