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.
- ISBN13 9780700621903
- Publish Date 15 January 2016
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of Kansas
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English