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- A Cargo Doomed to Boom by
John Laughton
- Amakusa Two-seat Reconnaissance
Seaplane Squadron: Two Planes in First Battle, Dove into Reef
- Among the Remnants of the
Suicide Subs by Keith Fitzgerald
- Assorted Thoughts During War by
Kiichi Kawano
- Censored Suicide
- Continued Commitment: Main Force
for Mainland Decisive Battle
- Crash Attack With New Wife On
Board
- Drop Training: Hard-to-use Spear,
Observed Reality
- First Battle Results: Change in
Tactics, Only Sinking
- For Five Seconds, A Gunner
by Daniel A. Kitchen, Lt. USNR (Retired)
- Forever Grateful
by Fred Mitchell
- Image from 69 Years Ago: Toward
American Warship Showered with Countless Machine Gun Fire, Older Brother's
Tragic Bravery
- Kamikaze Pilots Visit Ritsu
Tsurumaru's Home
- Kamikaze, the Ultimate Sacrifice
by Daniel A. Kitchen, Lt. USNR (Retired)
- Lack of Experience: Hard 600-km
Flight over the Sea
- Last Writings: Hero, Dying in
Vain, Reality That Cannot Be Expressed by Dualism
- LCS 118: A Radar Picket
Patrol by Earl Blanton
- Little Italy to Okinawa
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Magnificent Comrades of Tsukuba Unit
by Nobuya Kinase
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Man Killed In Action Who Returned
by Yoshihiko Konishi
-
May 28, 1945—Another Day of Infamy
by Dr. Rex Davis
- Mighty Midgets 2007 Reunion
-
My Personal History: Two Lives
by Kaoru Hasegawa
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Observer Training Aircraft:
Mobilization of Plane Not Fit for Battle
-
Perilous Full Moon: I Survived
Due to Old Airframe
- Phantom Daytime Attack (Part 1):
Squadron Members With No Wish to Volunteer
- Phantom Daytime Attack (Part
2): Sudden Cancellation, Not Even Any Record
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Phantom Kenmu Squadron: Cancelled Just
Before Takeoff
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Preparing to Sortie and Waiting for
Orders Every Day for Two Weeks by Yukitoshi Kataoka
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Remembering Times Past from 34 Years
Ago by Miyoji Kobayashi
- Rescued Kamikaze Pilot Also Callaghan
Survivor by Leo Jarboe
- Resentment: Tradition of
Commanding Officer's Taking Lead Disappeared
- Resolved to Die by Shirō
Satō
- Shin'yō Special Attack Squadron
by Toshio Ōta
-
Shunsuke Tomiyasu
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Sinking of USS Drexler DD-741
by Gene Brick
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Sorties Cancelled Twice: Enjoyment of
Long Life Due To Small Difference
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Special Attack Corps Waiting Room at Tomitaka Base
by Yūji Naito
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Special Mission: Symbolic of
"Irresponsibility" in Upper Ranks
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Spiritual Foundation of Kamikaze Special
Attack Corps Members by Senri Nagasue
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Survival of Drexler Survivors
Reunion Association
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Two Days Before War's End, Jinrai
Butai's Last Sortie
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2007 USS Callaghan (DD-792)
Reunion
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2007 USS Morrison (DD-560)
Reunion
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2010 USS Drexler (DD-741)
Reunion
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2012 USS Callaghan (DD-792) Reunion
- Who Sank the Destroyer Drexler?
