Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction
5. One. The Pacific War and Ordinary Japanese 3
6. Japanese Wartime Diaries
7. Two. The Diary of a Navy Special-Attack Pilot 51
8. Three. Bittersweet: The Wartime and Postwar Diary of an Ordinary Kyoto Person 81
9. Four. The Diary of a Defeated Japanese Soldier 131
10. Five. From the Start of the War 161
11. Until the War Ended 191
12. Seven. The Diary of a Labor Service Corps Girl 221
13. Eight. The Diary of a Evacuated Schoolboy 235
14. The Diary of an Evacuated Schoolgirl 267
15. Glossary 309
16. Bibliography 315
17. Index 321
18. About the Autor 331