NUST Institutions Library Catalogue

Translated from Japanese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1945 / John Swenson-Wright -- 1946 / John Swenson-Wright -- 1945 / John Swenson-Wright -- 1. 18th December (addressed to "My dear friends") / John Swenson-Wright -- 2. 25th December (to "Dear all") / John Swenson-Wright -- 1946 / John Swenson-Wright -- 3. 1st January (to "My dear friends") / John Swenson-Wright -- 4. 8th January (to "All") / John Swenson-Wright -- 5. 8th January (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 6. 21st January (to "Dear All") / John Swenson-Wright -- 7. 12th February (to "Itakura Yasaburii") / John Swenson-Wright -- 8. 18th February (to "My dear friends") / John Swenson-Wright -- 9. 18th February (to "Sasakawa office") / John Swenson-Wright -- 10. 25th February (to "My dear friends") / John Swenson-Wright -- 11. 3rd March (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 12. 11th March (to "My dear friends") / John Swenson-Wright -- 13. 25th March (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright

14. 1st April (to "My dear friends") / John Swenson-Wright -- 15. 8th April (to "Sasakawa Shizue"?) / John Swenson-Wright -- 16. 15th April (to "My dear friends" including copy of a letter to President Truman) / John Swenson-Wright -- 17. 22nd April (to "Dear all") / John Swenson-Wright -- 18. 29th April (to "My dear friends") / John Swenson-Wright -- 19. 30th April (to "General MacArthur") / John Swenson-Wright -- 20. 6th May (to "Dear mother and friends") / John Swenson-Wright -- 21. 18th May (to "My Dear Friends [Mori Mainichi Shimbun deputy manager") / John Swenson-Wright -- 22. 27th May (to "Dear All") / John Swenson-Wright -- 23. 3rd June (to "Fuji Yoshio and others") / John Swenson-Wright -- 24. 3rd June (to "Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru") / John Swenson-Wright -- 25. 3rd June (to "Prison director and chaplain") / John Swenson-Wright -- 26. 10th June (to "Miyake Shotaré") / John Swenson-Wright -- 27. 10th June (to "Ataka") / John Swenson-Wright -- 28. 10th June (to "Toyokawa villagers") / John Swenson-Wright

29. 24th June (to "Dear All") / John Swenson-Wright -- 30. 24th June (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 31. 30th June (to "Truman and Acheson") / John Swenson-Wright -- 32. 1st July (to "Nosaka Sanzo, Shiga Yoshio, Tokuda Kyilichi") / John Swenson-Wright -- 33. 8th July (to "Secretary-General of the Liberal Party and others") / John Swenson-Wright -- 34. 8th July (to "Dear All") / John Swenson-Wright -- 35. 15th July (to "Sasakawa RyOhei") / John Swenson-Wright -- 36. 22nd July (to "My dear friends") / John Swenson-Wright -- 37. 29th July (to "Yamanishi, Minami, Uchiyama") / John Swenson-Wright -- 38. 5th August (to "My dear friends") / John Swenson-Wright -- 39. 5th August (to "Hayashi Joji Chief Cabinet Secretary") / John Swenson-Wright -- 40. 7th August (to "Miles W. Vaughn") / John Swenson-Wright -- 41. 15th August (to "Prison director") / John Swenson-Wright -- 42. 19th August (to "Dear All") / John Swenson-Wright -- 43. 19th August (to "Prison Director") / John Swenson-Wright -- 44. 2nd September (to "Dear All") / John Swenson-Wright

45. 19th September (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 46. 30th September (to "Itakura Yasaburo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 47. 12th October (to "Director") / John Swenson-Wright -- 48. 14th October (to "Fuji Yoshio and Saskawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 49. 21st October (to "Yoshimatsu Masakatsu and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 50. 28th October (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 51. 23rd November (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 52. 16th December (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 53. 23rd December (to "Fuji Yoshio and Sasakwa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 1947 / John Swenson-Wright -- 54. 6th January (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 55. 12th January (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 56. 20th January (to "Itakura Yasaburo") / John Swenson-Wright -- 57. 26th January (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 58. 14th April (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 59. 29th April (to "Itakura Yasaburii") / John Swenson-Wright

60. 5th May (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 61. 7th May (to "Edward") / John Swenson-Wright -- 62. 10th June (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 63. 1st July (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 64. 11th August (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 65. 26th August (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 66. 15th September (to "Fuji Yoshio") / John Swenson-Wright -- 67. 30th September (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 68. ? December (To "US military") / John Swenson-Wright -- 69. ? December (To "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 1948 / John Swenson-Wright -- 70. 5th January (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 71. 19th January (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 72. January (to "Fuji Yoshio") / John Swenson-Wright -- 73. January (to "Matsumoto Jiichirô") / John Swenson-Wright -- 74. 9th February (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright

75. 10th February (to "Teijô") / John Swenson-Wright -- 76. 19th April (to "Saskawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 77. 10th May (to "Saskawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 78. 24th May (to "Saskawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 79. 28th June (to "Saskawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 80. 26th July (to "Shiga Yoshio") / John Swenson-Wright -- 81. 10th August (unknown address) / John Swenson-Wright -- 82. 16th August (to "Saskawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 83. 23rd August (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 84. 19th November (to "Sasakawa Shizue?") / John Swenson-Wright -- 85. 6th December (to "Saskawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 86. 20th December (to "Saskawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- Dates Unknown / John Swenson-Wright -- 87. (to "Tomita") / John Swenson-Wright -- 88. (to "Okada Katsuo and Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 89. (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright -- 90. (to "Sasakawa Shizue") / John Swenson-Wright

91. (to "Elder Sister") / John Swenson-Wright -- 92. (to Sasakawa Shizue?) / John Swenson-Wright -- 93. (to "Fuji Yoshio") / John Swenson-Wright -- 94. (to "Fuji Yoshio, Itakura Yasaburô, Fujiwara Tsunekichi") / John Swenson-Wright -- 95. (to "Okada Katsuo") / John Swenson-Wright -- 96. (to "Fuji Yoshio and others") / John Swenson-Wright -- 97. (to "Fujiwara Tsunekichi") / John Swenson-Wright -- 98. (to "Shôji Keizaburô") / John Swenson-Wright -- 99. (to "Yoshimatsu Masakatsu") / John Swenson-Wright -- 100. (to "Itakura Yasaburô") / John Swenson-Wright -- 101. (to "Kikuchi Toichirô") / John Swenson-Wright -- 102. (to "Fuji Yoshio") / John Swenson-Wright -- 103. (to "Fuji Yoshio") / John Swenson-Wright -- 104. (to "Fuji Yoshio and others") / John Swenson-Wright.

"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.