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Japan at War An Oral History

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ISBN-10: 1565840399

ISBN-13: 9781565840393

Edition: 1992

Authors: Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 10/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction to a Lost War
An Undeclared War
Battle Lines in China
A Village Boy Goes to War
Pictures of an Expedition
Qualifying as a Leader
Gas Soldier
Toward a New Order
"War means jobs for machinists."
"I wanted to build Greater East Asia."
Manchurian Days
Dancing into the Night
Bringing the Liberals to Heel
Have "Faith in Victory"
December 8, 1941
"My blood boiled at the news."
"I heard it on the radio."
On Admiral Yamamoto's Flagship
In a Fighter Cockpit on the Soviet Border
Sailing South
A Failure of Diplomacy
Greater East Asia
Cartoons for the War
Building the Burma-Siam Railroad
Keeping Order in the Indies
"Korean Guard"
The Emperor's Warriors
Maker of Soldiers
"As long as I don't fight, I'll make it home."
Zero Ace
"Demons from the East"
Army Doctor
Spies and Bandits
Unit 731
Homeland
Life Goes On
The End of a Bake Shop
Burdens of a Village Bride
Dressmaker
War Work
Making Balloon Bombs
Forced Labor
Poison-Gas Island
Wielding Pen and Camera
Filming the News
War Correspondent
Reporting from Imperial General Headquarters
Against the Tide
Thought Criminal
"Isn't my brother one of the 'War Dead'?"
Childhood
Playing at War
Art and Entertainment
"I loved American movies."
Star at the Moulin Rouge
"We wouldn't paint war art."
Lost Battles
The Slaughter of an Army
The "Green Desert" of New Guinea
Soldiers' Deaths
"Honorable Death" on Saipan
Sunken Fleet
Lifeboat
Transport War
"Special Attack"
Volunteer
Human Torpedo
Bride of a Kamikaze
Requiem
"One Hundred Million Die Together"
The Burning Skies
"Hiroko died because of me."
At the Telephone Exchange
The War Comes Home to Okinawa
Student Nurses of the "Lily Corps"
"Now they call it 'Group Suicide.'"
Straggler
In the Enemy's Hands
White Flag
"A Terrible New Weapon"
Eight Hundred Meters from the Hypocenter
A Korean in Hiroshima
Five Photographs of August 6
"Forgetting is a blessing."
The Unresolved War
Reversals of Fortune
Flight
From Bandung to Starvation Island
"The Army's been a good life."
Crimes and Punishments
Death Row at Changi Prison
"They didn't tell me."
The Long Shadow of Death
The Emperor's Retreat
"My boy never came home."
Reflections
Teaching War
Meeting at Yasukuni Shrine
Lessons
A Quest for Meaning
Endings
Homecoming
The Face of the Enemy
Imperial Gifts for the War Dead
Royalties
"I learned about the war from Grandma."
The Occupiers
Back at the Beginning