Japan's wartime, postwar English texts reflect changing ideas

Shigeru Takabayashi, who was a student at a branch of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, from spring to summer of 1945, stands in front of the Hikawa Maru cruise liner in Yokohama southwest of Tokyo with the only remaining copy of the academy's English textbook and his diary at that time. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo