Review of The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987) by Chris K — 29 Nov 2007

The ease and forcefulness with which the Okuzaki cuts through a culture of silence and repression illustrates the willful blindness of Japan to its wartime past, and its helplessness in forging a productive justice and restitution for its people.

Okuzaki is indeed a maniac operating on very confused terms, but his 'creative' moral logic, and the violence with which it erupts as he confronts the guilty indicate the strangeness and unreality of Japan's vacuum of moral accounting.