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The East-West controversy over the significance and relevance of Lafcadio Hearn as a writer, thinker and interpreter of Japan continues unabated. Not surprisingly, the centenary of his death in 2004 presented an occasion for renewed debate and discussion by both sides of the divide. This volume, edited by one of Hearn's leading contemporary apologists, in which he is also a significant contributor, presents twenty-two diverse essays drawn from over seventy papers delivered at conferences held in four cities in Japan in 2004, as well as at other international conferences that took place...

Introductory chapters cover Japan's historic love-hate relationship with China, then an in-depth analysis of three themes: Japan's turn to the West; Japan's return to the East; From war to peace. The book explains why Japanese moern writers oscillate between East and West.

Lafcadio Hearn, who died in Japan in 1904, used to be considered one of the best Western writers on Japan in his generation and was widely (and continues to be) admired by the Japanese. Formerly a journalist in Cincinnati renowned for his writing skills in recording horror and the macabre, he came to be known as the great interpreter of Japan. Even today, every Japanese schoolchild knows Koizumi Yakumo (his Japanese name) because they all learn from his short stories in secondary school.

It was Louis Allen's work on Japan which dominated his prodigious output as a scholar, researcher and writer and which received greatest attention internationally. This collection of his writings focuses entirely on his principal fields of research, viz, Japan and the Pacific War, the post-war conflicts in Burma, Malaya and Indochina, and the immediate post-war years in the context of Japan, security and reconciliation. Importantly, in addition to the 24 essays brought together here from both known and unknown sources, we are pleased to publish for the first time Louis Allen's own undated...