Uminari Naimu Kanryo Murata Goro to Showa No Gunzo (First Volumes)

[Machine Translation] Goro Murata was a clean and tough bureaucrat in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Many people who met him passed away during the turbulent Showa period. Hideki Tojo, Fumimaro Konoe, Akira Muto, Narumi Inoue, and other military officers, numerous ministers, deputies, and bureaucrats, Hidemi Ozaki, Jiro Shirasu, Yone Nagao, and others. Through their actions as seen by Goro, the book candidly discusses the realities of prewar and postwar history. In the first part of the book, the intense mutual hatred between the Army and Navy, the prolonged Sino-Japanese Incident and the road to World War II, the Navy's insistence on starting war against the U.S. ahead of the Army, the damage caused to Japan and Germany by the Sorge Incident, the breakdown of negotiations between Japan and the U.S., and other events are revealed.

清廉かつ剛毅な一人の内務官僚村田五郎。彼と出会った多くの人びとが各々の激動の昭和を刻み過ぎ去っていった。東条英機、近衛文麿、武藤章・井上成美などの軍人、幾多の大臣、代議士、官僚たち、そして尾崎秀美、白洲次郎、長尾よね…。五郎の目に映った彼らの行動を通して戦前・戦後の歴史の内実が忌憚なく語られる。上巻では、陸海軍の激しい相互憎悪、日中事変長期化と大戦への道、海軍の陸軍に先んずる対米開戦主張、ゾルゲ事件による日独の損害、日米交渉の決裂、などそれぞれの事象がつまびらかになる。