a diary of darkness the wartime diary of kiyosawa kiyoshi

In 1919, he switched over to the Chugai Shogyo Simpo newspaper (today known as the Nikkei) and became a writer on foreign affairs, particularly Korea, Manchuria, and China. In 1918, Kiyosawa returned to Japan to work for the Kanagawa Trading Company in Yokohama, and continued to work in the worlds of business and journalism throughout the 1920's. In 1914, he switched over to the 'New World' newspaper in San Francisco, another major Japanese newspaper. He became the chief of the Tacoma branch of the Japanese-language Seattle newspaper 'North American Current Affairs' (北米時事). Kiyosawa was born in Nagano prefecture, but later moved to the United States in 1906. He was friends with the fellow liberal journalist Tanzan Ishibashi, who appears several times in his diary entries and who would later become the prime minister of Japan. Kiyosawa had a liberal perspective which supported free speech, and as a result most of his diary is dedicated to criticism of the militaristic atmosphere of the Japanese public, the decisions of the military government during the war, and increasing bureaucracy.

It was first published in the English-speaking world as A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi in 1999. Kiyoshi Kiyosawa (清沢洌 Kiyosawa Kiyoshi, 8 February 1890 – ) was a Japanese journalist and writer who is most well-known for his wartime diary that was written between 19, but was first published under the name of A Diary of Darkness ( 暗黒日記) after the war, in 1948, where it caused a sensation.

A diary of darkness the wartime diary of kiyosawa kiyoshi