02390cam a2200217 a 4500020001500000020001800015020001500033020001800048040000800066082002600074082000600100100002200106245003800128250001200166260005900178300003700237520182200274650002502096650002502121700002602146  a1565840143  a9781565840140  a1565840399  a9781565840393  cDLC00a940 DIS 1992 A102 Or.04aB1 aCook, Haruko Taya10aJapan at war :ban oral history /  a1st ed.  aNew York :bNew Press :bDistributed by Norton,c1992.  axiii, 479 pages :bmaps ;c25 cm  aThis pathbreaking work of oral history captures for the first time ever - in either Japanese or English - 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 documents a huge range of experiences, from long-ago memories of being taught to play at soldiering in school to personal accounts of carrying out horrendous medical experiments and ruthless massacres. Here are the soldiers and sailors caught in the jungles of New Guinea and on the seas around the Philippines. Here, too, are proud builders of the Burma railway, and unrepentant generals, as well as conscripts whose political or intellectual training made them unwilling participants in the horrors wrought by their country. Japanese newspapermen, filmmakers, artists, cabaret dancers, and diplomats speak candidly about their wartime experiences, adding a whole new dimension to the now-famous symbols of kamikaze pilots and human torpedoes. As they crisscrossed Japan seeking out survivors of a war that cost that country over 3 million lives, the authors encountered every form of human response: those who held to their principles and those who gave in to opportunism, those who controlled events as well as the many - including women and children - who were caught up in the horrific whirlpool. No book to date has captured the complex range of Japanese experiences and emotions as does Japan at War. This is a monumental work of history - one to which Americans and Japanese will turn for decades to come. 0aWorld War, 1939-1945 0aWorld War, 1939-19451 aCook, Theodore Failor