Mr. WILLIAM PLOMER : Living in Japan'
IT WAS to take up no academic appointment that William Plomer went to Japan ; he went out of curiosity, persuaded by a Japanese naval officer whom he met in East Africa. He spent more than two years in Japan and travelled in many parts of the country, visiting some unfrequented places. He taught in a public school and a school of language, and gave lectures at a university, and although he had no degree, he was offered, when he was twenty-five, the chair of English Literature in the Imperial University, an honour which he declined.
This is the first of five talks on Japan, and then the whole series will be reviewed in a broadcast on March 26.