"Lieutenant Lookeast"

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This paper looks at a Japanese short story, "Lieutenant Lookeast" that is set in post-war Japan and that focuses on the society of a Japanese village. The paper examines the elements of tradition within the society and all the negative and positive aspects of it. This story's village is also compared and contrasted to the village in a second Japanese short story, "Prize Stock."

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"The village society in "Lieutenant Lookeast" and "Prize Stock" This essay looks at a Japanese short story, Lieutenant Lookeast, set after World War II in a Japanese village society. It examines how the story shows that that society has been damaged by war and how the strengths and the weaknesses of the village society are depicted. The essay also attempts to answer whether the story gives tradition a positive or negative influence on the society. Furthermore, Lieutenant Lookeast's village is compared and contrasted with the village in another Japanese short story, Prize Stock. In Lieutenant Lookeast, Ibuse Masuji gives us a satirical sketch of the life in a Japanese village in the post-war years. "

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