The Last Journalist in Japan

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The search party left behind newspapers and magazines.
Most of them were recent, and a lot of them contained articles about crown prince's marriage.
The newspapers, which covered a period of about four months, made a stack nearly two feet high.
We meaning the two other holdouts with him, we thought they were reprints of real japanese newspapers doctored up by the american secret service in such a way as to eliminate any news that the americans did not want us to see.
This was all we could think so long as we believed that the greater east asia war was still going on.
And in a way, he writes, the newspapers confirmed that the war was still going on because they told a lot about life in japan.

The Asia-Pacific War of 1937-1945 has deep roots. It also involves a Japanese society that's been called one of the most distinctive on Earth. If there were a Japanese version of Captain America, this would be his origin story.