Hasegawa of Japan

• By Solveig Smith
• 118 pages.
• Published 1975, The Campfield Press

Excerpt from the prologue

A Country and a People
Is it possible for one of a different cultural background to write with understanding about a Japanese, an Occidental to grasp the inner thoughts and aspirations of an Oriental? To try to portray the character of a man of a race different from one's own may be no easy task, yet I have an overwhelming desire to record the things I have learned and heard and seen in the nearly four years my husband and I were privileged to live in Japan, and the even shorter time we had the good fortune to know Commissioner Koshi Hasegawa.