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	Ooka Shohei -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ooka belongs to the group of postwar writers whose (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl) World War II experiences at home and abroad figure prominently in their works.
		In 1958, Ooka veered from his usual subject and produced The Shade of Blossoms (Hanakage) depicting an aging naive night club hostess’ struggle and ultimate demise from the destructive forces of desire and wealth in the decadent 1950’s (additional info and facts about Ginza) Ginza.
		Ooka died on (A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland) Christmas Day, 1988 at the age of 79.
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	Encyclopedia: Ooka Shohei
		Ooka belongs to the group of postwar writers whose World War II experiences at home and abroad figure prominently in their works.
		In 1958, Ooka veered from his usual subject and produced The Shade of Blossoms (Hanakage) depicting an aging naive night club hostess’ struggle and ultimate demise from the destructive forces of desire and wealth in the decadent 1950’s Ginza.
		Again in the late 1960's, Ooka revisited the subject of the Pacific War and the Japanese defeat in the Philippines to produce one of his last books, the detailed historical novel A Record of the Battle of Leyte (Reite senki).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ooka-Shohei (654 words)

	Ooka Shohei かまくら GreenNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ooka Shohei, novelist and critic, was born in Tokyo in 1909.
		Ooka died in 1988 at the age of 79, just as the Showa period was also drawing to a close.
		Ooka first lived in Kamakura in 1936 at a boarding house in Ogigayatsu and then again in 1948, this time at Kobayashi Hideo’s house in Yukinoshita.
	www.city.kamakura.kanagawa.jp /english/bunjin/ooka_e.htm (325 words)

	H-Net Review: Patricia Welch on The Burdens of Survival: Ooka Shohei's Writings on the Pacific War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although Ooka's depression deepened as the situation worsened, it was accompanied, almost paradoxically, by the primal urges of his animal body to survive.
		Ooka himself was acutely aware that fictionalizing his war experiences gave him the leeway to explore his own experiences more fully.
		Ooka's primary concern was to tell the stories of those who died; thus, he focuses primarily on frontline experiences in a way which links these experiences to upper-level decisions, thus presenting defeat from three perspectives: "general, specific, and individual" (p.
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	The Shade of Blossoms - Ooka Shohei
		Ooka describes her life in these later years, her position (like Takashima's) becoming more vulnerable as age creeps up on her.
		Ooka tells this sombre tale well, and it is a good character study of the troubled Yoko.
		Readers are perhaps expected to be familiar with the Japan of this time, as Ooka does not focus as much as might be expected on this fast-changing society; those that aren't might wish for a bit more background and development.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/japanold/ookas.htm (586 words)

	Shohei Ooka -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The Japanese novelist Shohei Ooka is best known for his works depicting the fate of Japanese soldiers during World War II.
		Substantially influenced by the 19th-century French writer Stendhal, Ooka was noted for his insightful commentary on human behavior as well as his carefully crafted prose and graceful literary style.
		Shohei Ooka was born in Tokyo, Japan, on March…
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	The Burdens of Survival: Ooka Shohei's Writings on the Pacific War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although still virtually unknown in the West, Ooka Shohei (1909-1988) is one of Japan's most important and influential writers and social critics.
		Drawing on Robert Jay Lifton's work on traumatic experience and survivor psychology, the book tells the illuminating story of Ooka's arduous journey that began with guilt-ridden survival as a prisoner of war in the Philippines and culminated some twenty-five years later in the fruitful completion of survivor mission.
		After a quarter century of sustained literary struggle, the author argues, Ooka came to terms with and atoned for his own battlefield conduct and exposed the problematic legacies of war while providing an inspiring microcosmic means of collectively mastering Japan's dark and troubled past.
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	Ooka Shohei -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Ooka studied French literature at Kyoto University and was profoundly influenced as a writer by Stendhal, whose works he translated into Japanese.
		Ooka was drafted in 1944, fought in the Philippines, and was captured by U.S. soldiers in 1945.
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	Fires on the Plain (Shohei Ooka) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Both a soldier and professor of literature in his lifetime, Shohei Ooka weaves in his own experiences as a POW during WWII to present the story of Private Tamura in the unforgettable war story Fires on the Plain.
		Ooka's starving Japanese soldier is absolutely captivating in his determination to analyze the horrors of warfare objectively while he witnesses them first hand.
		Stumbling through countless forests and mountains, the poetry that seeps from his reasoning is all the more powerful given his completely numbed and desensitized state.
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	Ooka: Taken Captive: Foreword
		Upon reporting to a regimental depot in Tokyo, he was given rudimentary training and shipped off with a newly formed infantry battalion to join the garrison troops on the Japanese-occupied island of Mindoro, then nervously awaiting the expected American landing in the Philippines.
		A graduate of Kyoto Imperial University but born and raised inTokyo, Ooka was part of a small but vigorous group of young intellectuals who were attracted to the study of European, in particular French, literature.
		In fact, translating Stendhal's detached descriptions of nineteenth-century French battlefields was as close as Ooka had come to experiencing the horrors of war.
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	HORAGAI: Literary News
		The widow of Ooka Syohe donated manuscripts, documents and collection of books to Kanagawa Kindai Bungakukan (Kanagawa Literary Museum) in Yokohama.
		Ooka revised frequently his works but he refused to contain any variants in his complete works.
		The decision of his widow is good news for scholars of Ooka.
	www.horagai.com /www/xnews/xnews96.htm (3118 words)

