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Clear Outlook On The EastYOKO MAT8UOKA8 story in the result of ft Christian democratic upbringing in a country where the entire cultural structure waa drastically changingSide by mdt with age-old customs, the modem Japanem youth waa tearing down the barriers between the m*m, revolting against the sysUm of formal education. and making a valiant attempt to wipe out fear and superstition which had • held the Japanese thought in a particularly narrow channel.The child of a high caste family, most of whom had developed their educational qualities beyond the aver-age. Toko had every ad vantage in the struggle for liberalism and freedom._________r..... Sheattended a school with ’'advanced ideas.” and was later •ant to Amwlcan universities, where she remained for six/ears.Threats of war sent her back to Japan, and. without prejudice, the tails of the. war wars in Tokio and the neighboring citiea—of the air raids and the bombing of Hiroshima, and of the peculiar effect of the Emperor’s voice, broadcast and heard for the first time by his devout subjects, as he announced the defeat of their country.Toko Matsuoka's widecultural experience had given her a particularly clear outlook, and she is able to present the contrast-jpgj^cturcs of Western andthought in a singularly vivid way. covering the Japanese attitudes to war and occupation, which make verv interesting reading
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Adelaide Advertiser
Adelaide, South Australia, AU
Sat, Feb 27, 1954
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
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