May 15, 1939
Note: The writer of the following article, Ezra Loomis Pound, although not well-known in Japan, is one of the few foreigners who made enthusiastic introduction abroad of Japanese ¡°Noh¡± plays and stands shoulder to shoulder with Ernest Fenollosa as a scholar devoted to the study of Japanese culture. Mr. Pound has a brilliant literary record and is at present visiting the United States. ¡ª Editor
Rapallo, Italy ¡ª I am reading The Japan Times with pleasure in the hope of getting some European or American news that hasn¡¯t been doctored to suit one interest or another. The difficulty in writing to a new public is to know what they have already heard. One doesn¡¯t want to bore the reader by telling him what his aunt Jemima has told him or what he has read in the week before last¡¯s picture supplement.
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