THE ELOQUENCE OF EFFORT EMBODIED: JAPAN WALLOWS IN THE MISERY OF DEFEAT
Postwar Japan wallowed in an inextricable quagmire of wretchedness:its mangled economic networks whimpered plaintively as its ruling institutions got crushed beneath the rubble of a repugnant war. Exposure to the ferocious onslaught of the wintry gusts took its toll. Babies froze in mothers’ arms.