Dr Ian Rapley’s new book "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" is being published by the University of Hawai’i Press this month.
Examining the history of Esperanto in Japan up to the end of the Second World War, historian Dr Ian Rapley highlights the place of Esperanto in East Asia and the international language problem in his first book.
He charts how a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn to the possibilities of Esperanto, revealing how adopters were active right across the country, and significantly at the League of Nations and in the Soviet Union as well. https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/.../green-star-japan.../
