From trade at rolomail.com Wed Feb 27 21:07:58 2008 From: trade at rolomail.com (Trading Department) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:07:58 -0400 Subject: [Japanophiles] Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies Message-ID: Hello fans of things Japanese, To understand modern Japan, you have to understand Japan and the war. Rounding out Rolomail's new WWII section, a moving collection of wartime stories from the people who lived it in Japan... a perspective which will both enthrall and move you. 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 working woman in Tokyo, a teenage girl mobilized for war work, and two schoolchildren evacuated to the countryside. Samuel Yamashita's introduction provides a helpful overview of the historiography on wartime Japan and offers valuable insights into the important, everyday issues that concerned Japanese during a different and disastrously difficult time. Click here to go to the WWII section. http://www.rolomail.com/cgi-bin/home.cgi?WWII And don't forget our new grammar aids: http://www.rolomail.com/cgi-bin/home.cgi?j_basics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: