Honda Katsuichi:
Soshite waga sokoku-- Nihon (Now for Our Motherland-- Japan, 1983)
Below are selected translations
of Honda Katsuichi's Soshite waga sokoku-- Nihon by students in
UF's JPW4131 (Fourth Year Readings in Japanese, Spring 2000).
The book is a journalist's account
from ground level of the transformations being wrought in four areas of
rural North Japan by postwar policies of high growth. The translations
were done as a companion to classroom reading of Honda's legendary late
1960's reportage on American society Amerika gassh*koku (The United
States of America, 1973). Both texts are available in convenient pocket
editions from Asahi Bunko.