Japan at War: An Oral History
Haruko Taya Cook
Language: English
Pages: 479
ISBN: 1565840399
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Following the release of Clint Eastwood’s epic film Letters from Iwo Jima, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, there has been a renewed fascination and interest in the Japanese perspective on World War II. This pathbreaking work of oral history is the first book ever to capture—in either Japanese or English—the experience of ordinary Japanese people during the war.
In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese home front during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of how the twentieth century’s most deadly conflict affected the lives of the Japanese population. The book “seeks out the true feelings of the wartime generation [and] illuminates the contradictions between the official views of the war and living testimony” (Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan).
Japan at War is a book to which Americans and Japanese will continue to turn for decades to come. With more than 30,000 copies sold to date, this edition features an updated cover designed to appeal to a new generation of readers.
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Many friends, like Howard of the SCripps-Howard Institute. Before we left for Europe I wrote letters to these people with the hope that these contacts might lead to improvement in relations. This was the Matsuoka style. A "hidden line." , I attended all of the meetings in Moscow. Matsuoka was the kind of man who gave you your head once he trusted you. His was a man-toman approach. He was easily moved to tears. I personally liked him a great deal. The American ambassador to Moscow was [Laurence.
Clamoring for beer. All twenty-four thousand bottles were drained by the time we got to Takao in Taiwan. So we bought more beer with the money the soldiers had paid. We sailed from port in good spirits. We were dry again by Singapore. There we reloaded with Tiger Beer. We still had two or three bottles per head when we approached Rangoon on September 8. That was the end of our beer-drinking days, We didn't get another drop until the end of the war. "Go into the jungle and build a railroad!" That.
Fields, the value of their properties-but the individual had no idea what has been sent to the unit. They never really saw it. From time to time officials came from the regiment in Toyama, or from the division in Kanazawa, to inspect the documents. Most of the time, notifications came in the middle of the night. An envelope was delivered to the village police chief from military headquarters. The police office then phoned the village mayor. I heard that at the beginning of the China Incident it.
Carriers, but land-based Zeros hit them. In the early stages, I can't give most of the American pilots high marks. Dating back to the days of the China Incident, our fighter training was extremely rigorous and our planes had beat even the vaunted Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers. When I go to America, I often talk with American aces and they say, "At the beginning, Saburo, you and your pilots seemed to enjoy shooting down our planes. At the end of the war it was the same for us. We enjoyed it. It.
Air raid. That kind of war I didn't fight. I was at headquarters and there was no real danger. I was always trying to get out, but never could. "DEMONS FROM THE EAST" / 167 The ovelWhelming majority who were able to flee back to Japan light at the end of the war were men like that. The men who were caught and charged as war criminals in the Soviet Union from Unit 731 were my superior, Karasawa, and Kawashima Kiyoshi. Five more were charged in China, including me. I don't mow much about this,.