Donald Richie: A Living Tribute
Honorable Visitors: Ulysses S. Grant, Rudyard Kipling and Charlie Chaplin
The following is part of Tokyo Journal’s Living Tribute to Donald Richie who passed away on February 19, 2013. Donald Richie’s contribution was originally printed in the April 1994 edition of the Tokyo Journal. It was exce
Winter Solstice:1947
The following article by Donald Richie is a reprint of his article that first appeared in the Tokyo Journal in April 1991.
IN 1947 Postwar Tokyo was a city of silence, its populace stunned by massive destruction and despair. Yet a young GI witnessed signs that the people were on a slow mend,