BD. Edmund Blunden

148. Review of Thought and Behaviour in Modern Japanese Politics, by Masao Maruyama, edited by Ivan Morris. Eastern Horizon, February 1964, p. 65.

Maruyama from his position at Tokyo Imperial University wrote anti-establishment studies of the relation between ideology and government that helped shape post-war Japanese political thought. Blunden finds that the appearance of his ‘well-known and far-reaching essays . . . is itself proof that Japan’s political maturity is . . . attained’.