Word: katsunori
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...story, as told by a simple Japanese infantryman in letters to his family, has a naive charm until readers recall that "Ashihei Hino" is really Katsunori Tamai, known to a highbrow handful of Japanese readers for his The Warship on the Mountain, The Fish with Poison, for which in the past two years he has won Japan's highest Akutagawa Prize for literature. Translater is pacifist Birth-Controller Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto, who translated the book out of "deep devotion to my country...
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