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A Chronicle of My American Journey: The Things I Learned

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Uemura Takashi  and
Norma Field
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It was April 28, 2015—my 57th birthday. I was leaving Japan to embark on a lecture tour. My mood was glum. Fatigue accumulated over the past months had left me with a case of sinusitis, and I was beginning to lose my voice. How can you be going on a lecture tour of the US when you can hardly talk, I asked myself. Moreover, it was an English-speaking world that awaited me. True, there were supposed to be interpreters. But would my story get through to the audience? Waves of uncertainty overtook me.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 33 , August 2015 , e7
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Notes

1 Since his return from the U.S., Uemura has received several invitations.

2 See Leslie Pincus, “A Salon for the Soul: Nakai Masakazu and the Culture Movement in Postwar Hiroshima” (1997). On the “Children's Village” movement sustained by Nakai's daughter Tokumura Tokiko and her husband Tokumura Akira, see Pincus, “On the Shores of Japan's Postwar Left: An Intimate History” (2015).

3 This is the title given to the print version of the article; the internet version, somewhat longer, is titled, “Mr. Uemura Takashi, formerly of Asahi, criticizes Prime Minister Abe in NY; Ms. Sakurai Yoshiko and others also say ‘I will not lose this fight!’” (“Moto Asahi no Uemurashi, NY de Abe Shushō o hihan; Sakurai Yoshiko-shi ra mo ‘Watashi wa kono tatakai ni makenai!’”). Ms. Sakurai herself is not, however, quoted in the article.

4 The text of the speech in Japanese and English may be found on the kantei (prime minister and cabinet) website.

5 See text updated with additional signatories as well as May 25 statement by 16 Japanese historical associations, in English and Japanese, here.