'Kotsuji's Gift': The Japanese scholar who rescued Jewish refugees during World War II - review
The picture is cropped. A Japanese man standing to one side has been cut away. That man is Kotsuji, and the book is the long work of putting him back
Assessment
The review centers on a Japanese scholar, Kotsuji, who rescued Jewish refugees during World War II. The deliberate cropping of him from a photograph symbolizes how his story has been erased or overlooked. This book aims to restore that missing figure, recovering a lesser known act of wartime compassion.