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First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 479 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction to a lost war -- pt. 1. An undeclared war. Battle lines in China. A village boy goes to war / Nohara Teishin ; Pictures of an expedition / Tanida Isamu ; Qualifying as a leader / Tominaga Shōzō ; Gas soldier / Tanisuga Shizuo -- Toward a new order. "War means jobs for machinists" / Kumagaya Tokuichi ; "I wanted to build a greater East Asia" / Nogi Harumichi ; Manchurian days / Fukushima Yoshie ; Dancing into the night / Hara Kiyoshi ; Bringing the liberals to heel / Hatanaka Shigeo -- pt. 2. Have "faith in victory"-- December 8, 1941: "My blood boiled at the news" / Itabashi Kōshū ; "I heard it on the radio" / Yoshia Toshio ; On Admiral Yamamoto's flagship / Noda Mitsuharu ; In a fighter cockpit on the Soviet border / Mogami Sadao ; Sailing south / Masuda Reiji ; A failure of diplomacy / Kase Toshikazu -- Greater East Asia: Cartoons for the war / Yokoyama Ryūichi ; Building the Burma-Siam Railroad / Abe Hiroshi ; Keeping order in the Indies / Nogi Harumichi ; "Korean guard" / Kasayama Yoshikichi -- The Emperor's warriors: Maker of soldiers / Debun Shigenobu ; "As long as I don't fight, I'll make it home" / Suzuki Murio ; Zero ace / Sakai Saburō -- "Demons from the East": Army doctor / Yuasa Ken ; Spies and bandits / Uno Shintarō ; Unit 731 / Tamura Yoshio -- pt. 3. Homeland. Life goes on: The end of a bake shop / Arakawa Hiroyo ; Burdens of a village bride / Tanaka Toki ; Dressmaker / Koshino Ayako -- War work: Making balloon bombs / Tanaka Tetsuko ; Forced labor / Ahn Juretsu ; Poison-gas island / Nakajima Yoshimi -- Wielding pen and camera: Filming the news / Asai Tatsuzō ; War correspondent / Hata Shōryū ; Reporting from Imperial General Headquarters / Kawachi Uichirō -- Against the tide: Thought criminal / Hatanaka Shigeo ; "Isn't my brother one of the 'war dead'?" / Kiga Sumi -- Childhood: Playing at war / Satō Hideo -- Art and entertainment: "I loved American movies" / Hirosawa Ei ; Star at the Moulin Rouge / Sugai Toshiko ; "We wouldn't paint war art" / Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi -- pt. 4. Lost battles. The slaughter of an army: The "green desert" of New Guinea / Ogawa Masatsugu ; Soldiers' deaths / Ogawa Tamotsu ; "Honorable death" on Saipan / Yamauchi Takeo -- Sunken fleet: Lifeboat / Matsunaga Ichirō ; Transport war / Masuda Reiji -- "Special attack": Volunteer / Yokota Yutaka ; Human torpedo / Kōzu Naoji ; Bride of a kamikaze / Araki Shigeko ; Requiem / Nishihara Wakana -- pt. 5. "One hundred million die together." The burning skies: "Hiroko died because of me" / Funato Kazuyo ; At the telephone exchange / Tomizawa Kimi and Kobayashi Hiroyasu -- The war comes home to Okinawa: Student nurses of the "Lily Corps" / Miyagi Kikuko ; "Now they call it "group suicide" / Kinjō Shigeaki ; Straggler / Ōta Masahide -- In the enemy's hands: White flag / Kojima Kiyofumi -- "A new terrible weapon": Eight hundred meters from the hypocenter / Yamaoka Michiko ; A Korean in Hiroshima / Shin Bok Su ; Five photographs of August 6 / Matsushige Yoshito ; "Forgetting is a blessing" / Kimura Yasuko -- pt. 6. The unresolved war. Reversals of fortune: Flight / Fukushima Yoshi ; From Bandung to Starvation Island / Iitoyo Shōgo ; "The army's been a good life" / Tanida Isamu -- Crimes and punishments: Death row at Changi Prison / Abe Hiroshi ; "They didn't tell me" / Fujii Shizue -- The long shadow of death: The Emperor's retreat / Yamane Masako ; "My boy never came home" / Imai Shike -- Reflections: Teaching war / Ienaga Saburō ; Meeting at Yasukuni Shrine / Kiyama Terumichi ; Lessons / Mogami Sadao ; A quest for meaning / Ōta Masahide -- Endings: Homecoming / Tominaga Shōzo ; The face of the enemy / Sasaki Naokata ; Imperial gifts for the war dead / Kawashima Eiko ; Royalties / Yokoyama Ryūichi ; "I learned about the war from Grandma" / Miyagi Harumi ; The occupiers / Kawachi Uichirō ; Back to the beginning / Hayashi Shigeo. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan.
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Oral history.
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Japan -- History -- 1926-1945.
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| Added Author |
Cook, Theodore Failor.
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| ISBN |
1565840143: 25.00 |
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