No one can give a specific answer to what a person's life should look like, unless they have actually walked through it. In other words, all choices were accidental in the circumstances of the time. At the same time, it also has a certain inevitability. Because every choice will be affected by personality, family, social environment and so on.
Reading celebrity biographies is talking to the author. In the book "The Biography of Tsurumi Shunsuke" by the Japanese scholar Kurokawa Tsurukawa, by telling the life of the thinker Tsurumi Shunsuke after the defeat of Japan, readers can further understand the overall social state of Japan during that period, and can also see the weaknesses and persistence in human nature.
The author of this book, Kurokawa, worked as an editor in the magazine "The Science of Thought" founded by Tsurumi Shunsuke, spent half a century with him, and read all of Tsurumi Shunsuke's works and literature. Therefore, the content of this biography not only has a lot of detailed descriptions of life, but also a deep interpretation of its ideas, which has high research value.
On June 25, 1922, Tsurumi Shunsuke was born into a diplomatic family. His maternal grandfather, Shinpei Goto, served as Minister of the Interior, and his father, Yusuke Tsurumi, was always on the run for Japan's relations with other countries. Therefore, when he was a child, Tsurumi Shunsuke had unlimited scenery and was a proper second generation official. However, it is precisely because of growing up in such a big family that Tsurumi Shunsuke has a serious rebellious mentality, dropping out of school, stealing things, and prostituting prostitutes, which is simply a typical bad teenager.
Soon, a turning point appeared, and Shunsuke Tsurumi, under the arrangement of his father Yusuke Tsurumi, went to the United States to study, and after a year of adaptation, entered the philosophy department of Harvard University. Perhaps freed from the tense atmosphere at home, Tsurumi Shunsuke showed extraordinary hard work and hard work, and continued to complete his studies through work-study in the face of tense relations between the two countries.
Eventually, the outbreak of the Pacific War caused Tsurumi Shunsuke to return home on an exchange ship and become a civilian in the Navy. Unexpectedly, here, he witnessed a colleague being chosen to carry out the order to kill the captives. Sometimes, he couldn't help but think: "In war, if I receive the fate of killing prisoners, can I always resist execution?" It was this question that led Toshisuke Tsurumi to doubt the political system of japan at the time in his later life, and he was determined to make efforts to change the thinking of the Japanese people after the defeat.
The half-century-long magazine Science of Thought was born in such a disorderly society. In a sense, the establishment of this platform provided the Opportunity for the Japanese people to speak freely at that time, so that more and more outstanding young people gathered together. Like Shunsuke Tsurumi, they became propagators of new ideas, and their words and deeds were enough to prove that philosophy itself is everyday.
Tsurumi Shunsuke lived to be 93 years old, which is a high lifespan. This may give the illusion that he is an open-minded person, but in fact this seemingly remarkable figure has been plagued by depression. Fortunately, even if he constantly doubts himself, he can always find a new way out of his life. If you ask him what the secret of life is, I think it is: first reflect, then rebuild. What is reflected is one's own past, and what is rebuilt is the new present.
The Biography of Toshisuke Tsurumi is a very in-depth biography. Tell the life of Toshisuke Tsurumi from a subtle point, and restore a real "person" with his words and deeds, which is very readable. Such works have a good inspiration for understanding the history of Japan and facing one's own life.
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