Kyotaro NISHIMURA (1930-2022), one of Japan's greatest mystery novelists, was also one of the last students at Tokyo Army Cadet School, who would have died young for the Emperor if the war against the Allies had continued. Before revealing this fact in his autobiography
The War for a 15 Year-Old (15-Sai no Sensou) in 2017, NISHIMURA had got more and more earnestly engaged in writing novels about the Pacific War, where he severely criticized General Tojo again and again as a vicious leader of the Japanese Military as well as its inhuman
Tokko suicide attacks, while idealizing American counterpart's humanitarianism. Which shows that NISHIMURA proved to be a typical Japanese intellectual deeply influenced by American ideals. In fact, in his last novel published in August, 2022, he confessed that Steven Spielberg's
Saving Private Ryan (1998) was his favorite movie.
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