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World War II: Catastrophe and Transformation

A guide of resources and primary sources for EUHI 214 with Prof. Moodie.

Sources

 

Tōkon Iōjima. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010074578

 

So lovely a country will never perish [electronic resource] : wartime diaries of Japanese writers / Donald Keene

 

Sensō : the Japanese remember the Pacific War : letters to the editor of Asahi Shimbun / edited and with an introduction by Frank Gibney ; translated by Beth Cary

 

A physician's diary of the atomic bombing and its aftermath / Raisuke Shirabe, M.D. ; translated by Aloysius F. Kuo, M.D. ; edited by Fidelius R. Kuo

 

Leaves from an autumn of emergencies : selections from the wartime diaries of ordinary Japanese / Samuel Hideo Yamashita

 

Kike wadatsumi no koe. English

 

Kamikaze [electronic resource] : a Japanese pilot's own spectacular story of the famous suicide squadrons / Yasuo Kuwahara and Gordon T. Allred

 

In the faraway mountains and rivers = Harukanaru sanga ni : writings of the University of Tokyo students killed in World War II / compiled by Tōdai Gakusei Jichi-kai Senbotsu Gakusei Shuki Hensan Iinkai (Committee for Compiling the Writings of the University of Tokyo Students Killed in the War, the University of Tokyo Student Council) ; translated by Joseph L. Quinn, Midori Yamanouchi

 

I was defeated. / A translation from the Japanese

 

Fading victory : the diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945 / Masataka Chihaya, translator, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon ; foreword by Gordon W. Prange

 

F. Kikan : Japanese army intelligence operations in Southeast Asia during World War II / Fujiwara Iwaichi ; translated by Akashi Yoji

 

A diary of darkness : the wartime diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi / foreword by Marius Jansen ; edited and with an introduction by Eugene Soviak ; translated by Eugene Soviak and Kamiyama Tamie

 

Cries for peace : experiences of Japanese victims of World War II / compiled by the Youth Division of Soka Gakkai

 

Japan at war : an oral history / Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook

 

Santōtōge o koete : Taimen Tetsudō o kataru. English

三塔峠を越えて : 泰緬鉄道を語る. English

 

Shirahata no shōjo. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90022646