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Shōhei Ōoka’s Followers (44)
Shōhei Ōoka
Born
in Tokyo, Japan
March 06, 1909
Died
December 25, 1988
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Fires on the Plain
by
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published
1951
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52 editions
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Taken Captive: A Japanese POW's Story
by
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published
1996
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3 editions
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A Wife in Musashino (Volume 51) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)
by
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published
2002
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10 editions
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The Shade of Blossoms (Volume 22) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)
by
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published
1997
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5 editions
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俘虜記
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published
1948
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Mga Apoy sa Kapatagan
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MON STENDHAL
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Sakai-kō jōi shimatsu
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published
1989
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2 editions
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Nakahara Chuya [Japanese Edition]
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Journal d'un prisonnier de guerre
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“People seem unable to admit this principle of chance. Our spirits are not strong enough to stand the idea of life being a mere succession of chances—the idea, that is, of infinity. Each of us in his individual existence, which is contained between the chance of his birth and the chance of his death, identifies those few incidents that have arisen through what he styles his “will”; and the thing that emerges consistently from this he calls his “character” or again his “life.” Thus we contrive to comfort ourselves; there is, in fact, no other way for us to think.”
― Fires on the Plain
― Fires on the Plain
“Again, was it not this same presentiment of death that made it seem so strange to me now that I should never again walk along this path in the Philippine forest? In our own country, even in the most distant or inaccessible part, this feeling of strangeness never comes to us, because subconsciously we know that there is always a possibility of our returning there in the future. Does not our entire life-feeling depend upon this inherent assumption that we can repeat indefinitely what we are doing at the moment?”
― Fires on the Plain
― Fires on the Plain
“When I felt ill and was on the way to becoming a burden to the other men, I noticed a growing chill in their attitude toward me. For people like us, living day and night on the brink of danger, the normal instinct of survival seems to strike inward, like a disease, distorting the personality and removing all motives other than those of sheer self-interest. That is why this afternoon I did not wait to go and tell my former comrades-in-arms what had happened to me. For one thing, they probably already knew; besides, it seemed unfair to risk awakening their dormant sense of humanity.”
― Fires on the Plain
― Fires on the Plain
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