"represents what originally was given as a series of lectures before foreign residents of Tokyo and vicinity under the auspices of the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. A different approach to and treatment of the subject than those of other historians, Japanese of otherwise, its aim as the author says is "to seek in history an understanding of the fundamental character of our nation".

The History of Nippon

Akiyama, Kenzo; Toshiro Shimanouchi, trans.

Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai

1941

2006.038.389