I've got a book
"日米交換船(ISBN: 4103018518) published 新潮社(shinchosha) in 29th March 2006.
This book has two elements(?) one is a "reminiscences", one is " historycal documents". It was written by tree authors. Main author is
鶴見俊輔 (1922- ).
鶴見俊輔 himself returned from America to Japan by the ship on 1942. He stayed US to learn philosophy in Harvard University. (He graduated from Harverd at aged 19years old.)
The ship had swum to rescue citizens from each adversarial country during early on 日米war. (Japanese people who had lived in outside returned to Japan by this ship, American, Canadian who had lived in Japan went back to their own countries by those ships.)
One of the passenger of this ship was
E.Herbert Norman.
This book is very interesting. We can learn History and Japanese modern philosophy/culture.If there is someone who wants to read this book, (include at least one person advanced in Japanese), I wanna be your help with my pleasure. I think it takes more than half year to finish reading it. However, this book is worth reading.
target Readers(
according to Coco): Poeple who like reading about politics/diplomacy/history
The price of 日米交換船 is $33.60(according to the 紀伊国屋 US site)
http://www.kinokuniya.com/
この本は、戦時中に敵国にいた居住者を帰国させるために出帆された交換船の経緯と、そこに乗り合わせた乗客について書かれた本です。航路は各船によって異なりますが、主な出港地は、Hong kong,Saigon,Lourenco Marques.Newyork. Lisbon, Liverpool,Bombay.Melbourne などです。海外にいた市民が戦時中、母国と居住国の戦争をどのように受け止め、どのような判断をしたのか知る上で、非常に興味深い書物です。資料価値もトップクラスですから、歴史、外交に興味のある方にはお勧めします。
日本人でも、読むのに相当の根気を必要としますが、人物索引、元資料の出典等も充実しており、内容は非常に濃いものになっています。たぶん鶴見俊輔氏の最後の代附?ノなるでしょう。
私の英語力ではとうてい解説は無理ですが、JLPT1級レベルの学習者、あるいはこの分野に興味がある方で、英語での説明を助けてくれる方がいれば、ぜひともこれを皆さんとともに読みたいと思います。半年どころではなく1年かかるかもしれませんが、充分価値のある書籍です。