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“... in Japan dry up. Doors are closed to them ... Anybody who criticises Japan is a racist.’ Masao Miyoshi, Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, is certainly no Chrysanthemum Kisser. In an ambitious and expansive series of cross-cultural essays, he offers a much more considered assessment of ...”

“... in recent years. A scholarly counterpart of one of Kato’s ‘turning-points’ was achieved by Masao Miyoshi in his Accomplices of Silence (1974). Exaggerated and belligerent though that book may have been, it has what is sadly wanting in most Western studies of Japanese literature: a thesis, an argument, a question. At times he seems to argue that ...”

“... would fight to the death, made no protest over the surrender. The Japanese literary scholar Masao Miyoshi had been an air force cadet in 1945, training to be a kamikaze pilot. Years later, asked by an interviewer whether he had been shocked when the emperor surrendered, he said that ‘all the cadets were thrilled not to have to fight. They threw ...”

“... which had previously filed him among ‘vacuous manufacturers of disposable entertainment’ (Masao Miyoshi) or complained that his books failed to ‘appeal to intellectuals in the broad sense with models for Japan’s present and future’ (Kenzaburo Oe). The novel was written in the US, where Murakami, hiding out from the fan attention occasioned ...”