Western Writers in Japan

Preface Introduction Lafcadio Hearn: the First Great Literary Emissary from the West PART TWO: BETWEEN THE WARS William Plomer: East-West Relationships William Empson: 'Unresolved Conflicts'? PART THREE: POST WORLD WAR II G. S.Fraser: a Westerner's Analysis of Haiku James Kirkup and D.J. Enright: a Humanitarian Mission? Anthony Thwaite, Two Decades a Generation Apart Stephen Spender: a Traveller Through Japan PART FOUR: THEMES AND VARIATIONS Homosexuality and Japan Cultural Differences Natsume Soseki: Western Individualism and the Japanese Society PART FIVE: INTERVIEWS AND EPILOGUE Iris Murdoch: Her Interest in Zen Buddhism Laurens van der Post: the Virtue of Forgiveness Epilogue References Index