Meanwhile, Japan itself had risen from the ashes of wartime devastation and had begun to enter an era of double-digit GNP growth. With their classes and translations came a new respect for the Japan of the twentieth century among academic circles. officers returned home from the country with the knowledge and motivation to create Japanese Studies departments in American universities like Columbia and Harvard.
The postwar American occupation of Japan had ended fifteen years prior, and many of the American G.I. Snow Country won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, a year which serves as a convenient temporal marker for the changing perception of Japan in the collective consciousness of the Western world. Publication Year: 1956 (America) 1947 (Japan)
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