Sensei and His People: The Building of a Japanese Commune

Sensei and His People: The Building of a Japanese Commune by Yoshie Sugihara and David W. Plath offers a rare and deeply textured account of an alternative community in modern Japan, seen through the lives of its charismatic leader, Ozaki Masutaro, and his followers. Ostracized from the Tenri church as heretics and rejected by their village of origin, Ozaki and a small circle of families built Shinkyō, a commune whose existence embodied both defiance and resilience. Sugihara, Ozaki’s partne...