Joseph Roggendorf, Between Different Cultures: A Memoir

• VerfasserIn: Roggendorf, Joseph,; Cortazzi, Hugh,; Seidensticker, Edward, 1921-2007,
• TeilnehmendeR: Cortazzi, Hugh,; Seidensticker, Edward, 1921-2007,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : Global Oriental, 2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 131 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Joseph Roggendorf's life and experience included Germany during the First World War and in the 1920s and 30s, Britain briefly in the late 30s, Japan at war and under the Occupation and subsequently the new post-war Japan. This memoir includes pen-portraits that illuminate Father Roggendorf the...

Table of Contents

• Publisher's Note; Foreword by Sir Hugh Cortazzi; Introduction by Edward Seidensticker; CHAPTER ONE: Childhood and Youth; CHAPTER TWO: Entering Religious Life and First Alien Culture Contacts; CHAPTER THREE: Tokyo - London. Slithering into the War; CHAPTER FOUR: Cultural Interaction; Postscript; Endnotes by Sir Hugh Cortazzi; Index.