Here are some books that you may find useful during your studies. Search the Bennies catalogue Accessit for more, or browse the Non-fiction collection NFS.
Kazuo Ishiguro discusses the difficulty of creating authentic fictional worlds, growing up in the shadow of the atomic bomb and the moral crisis of post-war Japan.
Existentialism is a Humanism (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946) - Individuals are always able to choose a course of action, and even not choosing is a choice.
Contemporary Japanese Moral Philosophy (Takeo Iwasaki, 1956) - Explores the changing morals of Japanese society during WW2 and American occupation.
Truth, Post-Modernism, and Historical Revisionism in Japan (Tessa Morris-Suzuki, 2001) - Explores the impact of WW2 Revisionism on modern Japanese society.
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) looks back to Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982) and anticipates his third, The Remains of the Day (1989). The painter Ono worries about a possible interference in his daughter marriage negotiations as a consequence of his support to the nationalist government, which compels him to undertake a self-evaluation of his career.