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Reluctant Admiral, The by Hiroyuki Agawa Yamamoto & the Imperial Navy Soft Cover
Reluctant Admiral, The by Hiroyuki Agawa
Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy
Soft Cover
397 pages
Copyright 1979
CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGY
1884Born in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, sixth son of Takano Sadayoshi, a former samurai.
1901Enters Naval Academy at Etajima.
1904Graduates from Naval Academy.
1905Participates in Battle of Japan Sea on board warship Nisshin. Seriously wounded. Ensign.
1914Enters Navy Staff College. Lieutenant.
1915Lieutenant commander.
1916Graduates from Navy Staff College. Registered as adopted son of late Yamamoto Tatewaki, whose surname he adopts.
1918Marries (the marriage is to produce two sons and two daughters).
1919-21 Stationed in U.S.A. Commander.
1923Visits Europe and U.S.A. Captain.
1924Second-in-command of Kasumigaura Aviation Corps. So far has been gunnery specialist, but now becomes increasingly interested in aviation.
1926-28 Naval attachat Japanese embassy in Washington.
1928Captain of cruiser /sum, then captain of aircraft carrier Akagi.
1930Participates in London Naval Disarmament Conference. Rear admiral.
1930Head of Technical Division of Aeronautics Department.
1933Commander of First Carrier Division (on board Akagi).
1934Japanese delegate to preliminary talks for London Naval Conference. Vice admiral.
1935Head of Aeronautics Department.
1936Navy vice-minister.
1939Commander in chief of the Combined Fleet.
1940Admiral.
1943Killed in action in South Pacific.
THE AUTHOR: Hiroyuki Agawa was born in Hiroshima in 1920. After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1942 he joined the navy, serving as an information officer in Taiwan. The author of many novels, Agawa has received a number of literary awards, including the Yomiuri Prize for his Haru no shiro ("The Castle of Spring") and the Shinchosha Literary Prize for The Reluctant Admiral. A keen traveler and railway enthusiast, he recently translated Paul Theroux's best-selling The Great Railway Bazaar into Japanese. In recognition of his important contribution to contemporary literature, Agawa was awarded both the Japan Academy Prize and the Emperor's Prize in 1979.
THE TRANSLATOR: John Bester is a graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was formerly chief translator for the Japan Quarterly, and his many literary translations for Kodansha International have established him in the front rank of translators from Japanese.
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