Foreign Correspondents in Japan - Reporting a Half Century of Upheavals - From 1945 to the Present

Founded in 1945, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan has been a haven for working journalists. This collection of their own accounts allows a behind-the-scenes look at how these journalists - including Pulitzer Prize Recipients - covered Asia during this dramatic era. Their reporting covered some of the most momentous events of the second half of the 20th century, including the end of WW2 and the occupation of Japan, the revolution in China, the Korean War, Vietnam and the student riots of the 1960s, the height of the Cold War, Japan's economic miracle, the subsequent collapse of the `bubble' economy, the death of Emperor Hirohito and much more...