This collection of scholarly papers includes translations as well as some personal, creative writing, and reflects the range and scope of Professor Viglielmo's interests: from Japanese literature and Japanese philosophy, to poetry and political activism. This is shown in the selection of papers: Incunabulum; Close Encounter; My Spiritual Odyssey; Anatomy of a Poem; My Encounter with Nishida's Philosophy; Tanabe Hajime's Existence, Love, and Praxis; Tanabe's Dialectic of Christianity; Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the End of the War; Reflections on the Postwar Japanese Peace Movement; and This Republic of Suffering.