[Japanophiles] Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies

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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



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