A Song for Nagasaki

A Song for Nagasaki is the story of Takashi Nagai, M.D., pioneer professor of radiology at the University of Nagasaki, who died of atomic disease six years after the second atomic bomb incinerated his wife and home. It is also the story of his spiritual pilgrimage from his native Shintoism to atheistic rationalism and then to a rationalist complacency disturbed by Pascal's Pensees. HB heart, convinced by the fervor of the familyi he boarded with, converted to a lovely Christian faith. Skillfully weaving Japanese culture and the history of Christianity in japan throughout the development of Nagai's intellectual arf3 spiritual growth, Glynn (an Australian Marist who has served over 20 years infJapan) not only broadens the reader's perspective but deljply touches the heart." BOB FLYNN, America Paul Glynn has written an absorbing account of the life of a man raised in the Shinto faith whose conversion in no way altered his essential Japaneseness". An admirable book". - GROUP CAPTAIN LEONARD CHESHIRE The most effective argument against nuclear war that 1 have yet read, partly because it evokes a gut response and m$kes me weep, and partly because it is an uplifting story of unimaginable heroism. It is also a testimony fe the tenacity and goodness of the human Contents Chapter Page 1 Calmness, the Number One Son 2 Fireflies, Snow and a Lioness 3 Kublai Khan, Tsune and Pascal 4 The Mouse who Couldn't See the Stars 5 'tis an 111 Wind... 6 The Hidden Christians 7 The Bells of Nagasaki 8 Dew on a Morning Glory 9 Silent Night and a Precious Life 10 The Virgin and the Prostitute 81 11 "The Great Pan is Dead" 89 12 At the Feet of a Janitor-Sensei 93 13 White Australia and the Yellow Peril 101 14 Typhoons and Graceful Bamboo 109 15 A Christian Nenbutsu and the Dark Night 117 16 "Arrogant Iieike Tumble" 125 17 The Machine that Turned on its Master 131 18 "But Midori will be Beside Me..." 139 19 When the Sun turned Black 147 20 And the Rain Turned Poison 151 21 The Last Black Hole in the Universe? 159 22 Talking Bones and a New Mantra 163 23 High Noon, and a Nation Wept 167 24 "Not from Chance our Comfort Springs" 174 25 The Parable of the Bare Hut 184 26 The Little Girl who Couldn't Ciy 190 27 The Song of a Tokyo Leper 202 28 The Blue bird who Visited the Bear 207 29 "The Navel of the World" 216 30 Cherry Blossoms Fall on the Third Day 225 31 "For all that has been. Thanks. For all that will be. Yes" 232