Reinventing Japan

Perhaps because he grew up in the maelstrom of Japanese mid-20th century history, Ando is a realist. He was born in the year of the ill-fated attack on Pearl Harbor and spent his childhood in a country first besieged and bombed, then occupied by a foreign army. He is thus ...

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