My pen-name, Siva, comes from the surname of my favorite author, Siva Ryotaro, who passed away several years ago. He was driven to write so many stories and novels to explore what Japan had been until his encounter with Japan's defeat in the WWII. You should not misunderstand he would try to justify Japan's assault or participation in the war. He was just wondering why Japan chose to go to the series of wars and conflicts from 1920 to 1945 without little prospect of handling the Powers. Japan was so blind. Siva, a tankman during the war, saw the Japanese tanks were so fragile as contrasted to the opponents'. Every one of them was easily crashed by just one shell, while the opponent's ones remained intact. He was surprised to find he was sent to China with such tanks by the Japanese government and thought he would die there. But he didn't die. At the moment he found Japan lost the wars, the big question emerged in his mind why and how Japan entered the wars. He asked himself if Japan had been so unwise again and again. Then, he was 23.
He, after the war, got the job as a newspaperman in a major newspaper publishing company, and was in the charge of cultural matters, including Buddhism and pictures. In 1959, he won the Naoki Prize with the novel, "Owl's Castle," and began to pursue how Japan survived and what persons, especially men, lived and worked in this country. His eyes were not limited to the country, but went to Korea, China, Mongolia, and Tatars, which culturally contributed to what Japan was, and I think "is". And his concern flew to the peoples living near Lake Baikal because they have the same genes as ours according to scientific scrutiniy. Some of the peoples were thought to leave to survive to Japan.
I'm going to describe what Siva discovered in each stage of the Japanese history.
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