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• Stanje Polovno

Five Gentlemen of Japan: The Portrait of a Nation`s Character
This classic account (1952) of the makers of `New Japan` tells the life stories of a journalist, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and Emperor Hirohito. Frank Gibney was a wartime U.S. Navy intelligence officer who became Time magazine correspondent during the American Occupation of Japan. He went on to be a major interpreter of Japan to Americans and America to Japanese, known as a knowledgeable, genial presence in the PBS series Pacific Century.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Japan was a poor, broken, and troubled society. Many in both Japan and the West assumed that it would always be so. But Gibney reported on Japan in such telling and readable detail that we can see in this book both the now forgotten atmosphere of that time and the basis for the `Japanese miracle` to follow.
Now an eminent scholar of Japan currently affiliated with The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College, Gibney wrote these profiles in 1951 and 1952. Though he was young at the time, his experience with Japan was already extensive (including two years as Times Bureau Chief in Tokyo, among other activities). He spoke fluent Japanese (learned at the Navy`s wartime school). The profiles presented here were his effort to convey his understanding of Japanese culture. Except for the emperor, he knew all of the men personally.