Faulkner in Japan: The “American Century”

In August of 1955, William Faulkner traveled to Japan.  Based in the out-of-the-way mountain province of Nagano—which, until the 1998 Winter Olympics, enjoyed a benign anonymity in perfect proportion to its relative unimportance in world affairs—Faulkner lectured and temple-toured for two weeks, doing . . .