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"Homecoming conveys exactly many curious states of mind of the Japanese that no occidental writer could hope to catch." —James MichenerJiro Osaragi's "Homecoming", originally published in 1950 as Kikyō (帰郷), was the first contemporary Japanese novel to be translated into English after World War II. Against a background of often confrontational and coincidental meetings and partings, fleeting joys and regrets, in Singapore and then in Japan, it describes the author’s anger at the trivial attitudes that surfaced after the war and his genuine admiration for the great contemporary patriots. Kiyogo, whose exile and Europeanization have made him yearn for old-fashioned ways; Professor Oki, an optimistic and hypocritical bureaucrat shaped by war and its aftermath; Sachiko, the adventurous, and her husband, the ineffectual son of an aristocratic family; Otane, his passive mistress, the prototype of the geisha; Admiral Ushigi, who represents the attitudes of former officers toward new times in Japan; Toshi, the slick undergraduate who justifies his "democratic" egotism with glib argument; and Yukichi, the repository of Japan’s hope. The novel is an honest portrayal of postwar Japanese feeli

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Author

Jirō Osaragi

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Published

1954

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical

Rating

3.93 / 5 (76 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14