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Acknowledgments | |
Introduction to a Lost War | p. 3 |
An Undeclared War | p. 21 |
Battle Lines in China | p. 29 |
A Village Boy Goes to War | p. 29 |
Pictures of an Expedition | p. 35 |
Qualifying as a Leader | p. 40 |
Gas Soldier | p. 44 |
Toward a New Order | p. 47 |
"War means jobs for machinists." | p. 47 |
"I wanted to build Greater East Asia." | p. 50 |
Manchurian Days | p. 56 |
Dancing into the Night | p. 61 |
Bringing the Liberals to Heel | p. 64 |
Have "Faith in Victory" | p. 69 |
December 8, 1941 | p. 77 |
"My blood boiled at the news." | p. 77 |
"I heard it on the radio." | p. 78 |
On Admiral Yamamoto's Flagship | p. 81 |
In a Fighter Cockpit on the Soviet Border | p. 83 |
Sailing South | p. 86 |
A Failure of Diplomacy | p. 90 |
Greater East Asia | p. 95 |
Cartoons for the War | p. 95 |
Building the Burma-Siam Railroad | p. 99 |
Keeping Order in the Indies | p. 105 |
"Korean Guard" | p. 113 |
The Emperor's Warriors | p. 121 |
Maker of Soldiers | p. 121 |
"As long as I don't fight, I'll make it home." | p. 127 |
Zero Ace | p. 135 |
"Demons from the East" | p. 145 |
Army Doctor | p. 145 |
Spies and Bandits | p. 151 |
Unit 731 | p. 158 |
Homeland | p. 169 |
Life Goes On | p. 177 |
The End of a Bake Shop | p. 177 |
Burdens of a Village Bride | p. 181 |
Dressmaker | p. 184 |
War Work | p. 187 |
Making Balloon Bombs | p. 187 |
Forced Labor | p. 192 |
Poison-Gas Island | p. 199 |
Wielding Pen and Camera | p. 203 |
Filming the News | p. 203 |
War Correspondent | p. 208 |
Reporting from Imperial General Headquarters | p. 213 |
Against the Tide | p. 221 |
Thought Criminal | p. 222 |
"Isn't my brother one of the 'War Dead'?" | p. 227 |
Childhood | p. 231 |
Playing at War | p. 231 |
Art and Entertainment | p. 240 |
"I loved American movies." | p. 240 |
Star at the Moulin Rouge | p. 248 |
"We wouldn't paint war art." | p. 253 |
Lost Battles | p. 259 |
The Slaughter of an Army | p. 267 |
The "Green Desert" of New Guinea | p. 267 |
Soldiers' Deaths | p. 276 |
"Honorable Death" on Saipan | p. 281 |
Sunken Fleet | p. 293 |
Lifeboat | p. 293 |
Transport War | p. 300 |
"Special Attack" | p. 305 |
Volunteer | p. 306 |
Human Torpedo | p. 313 |
Bride of a Kamikaze | p. 319 |
Requiem | p. 327 |
"One Hundred Million Die Together" | p. 337 |
The Burning Skies | p. 343 |
"Hiroko died because of me." | p. 343 |
At the Telephone Exchange | p. 349 |
The War Comes Home to Okinawa | p. 354 |
Student Nurses of the "Lily Corps" | p. 354 |
"Now they call it 'Group Suicide.'" | p. 363 |
Straggler | p. 367 |
In the Enemy's Hands | p. 373 |
White Flag | p. 373 |
"A Terrible New Weapon" | p. 382 |
Eight Hundred Meters from the Hypocenter | p. 384 |
A Korean in Hiroshima | p. 387 |
Five Photographs of August 6 | p. 391 |
"Forgetting is a blessing." | p. 395 |
The Unresolved War | p. 401 |
Reversals of Fortune | p. 407 |
Flight | p. 407 |
From Bandung to Starvation Island | p. 411 |
"The Army's been a good life." | p. 416 |
Crimes and Punishments | p. 420 |
Death Row at Changi Prison | p. 420 |
"They didn't tell me." | p. 427 |
The Long Shadow of Death | p. 432 |
The Emperor's Retreat | p. 432 |
"My boy never came home." | p. 438 |
Reflections | p. 441 |
Teaching War | p. 441 |
Meeting at Yasukuni Shrine | p. 447 |
Lessons | p. 453 |
A Quest for Meaning | p. 458 |
Endings | p. 462 |
Homecoming | p. 462 |
The Face of the Enemy | p. 468 |
Imperial Gifts for the War Dead | p. 469 |
Royalties | p. 471 |
"I learned about the war from Grandma." | p. 472 |
The Occupiers | p. 477 |
Back at the Beginning | p. 478 |
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