Japan at War : An Oral History
by Cook, Haruko TayaEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1993-10-01
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Summary
This groundbreaking work of oral history captures for the first time ever the remarkable story of ordinary Japanese people during World War II. In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese homefront during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of how this century's most violent conflict affected the lives of the Japanese population. Japan At War is a monumental work of history--one to which Americans and Japanese will turn for decades to come.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction to a Lost War | p. 3 |
| An Undeclared War | p. 21 |
| Battle Lines in China | p. 29 |
| A Village Boy Goes to War | p. 29 |
| Pictures of an Expedition | p. 35 |
| Qualifying as a Leader | p. 40 |
| Gas Soldier | p. 44 |
| Toward a New Order | p. 47 |
| "War means jobs for machinists." | p. 47 |
| "I wanted to build Greater East Asia." | p. 50 |
| Manchurian Days | p. 56 |
| Dancing into the Night | p. 61 |
| Bringing the Liberals to Heel | p. 64 |
| Have "Faith in Victory" | p. 69 |
| December 8, 1941 | p. 77 |
| "My blood boiled at the news." | p. 77 |
| "I heard it on the radio." | p. 78 |
| On Admiral Yamamoto's Flagship | p. 81 |
| In a Fighter Cockpit on the Soviet Border | p. 83 |
| Sailing South | p. 86 |
| A Failure of Diplomacy | p. 90 |
| Greater East Asia | p. 95 |
| Cartoons for the War | p. 95 |
| Building the Burma-Siam Railroad | p. 99 |
| Keeping Order in the Indies | p. 105 |
| "Korean Guard" | p. 113 |
| The Emperor's Warriors | p. 121 |
| Maker of Soldiers | p. 121 |
| "As long as I don't fight, I'll make it home." | p. 127 |
| Zero Ace | p. 135 |
| "Demons from the East" | p. 145 |
| Army Doctor | p. 145 |
| Spies and Bandits | p. 151 |
| Unit 731 | p. 158 |
| Homeland | p. 169 |
| Life Goes On | p. 177 |
| The End of a Bake Shop | p. 177 |
| Burdens of a Village Bride | p. 181 |
| Dressmaker | p. 184 |
| War Work | p. 187 |
| Making Balloon Bombs | p. 187 |
| Forced Labor | p. 192 |
| Poison-Gas Island | p. 199 |
| Wielding Pen and Camera | p. 203 |
| Filming the News | p. 203 |
| War Correspondent | p. 208 |
| Reporting from Imperial General Headquarters | p. 213 |
| Against the Tide | p. 221 |
| Thought Criminal | p. 222 |
| "Isn't my brother one of the 'War Dead'?" | p. 227 |
| Childhood | p. 231 |
| Playing at War | p. 231 |
| Art and Entertainment | p. 240 |
| "I loved American movies." | p. 240 |
| Star at the Moulin Rouge | p. 248 |
| "We wouldn't paint war art." | p. 253 |
| Lost Battles | p. 259 |
| The Slaughter of an Army | p. 267 |
| The "Green Desert" of New Guinea | p. 267 |
| Soldiers' Deaths | p. 276 |
| "Honorable Death" on Saipan | p. 281 |
| Sunken Fleet | p. 293 |
| Lifeboat | p. 293 |
| Transport War | p. 300 |
| "Special Attack" | p. 305 |
| Volunteer | p. 306 |
| Human Torpedo | p. 313 |
| Bride of a Kamikaze | p. 319 |
| Requiem | p. 327 |
| "One Hundred Million Die Together" | p. 337 |
| The Burning Skies | p. 343 |
| "Hiroko died because of me." | p. 343 |
| At the Telephone Exchange | p. 349 |
| The War Comes Home to Okinawa | p. 354 |
| Student Nurses of the "Lily Corps" | p. 354 |
| "Now they call it 'Group Suicide.'" | p. 363 |
| Straggler | p. 367 |
| In the Enemy's Hands | p. 373 |
| White Flag | p. 373 |
| "A Terrible New Weapon" | p. 382 |
| Eight Hundred Meters from the Hypocenter | p. 384 |
| A Korean in Hiroshima | p. 387 |
| Five Photographs of August 6 | p. 391 |
| "Forgetting is a blessing." | p. 395 |
| The Unresolved War | p. 401 |
| Reversals of Fortune | p. 407 |
| Flight | p. 407 |
| From Bandung to Starvation Island | p. 411 |
| "The Army's been a good life." | p. 416 |
| Crimes and Punishments | p. 420 |
| Death Row at Changi Prison | p. 420 |
| "They didn't tell me." | p. 427 |
| The Long Shadow of Death | p. 432 |
| The Emperor's Retreat | p. 432 |
| "My boy never came home." | p. 438 |
| Reflections | p. 441 |
| Teaching War | p. 441 |
| Meeting at Yasukuni Shrine | p. 447 |
| Lessons | p. 453 |
| A Quest for Meaning | p. 458 |
| Endings | p. 462 |
| Homecoming | p. 462 |
| The Face of the Enemy | p. 468 |
| Imperial Gifts for the War Dead | p. 469 |
| Royalties | p. 471 |
| "I learned about the war from Grandma." | p. 472 |
| The Occupiers | p. 477 |
| Back at the Beginning | p. 478 |
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