Introduction to “People under feudalism”

In June 1947, the Canadian diplomat and historian E. Herbert Norman was invited to address a memorial service for his father sponsored by citizens in Nagano, Japan. Norman's father had been a respected Methodist missionary in Nagano, and he himself had lived there until his late teens. In the context of the recent war and unfolding occupation and “democratization” of Japan, he chose to dwell upon several themes: the nature of feudal society and the feudal legacy in Japan; the plight and potentiality of the lower classes; and the hopes and prospects for a future, less repressive society

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