Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize, and the subject of an acclaimed film by Ichikawa Kon, Harp of Burma is the story of a company of Japanese soldiers who are losing a desperat
Takeyama Michio, a Japanese prep school teacher and author of the novel Harp of Burma, was 37 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Translated into English for the first time, ten of his essays, written d