Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940 - 1945
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- ISBN 9780700624621
- Weight: 354g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 19 Feb 2017
- Publisher: University Press of Kansas
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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An intimate history of the lives of ordinary Japanese during World War II that introduces us to housewives in provincial cities struggling to feed their families while supporting the war effort, a conscript from northern Japan who endured the harshest and most abusive training imaginable to learn to fly, Tokyo teenagers mobilized to work in wartime factories, children evacuated from the big cities to a life in the countryside with little food, bullying, and no privacy, farmers pressured to grow more rice and wheat with less fertilizer and fewer hands, and a Kyoto octogenarian whose inability to contribute to the war effort leads him to contemplate suicide.
Samuel Hideo Yamashita is Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History at Pomona College and author of Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese.
