BD. Edmund Blunden

146. ‘The Spirit of Japan’. Review of Japan: A Short Cultural History, by George Sansom (see D22), and Two Minutes to Noon, by Noel F. Busch. Asia Magazine, 16 December 1962, p. 18.

Blunden finds that Sansom’s survey of Japanese history and Busch’s account of the Great Kanto Earthquake ‘have in common the fact that each author . . . knows his subject better than any other non-Japanese writer’.