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There is a wonderful book about Japan by Fosco Maraini, Italian writer, photographer and mountain climber who spent ten years of his life in Japan teaching Italian in Sapporo and Kyoto. The book's title is "Ore giapponesi", but I don't know if it was ever translated in English. Fosco and his family spent two years from 1943 to 1945 in a Japanese jail because he did not adhere to the Fascist regime after the armistice of September 1943. But he did love Japan and its people and married a Japanese woman in a second marriage. He had three daughters from his first wife, Princess Alliata di Monreale, and the second and third, born in Japan have Japanese names. The first one, Dacia, is a noted Italian writer. After the war he returned to Japan. In the Thirties ha had acted as a photographer in Tibet with Giuseppe Tucci, a scholar of the Far Eastern cultures. His black and white photographs of Tibet's monasteries are all what is left after their destruction by the Chinese in the "cultural revolution" period and were presented to the Dalai Lama by the Italian Geographical Society.
Tullio