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Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
This collection of diaries gives readers a powerful, firsthand look at the effects of the Pacific War on eight ordinary Japanese. Immediate, vivid, and at times surprisingly frank, the diaries chronicle the last years of the war and its aftermath as experienced by a navy kamikaze pilot, an army straggler on Okinawa, an elderly Kyoto businessman, a Tokyo housewife, a young ...more
Paperback, 330 pages
Published
September 1st 2005
by University of Hawaii Press
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Biographies of a range of Japanese war casualties and survivors, ranging from Kamikaze pilots to children writing journals as school assignments. Sadly, much of this writing was written with the fact of censorship to bear in mind, but a few of the entries (a Kyoto store owner, a brilliant young woman working for a business) are critical and also beautiful in their style and descriptions. What is a better way to access history than through the journals of those living in the historical moment? ...more
A fascinating glimpse into the diaries of Japanese who lived during WWII amidst the carpet bombing of Tokyo and the atomic destruction of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Kamikaze pilot diaries are particularly interesting as their perspectives shift as the direction of the war changes.
While not exactly an exciting read, this book is a rare English language study of Japanese lives during WWII. Contains diaries of a variety of people including kamakaze pilot, old businessman, Christian housewife, working woman, children. Many contain good reflective narratives as well as everyday life descriptions. Highly informative introduction details Japanese history and culture of the time.
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