- Without Telegraph: No Way to
Communicate Battle Results
- Yoko's Hopes and Losses by Yuko Shirako
Books
- Personal Narratives
- General
- Aeronautical Staff
of Aero Publishers, Kamikaze
- Axell and Kase, Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Gods
- Barker, Suicide Weapon
- Brown, Kamikaze
- Burlingame, Advance Force Pearl Harbor
- Carruthers, Australia Under Siege:
Japanese Submarine Raiders 1942
- Cea, Tokubetsu Kogeki Tai. Special
Attack Units
- Charles River Editors,
The Kamikazes: The History of Japan's World War II Suicide Pilots
- Cortesi, Valor at
Okinawa
- Craddock, First Shot: The Untold Story of
the Japanese Minisubs that Attacked Pearl Harbor
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Delgado, Kerby, Tilburg, Price,
Varmer, Cremer, and Matthews, The Lost Submarines of Pearl Harbor: The
Rediscovery and Archaeology of Japan's Top-Secret Midget Submarines of World
War II
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Grose, A Very Rude Awakening
- Hagoromo Society, The Cherry Blossom
Squadrons: Born to Die
- Hoyt, The Kamikazes
- Hoyt, The Last Kamikaze
- Iredale, The Kamikaze
Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific, 1945
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Ishiguro and Januszewski,
Japanese Special Attack Aircraft & Flying Bombs
- Jenkins, Hitting Home: The Japanese Attack
on Sydney 1942
- Lambert, Bombs, Torpedoes and Kamikazes
- Lamont-Brown, Kamikaze:
Japan's Suicide Samurai
- Lardas, The Kamikaze
Campaign 1944-45
- Lind, Toku-tai: Japanese Submarine Operations
in Australian Waters
- Millot, Divine Thunder:
The Life and Death of the Kamikazes
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Morris, Battleship Yamato: Of
war, beauty and irony
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Mortensen,
Divine Wind: Kamikaze Attacks
Against the US Navy
- Naito, Thunder Gods
- Ohnuki-Tierney, Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms
- O'Neill, Suicide Squads
- Rice, Kamikazes
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Rielly, Kamikazes, Corsairs,
and Picket Ships: Okinawa, 1945
- Sears, At War with the Wind: The Epic
Struggle with Japan's World War II Suicide Bombers
- Sheftall, Blossoms in the Wind
- Sholin, The Kamikaze
Nightmare: Terror of the Lambs
- Sholin, The Sacrificial Lambs
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Sholin, Truman's Decision:
Kamikazes the Unknown Factor
- Smith, Kamikaze: To Die
for the Emperor
- Spurr, A Glorious Way to Die
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Stern, Fire From the Sky: Surviving the
Kamikaze Threat
- Stewart, Kamikaze:
Japan's Last Bid for Victory
- Stille, US Navy Ships vs
Kamikazes 1944-45
- Takaki and Sakaida, B-29 Hunters of the JAAF
- Thurman, Picket Ships at Okinawa
- Veesenmeyer,
Kamikaze Terror: Sailors Who Battled the Divine Wind
- Warner and Seno,
The Coffin Boats:
Japanese Midget Submarine Operations in the Second World War
- Warner and Warner, The
Sacred Warriors: Japan’s Suicide Legions
- Zaloga, Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack
Weapons 1944-45
- Zimmerman, Battleship Yamato: Why She
Matters Today
- Ship Histories
- Acord and Holbrook, Hell and
High Water in the Pacific: The Story of the USS Lowry, DD 770
- Andersen, Three Minutes Off
Okinawa
- Arnold, Standby Arnold
- Ball, Fighting Amphibs: The LCS(L) in World War II
- Becton, The Ship That Would Not Die
- Billingsley, The Emmons Saga: A
History of the USS Emmons (DD457-DMS22)
- Blanton, Boston——to Jacksonville (41,000 Miles by
Sea)
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Bonner and Bonner,
USS Missouri at
War
- Brown and Anteau, Historical
Review: U.S.S. Drexler DD-741
- Burt, Kamikaze Nightmare
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Bustin, Humble Heroes: How
the USS Nashville CL43 Fought WWII
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Calhoun, Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard
the USS Sterett, 1939-1945
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Charney,
USS Ingraham DD694: 1944-1945
- Cline, Escort Carrier WWII: War in the Pacific
on the Aircraft Carrier USS Petrof Bay
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Craig, USS Cassin Young: Fletcher
Class Destroyer DD793
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Craighead, All Ahead Full: World War
II Memoirs of an LSM 215 Veteran
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Crew, Combat Loaded: Across the
Pacific on the USS Tate
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Dennis, The Destroyer U.S.S. Flusser DD368: Her Life of Service
- Dennis, U.S.S.
