Two Thousand Days of MacArthur is Rinjiro Sodei’s nonfiction account of General Douglas MacArthur and the Allied Occupation of Japan. It reads occupation policy, the emperor system, and U.S.-Japan relations through both personality and institutions.

It surveys occupied Japan through MacArthur’s two thousand days.

Han o Tarashita Kami is Sei Yoshino’s collection drawn from her own experience of poor farming life in the Abukuma foothills. Beginning to write late in life, she carved into prose a life rooted in the soil, poverty, family, and faith.

The words of a farmer in Abukuma carve the pain and dignity of life.