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Japan At War by Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook

By Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook

A well timed 15th Anniversary reissue of a "deeply relocating book" (Studs Terkel) that portrays the japanese event in the course of international struggle II in all its complexity.

Following the discharge of Clint Eastwood's epic movie Letters from Iwo Jima, which was once nominated for the Oscar for top photograph, there was a renewed fascination and curiosity within the eastern point of view on global struggle II. This pathbreaking paintings of oral heritage is the 1st booklet ever to capture—in both jap or English—the adventure of standard eastern humans in the course of the war.

In a sweeping landscape, Haruko Taya cook dinner and Theodore F. cook dinner take us from the japanese assaults on China within the Thirties to the japanese domestic entrance throughout the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, providing the 1st glimpses of ways the 20th century's most dangerous clash affected the lives of the japanese inhabitants. The publication "seeks out the genuine emotions of the wartime new release [and] illuminates the contradictions among the authentic perspectives of the struggle and residing testimony" (Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan).

Japan at battle is a booklet to which americans and eastern will proceed to show for many years to come back. With greater than 30,000 copies bought thus far, this new paperback version positive factors an up-to-date hide designed to entice a brand new new release of readers.

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I remember Grandmother, exhausted from her day's labor, dozing off while turning the millstones to grind those grains. White rice was something I ate only three times a year-at the O-Bon festival for the dead in August, at the village festival, and at New Year's. EveI)' winter, my father had to go far away to work in a copper mine in Tochigi prefecture, because we get such heavy snowfall here. It comes right up over the first floor. My mother was taken away from me when I was only two. My grandparents brought me up.

A medic will get ~ere soon. " Then you'd keep going. There are songs about war comrades who never desert each other. But China was no song. " They're hurting and ask for help. But you have to advance to carry out your duty. The ones left behind, maybe they're collected later by a medic and get treatment at a temporary dressing station, or maybe they're even BATILE LINES IN CHINA / 35 taken to a hospital, maybe not. I feel lucky that I was never on a stretcher. My unit "returned home in triumph" after two and a half years.

I could afford to get married. When the army caught up with me, I was almost twenty-six. When I reported for my physical in Manchuria I was rated Class A. " The war in China was four years old when he was sent there in the summer of 1941. More than half a million Japanese had been killed or wounded on the continent since the China Incident began. There was no end in Sight. He was assigned to the 232nd Regiment of the Thirty-Ninth Division from Hiroshima, which had been dispatched to Central China.

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