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From the Introduction: The Company We Kept highlights the patriarchal manipulation by Zonian men of a group of young women athletes whose swimming and diving hopes to gain a place on the 1948 Olympics American team are threatened by the twists and turns of a trial wherein two criminals must be punished, accused and accuser, for unacceptable "miscegenation." This fictional trial fills in the bare outline of a real legal procedure in a Zone historic trial, highly problematic, which led to shifts in the political terrain. In the work of imagination the white woman's retraction of the allegation...

This collection of scholarly papers includes translations as well as some personal, creative writing, and reflects the range and scope of Professor Viglielmo's interests: from Japanese literature and Japanese philosophy, to poetry and political activism. This is shown in the selection of papers: Incunabulum; Close Encounter; My Spiritual Odyssey; Anatomy of a Poem; My Encounter with Nishida's Philosophy; Tanabe Hajime's Existence, Love, and Praxis; Tanabe's Dialectic of Christianity; Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the End of the War; Reflections on the Postwar Japanese Peace...

Japan's preeminent modern novelist, Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), may be better known for his works of fiction Kokoro, Botchan, and I Am a Cat, than for his last novel, Meian, uncompleted at his death, which remains something of an enigma -- a neglected masterpiece. A simple plot summary doesn't do it justice: the marriage of Tsuda and O-Nobu is threatened when Kobayashi and others begin dropping hints about another woman. Tsuda departs on a trip to rendezvous with the woman in question, Kiyoko, his former fiancee. The novel is a study of human character, a marriage tested, and what it means to...