	Japan Information for US and English Speaking Visitors
		In The Mother of Dreams, Ooka Shohei writes a curious story of a young boy who is stuck in the bed in fever.
		Ooka Shohei is actually not the only modern writer that talks about oedipal love.
		Perhaps this is the reason why Professor Ueda chose the title from the story of Ooka Shohei, The Mother of Dreams.
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	Textbooks by Ooka Shohei - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ooka Shohei - Center for Japanese Studies University of Mic - 1929280289
		Shohei Ooka - University of Michigan Press - 0939512882
		Shohei Ooka - Nihon Tosho Senta - 4820595016
	www.directtextbook.com /author/ooka-shohei (162 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Shade of Blossoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In its first English translation, Shohei's 1961 novel depicts the atmosphere and social mores of Tokyo's decadent Ginza District of the 1950s through the haunting story of an aging nightclub courtesan.
		Calculating enough to begin cultivating such profitable relationships, Yoko has never become as shrewd or ruthless as the younger madams Junko and Ayako, who run the bars in which she works.
		Despite the dry irony of Shohei's prose, there is great pathos in this story of the little bar hostess whose circumstances overwhelm her.
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		The Burdens of Survival: Ooka Shohei's Writings on the Pacific War.(Book Review) : An article from: World Literature Today
		Ooka Shohei ron: Nanju ni soshite kongenteki ni (Ibun sensho)
		Ooka Shohei, Takeda Taijun (Kansho Nihon gendai bungaku)
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	Fires on the Plain - Shohei Ooka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Comment: Both a soldier and professor of literature in his lifetime, Shohei Ooka weaves in his own experiences as a POW during WWII to present the story of Private Tamura in the unforgettable war story Fires on the Plain.
		Comment: Abandoned by his company, Private Tamura wanders Leyte Island with neither a reason to live nor a reason to die.
		Comment: as part of a WWII Class I had to read this novel in addition to George Neill's Infantry Soldier.
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	Barnes & Noble.com - Book Search: Ooka Shohei
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		Author(s): Ooka, Shohei; Washburn, Dennis C. / Hardcover / 09/01/1998
		Author(s): Ooka, Shohei; Washburn, Dennis C. / Paperback / 08/01/1998
		Author(s): Fessler, Susanna; Ooka, Shohei; Washburn, Dennis C. / Hardcover / 12/01/2004
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	Amazon.co.uk: Reviews Books: The Burdens of Survival: Ooka Shohei's Writings on the Pacific War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Amazon.co.uk: Reviews Books: The Burdens of Survival: Ooka Shohei's Writings on the Pacific War
		The Burdens of Survival is both a seminal English-language study of this preeminent literary figure and one of the first scholarly works to thoroughly examine the war literature of a major Japanese veteran-author.
		Toward the end of this work and Return to Mindoro Island (1969), Ooka draws attention to the outstanding obligations owed by his countrymen to the war dead and suggests how they can be fulfilled by public confrontation, learning the lessons of defeat, and using them to rectify lingering social and political evils.
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	Buy The Shade of Blossoms (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 22) by Shohei Ooka - Shop Online
		The Shade of Blossoms (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 22)
		I previously read "Fires on the Plain" by Shohei Ooka and so I was interested when I noticed a review about a new book by the same author.
		It is a tragedy worth reading as well as a brief look beyond the imagery of a Geisha.
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		Professor Washburn is the author of The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction and co-editor of a volume of essays titled Studies in Modern Japanese Literature.
		His most recent publication, The Shade of Blossoms, is a translation of a novel by Ooka Shohei.
		Professor Washburn's research interests include both classical and modern topics.
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		The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Kodansha Globe) by Ivan I. Morris on 6 pages
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	Musashino In Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912:1929280297:Fessler, Susanna; Ooka, Shohei; ...
		Musashino In Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912:1929280297:Fessler, Susanna; Ooka, Shohei; Washburn, Dennis C.:eCampus.com
		Musashino In Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912
		Author(s): Fessler, Susanna; Ooka, Shohei; Washburn, Dennis C. Format: Hardcover
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