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A Unique Japanese WWII Story
"The gun had become my woman"-said by a Japanese soldier in Manchuria, 1941
Nobuo Kojima (1915 to 2006-Japan) work is said to deal mostly with the effect of the defeat in WWII on the minds of the Japanese.
For many years he was a university professor in English literature translating into Japanese writers like Dorothy Parker and Barnard Malamud.
"The Rifle" is a wonderful anti- war short story. Our narrator was a soldier in the Japanese army in Manchuria during WWII.
He has no great love for the emperor, he has no real political awareness as to why the war is going on, he has no fanatical hatred for Americans or Australians, and he does not come from a samurai family.
The rifle kojima nobuo biography
He loves one thing about the war and that is his rifle. He caresses it, he strokes it, he obsessively cleans "her". He thinks of a woman