Frustrate: "The Luckiest Ship in the Navy"
- Duffy, The Wonderful World of John Duffy: An
Autobiography
- Fillmore, War History of USS Leutze (DD-481)
- Foster, The Last Destroyer: The Story of the
USS Callaghan
- Fry, USS Saratoga CV-3:
An Illustrated History of the Legendary Aircraft Carrier 1927-1946
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Graves, Men of Poseidon: Life
at Sea Aboard the USS Rall
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Griggs, Preludes to Victory:
The Battle of Ormoc Bay in WWII
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Harmon, U.S.S. Cassin Young (DD-793)
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Harper, Too Close for Comfort
- Irons, Phalanx Against
the Divine Wind: Protecting the Fast Carrier Task Force During World War 2
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Jackson, Lucky Lady: The World War II
Heroics of the USS Santa Fe and Franklin
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Jones, Days of Steel Rain: The
Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
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Kalosky, Harm's Way—Every
Day: The
Book of Destroyer (Tin Can) at Okinawa
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Kennedy, Danger's Hour: The
Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her
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LCS(L) Landing Craft
Support (Large)
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Lott, Brave Ship Brave Men
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Lott and Sumrall, USS Ward—The
First Shot (also has title of USS Ward Fires First Shot WWII)
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MacKay, The U.S. Navy's "Interim" LSM(R)s
in World War II: Rocket Ships of the Pacific Amphibious Forces
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Mair, Oil, Fire, and Fate: The Sinking of
the USS Mississinewa (AO-59) in WWII by Japan's Secret Weapon
- Mair and Waldron, Kaiten:
Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship It Sank
in WWII
- Malott, "If We Save But One": Going
to War with Jinrai Butai "The Kamikaze"
- McBride, William M., ed., Good Night
Officially: The Pacific War Letters of a Destroyer Sailor
- Monsarrat, Angel on
the Yardarm
- Novotny, In the Wake of
Jellybean
- Oberg, Lucky Sweetbrier
- Olson,
Tales from a Tin Can: The USS
Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
- Payne, H.M.A.S.
Australia 1928-1955
- Phelan, Tin Can 367
- Rielly, Mighty Midgets At War: The Saga of the
LCS(L) Ships from Iwo Jima to Vietnam
- Ronck, Battleship Missouri
- Rooney, Mighty Midget U.S.S. LCS 82
- Samuels, War Patrol of the PCE(R)852
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Simmons,
USS Tennessee in World War II
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Skeldon, USS Kadashan Bay VC-20
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Stafford, Little Ship, Big
War: The Saga of DE343
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Stafford, The Big E: The Story of the USS
Enterprise
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Staton, The Fighting Bob: A Wartime
History of the USS Robley D. Evans (DD-552)
- Stillwell, Battleship Missouri: An
Illustrated History
- Stone, "My Ship!" The U.S.S.
Intrepid
- Streb, Life and Death Aboard the U.S.S. Essex
- Sumrall,
USS Kidd (DD-661)
- Surels,
DD 522: Diary of a Destroyer
- Veesenmeyer, Kamikaze Destroyer: USS
Hugh W. Hadley (DD774)
- White and Gandt, Intrepid: The Epic
Story of America's Most Legendary Warship
- Wolfe, Wolfe, and
O'Hara,
History of the USS Kidd (DD661) and the Fletcher Class Destroyers
- Wukovits, Hell from the
Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest
Kamikaze Attack
- Y'Blood, The Little Giants: U.S. Escort
Carriers Against Japan
- Fiction
- Atkinson, Tommy: A
World War II Novel
- Deutermann, Sentinels of Fire
- Dodson, Away All Boats
- Ferry, Raspberry One
- Flynn, Kamikaze!
- Fowler, The Astrological
Diary of God
- Freedman, The Seventh
Stone
- Garber, Crosswind
- Grant, Attack from the sun
- Grant, Night Flying Avenger
- Gray, Tokyo Torpedo
- Kaga, Riding the East Wind
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Kimura, Japanese Rose
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Kuwahara and Allred, Kamikaze
- Leicester,
Kamikaze
- Mannock, The Sen-Toku Raid
- Meade, The Dignity of Danger
- Morris, The Last Kamikaze
- Nicole, The Ship with No Name
- O'Keefe, A Thousand Stitches
- Park, When My Name Was Keoko
- Sakamoto, One Hundred Million Hearts
- Searls, The Hero Ship
- Slade, Kamikaze
- Somma, Midori and the 1000
Stitch Belt
- Tillman, Hellcats
- Wheatcroft, Answering
Fire
- Related Topics
- Barlow, Dead for Good:
Martyrdom and the Rise of the Suicide Bomber
- Bawal, Jr., Titans of the Rising Sun:
The Rise and Fall of Japan's Yamato Class Battleships
- Conroy, 1945
- Delgado, Kamikaze:
History's Greatest Naval Disaster
- Eadon, ed., Kamikaze: The Story of the British Pacific
Fleet
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Evans, ed. and trans., The
Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval
Officers
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Gandt, The Twilight Warriors
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Grossberg, Last Letter
Home: Stories of War, Love and Remembrance
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Hall, American Kamikaze
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Hara, Japanese Destroyer Captain
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Hashimoto, Sunk!
