1st Edition
Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation
By Ran Ying Porter
Copyright 2017
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
This book presents an unforgettable up-close account of the effects of World War II and the subsequent American occupation on Oita prefecture, through firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived there. The interviewees include students, housewives, nurses, midwives, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, and munitions factory workers. Their stories... Read more
Introduction, Preface, Map of Oita, Prefecture Chapter 1: Something Big Was Going to Happen Chapter 2: One Million Souls, One Heart Chapter 3: Oita Men Troop to War Chapter 4: The War Expands and the People Mobilize Chapter 5: Invincible Japan Chapter 6: Fire from the Sky Chapter 7: I Shall Die with Pleasure Chapter 8: Never-Ending Sirens Chapter 9: A Hard Price to Pay Chapter 10: Donate Everything Chapter 11: Eliminate the City Chapter 12: Oita's Advisors to the Emperor Chapter 13: The Lightning Bolt Chapter 14: We Didn't Surrender, the War Just Ended Chapter 15: Hungry, Confused, and Afraid Chapter 16: The Devil Comes Ashore Chapter 17: A Bitter Homecoming Chapter 18: The Occupation Takes Hold Chapter 19: Miss Beppu, Crazy Mary, and William Westmorland, Conclusion, Chronology of Japanese Historical Events: 1905-1957, List of Interviewees.
Biography
Edgar A. Porter is Professor Emeritus in the College of Asian Pacific Studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Japan. Previous publications include China in Oceania: Reshaping the Pacific?(co-editor, Berghahn Books, 2010), The People's Doctor: George Hatem and China's Revolution (University of Hawii Press, 1997), re-published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2003 and translated and reprinted under title Chairman Mao's Doctor (Kairyusha Press, Tokyo, 2010).|Ran Ying Porter is a writer and her most recent novel is Black Dragon River (China Youth Press (Beijing, 2014).
