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Daily Life in WartimeJapan, 1940–1945

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The population of wartime Japan (1940–1945) has remained a largely faceless enemy to most Americans thanks to the distortions of US wartime propaganda, popular culture, and news reports. At a time when this country’s wartime experiences are slowly and belatedly coming into focus, this remarkable book by Samuel Yamashita offers an intimate picture of what life was like for ordinary Japanese during the war. Drawing upon diaries and letters written by servicemen, kamikaze pilots, evacuated children, and teenagers and adults mobilized for war work in the big cities, provincial towns, and rural communities, Yamashita lets us hear for the first time the rich mix of voices speaking in every register during the course of the war. Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945 is also a glimpse of a now-vanished world.

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ISBN: 9780700621903
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Author: Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 256 pages
Series: Modern War Studies
Genres: Second World War
Modern warfare
The Holocaust
Social groups: religious groups and communities