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Kemp, Underwater Warriors
- King,
The Last Zero Fighter: Firsthand Accounts from WWII Japanese Naval Pilots
- Klinkowitz, Pacific
Skies: American Flyers in World War II
- Lubeski, Linebackers of
the Sea
- Parkin, Blood on the Sea: American
Destroyers Lost in World War II
- Sakaida and Takaki, Genda's Blade: Japan's
Squadron of Aces: 343 Kokutai
- Samples, Wings Over Sakishima
- Shibusawa, America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining
the Japanese Enemy
- Thomas, Sea of Thunder
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Thompson, Why Do Kamikaze
Pilots Wear Helmets?
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Tsouras, Rising Sun Victorious: The
Alternate History of How the Japanese Won the Pacific War
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Vernon,
The Hostile Sky: A Hellcat Flier
in World War II
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Werstein, Okinawa: The Last
Ordeal
- Westheimer, Death is Lighter than a Feather
- Wilson, Black Wind
- Young, American Aces
Against the Kamikaze
- Comics
- Japanese
- Aihoshi, Hana no toki
wa kanashimi no toki (Flower season, a sad season)
- Akabane and Ishii, Hotaru kaeru (The firefly returns)
- Asahi Shimbun Seibu Honsha, Sora no kanata ni (To distant skies)
- Den, Tokkōtai datta boku ga ima wakamono
ni tsutaetai koto (What I as a former Special Attack Corps member would
like to say to today's young people)
- Dizon, Firipin shōnen ga mita
kamikaze: osanai kokoro ni kizamareta yasashii nihonjintachi (Kamikaze
seen by Philippine youth: Kind Japanese individuals engraved in my young heart)
- Fukushima, Abe
Masaya shōi: Nido senshi shita tokkōhei (Second Lieutenant Masaya Abe:
Special attack soldier who died in battle twice)
-
56th Shin'yō Squadron Member
Volunteers, Reiko Kimura, and Enosuke Kamida, Kaigun suijō tokkōtai:
Shin'yō (Navy surface special attack corps: Shin'yō)
- Gotoh, Tokkō senshi no
ishi ni furete (Experiencing the last wishes of the special attack
warriors)
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Hayashi, Kuroshio no
natsu: Saigo no shin'yō tokkō (Kuroshio summer: Last Shin'yō special
attack)
- Hiragi, Tokkō pairotto
o sagase: Umoreta rekishi no nazo o horiokoshita shinjitsu no kiroku
(Finding a kamikaze pilot: Record of truth uncovered regarding puzzle of his
hidden history)
- Hiroi, Hotaru ni natta tokkōhei:
Miyagawa
Saburō monogatari (Kamikaze pilot who turned into firefly: Story of Saburō
Miyagawa)
-
Horikoshi, Inochi narikeri: Tokkō yotabi
seikan no ki (Even such is life: Account of returning alive four times
from special attacks)
- Jinno, Azusa tokubetsu kōgekitai (Azusa special attack
unit)
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Kachi, Senkan mizūri ni totsunyū shita reisen (Zero fighter that crashed into battleship
Missouri)
- Kataoka, Ai shite yamazu (Unending
love)
- Kikuchi, Shiragiku rensō (Shiragiku
Associations)
- Kōsaka, Tokkōtaiin no inochi no koe ga kikoeru
(Hearing the voices of lives of special attack corps members)
- Kudō, Tokkō e no rekuiemu (The Requiem for Kamikaze)
- Kuniyoshi, Shōnen to Ishigakijima tokkō
kichi (A Boy and Ishigakijima Special Attack Base)
- Medoruma, Fūon (The Crying Wind)
- Minaminippon Living
Shinbunsha, Zerosen ni kaketa otoko (Man who soared in Zero
fighter)
- Mori, Gekkō no Natsu (Summer of the Moonlight Sonata)
- Mori, Yuki wa jūnanasai tokkō de shinda
(Yuki died at 17 in a kamikaze attack)
-
Nakata, Tokkōbana
(Tokko Flowers)
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Nakata, "Tokkōbana" tte shitteru? (Do
you know about "tokko flowers"?)
