Reflections of Japan in Pakistani Eyes” is a collection of travel and unpressionistic writings on Japan by Pakistani writers as well as those by a few pre Pakistan writers of Urdu, Pakistan’s national language.
Urdu is one of the most widely spoken languages of the world and its relationship with Japan is almost a hundred years old. It was in 1902 that Urdu began to be taught at the then Imperial University in Tokyo. Today the language is taught at three of Japan’s leading universities.
One of the oldest forms of prose writings, travelogues have always held a great fascination not only for general readers but also for historical researchers who hold them to be authentic records of their times.
Travelogues have also played significant roles in promoting knowledge about and understanding of peoples and cultures of other hands. This book provides a rare opportunity for the Japanese to see themselves as people from another land have seen them. For the Pakistanis it should serve as a source of inspiration - to note what Japan was only early in this century and what remarkable state of development it has achieved today. For the arm-chair travellers of every land, the book should provide interesting reading.
The editor and translator, Syed Abu Ahmad Akif, as a Pakistani Civil Service officer who spent many of his early years in Japan.
conceived edited and translated from Urdu
by
Syed Abu Ahmad Akif
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