02438cam a2200241 a 4500 1565840143 9781565840140 1565840399 9781565840393 DLC 940 DIS 1992 A102 Or. B Cook, Haruko Taya Japan at war : an oral history / 1st ed. New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, 1992. xiii, 479 pages : maps ; 25 cm This 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. World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 Cook, Theodore Failor EK 13777 13777 0 0 0 940_000000000000000_DIS_1992_A102_OR 0 65251 LBA LBA A102 2017-08-31 940 DIS 1992 A102 Or. A20343 2017-08-31 2017-08-31 EK