- Nikaidō, Umi no bohyō: Suijō tokkō
"shin'yōtei" no kiroku (Grave markers at sea: Record of
marine special attack Shin'yō boats)
- Ōnishi, Futari no tokkōtaiin (Two
Special Attack Corps members)
- Satō, Tokkō no machi: Chiran
(Special attack corps town: Chiran)
- Shiraishi, Amerika
kara mita tokkō (Kamikaze on the American view)
- Shirakawa, Sara no hana: "Tokkō" Okinawa no
umi ni chiru, Nakajima Hidehiko no kiroku (Sal flower: Dying in
special attack in Sea of Okinawa, record of Hidehiko Nakajima)
- Takagi, Tokkō kichi Chiran (Chiran: special attack forces base)
- Takeyama, Hotaru (Firefly)
- Tenzan, Kaiten shōsetsu
nidai - Kaiten tokubetsu kōgekitai no haha: Oshige-san monogatari and Shūsen
zenjitsu no kūbaku: Hikari kaiten kichi monogatari (Two kaiten stories -
Mother of kaiten special attack corps: Story of Oshige and Air attack on day
before end of war: Story of Hikari kaiten base)
- Torihama,
Chiran inochi no monogatari: "Tokkō no haha" to yobareta Torihama Tome no
shōgai (Chiran life story: Life of Tome Torihama, called "tokkō mother")
- Torihama, Naze wakamonotachi wa egao de
tobitatte itta no ka (Why did the young men take off with smiling
faces?)
- Usami, Ningen gyorai kaiten: Chinkon su
tokkō jidai (Kaiten human torpedo: Time of singing requiems for special
attacks)
- Yasujima, Tokkō hyōryū (Special
attack drift)
- Yokoyama, Deguchi
no nai umi (Sea without exit)
- Children's Books
- Ami Town, ed.,
Yokaren monogatari (Yokaren story)
-
Gakken, ed., Heiwa e no omoi (Thoughts toward
peace)
- Hino, Tsubasa no kakera: Tokkō ni chitta
kaigun yobi gakusei no seishun (Wing fragment: Youth of Navy reserve
students who died in special attacks)
-
Imanishi, Sumirejima (Violet Island)
- Kogure,
Saigo no picchingu: Tokkō no kieta maboroshi no meitōshu (Final
pitch: Phantom star pitcher who disappeared in special attack)
- Mori, Piano wa
shitte iru: Gekkō no natsu (The piano knows: Summer of the
moonlight sonata)
- Nakagawa, Senkan Yamato ga shizunda hi
(Day that Battleship Yamato Sank)
- Satō,
Hikari no umi
(Hikari sea)
- Shimahara, Shiroi kumo no kanata ni (To the
distant white clouds)
- Shimahara, Umi ni kieta 56nin (56
men who disappeared
into the sea)
- Takeda, Nijuuroku ya mairi
(A moon twenty-six days old)
- Tokita, Otōsan
e no senbazuru (A thousand origami cranes for father)
-
Uemura, Taichi kara no inori: Chiran tokkōkichi (Prayer from the earth: Chiran special attack base)
- Yasunobu, Kamikaze tokkōtai (Kamikaze
special attack corps)
- Yazaki, Sensei no piano ga utta (The teacher's piano sang)
-
Yoshimoto,
Wakamonotachi wa naze tokkō o eranda no ka (Why young people chose
special attacks)
- Manga
- Lists
Films
Museums
Monuments
Internet
Letters,
Poems, Diaries, and Other Writings
-
Last Writings of Japan's Special Attack Corps Members (thesis
for Wesleyan University MPhil degree in Liberal Arts)
- Excel File - Special Attack Corps Last Writings Analysis (support
for Wesleyan University MPhil thesis)
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Hideo Abe
- Second Lieutenant Masaya
Abe
- Second Lieutenant Tadaaki Abe
- Corporal Takao Adachi
- Ensign Takuya Adachi
- Corporal Tsugihiko
Adachi
- Corporal Nobuo Aihana
- Second Lieutenant Shigeaki
Amano
- Flight Petty Officer 1st Class
Masanori Anami
- Second Lieutenant Toshio
Anazawa
- Corporal Kōji Andō
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class
Haruo Arai
- Sergeant Kazuo Arai
- Second Lieutenant Haruo
Araki
- Flight Petty Officer
2nd Class Kazuhide Araki
- Corporal Yukio Araki
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Tatsuzō Arisue
- Second Lieutenant Matayuki
Asakawa
- Second Lieutenant Takashi Asao
- Ensign Setsurō Asou
- Flight Petty Officer 1st Class
Saburō Chiba
- Corporal Toshio Chizaki
- Second Lieutenant Kanji Eda
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Haruji Endō
- Ensign Masuji Endō
- Second Lieutenant Yasurō
Ezoe
- Lance Corporal Hideo Fujii
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Tsutomu Fujimura
- Corporal Bunroku Fujita
- Ensign Nobuaki Fujita
- Corporal Tsuneaki Fujiyama
- Lieutenant Naoji Fukabori
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Tadasu Fukino
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Hitoshi Fukuda
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Kaneyuki Fukuda
- Ensign Cadet Shigeo
Fukuda
- Ensign Masaji Fukushima
- Flight Chief Petty
Officer Teruo Fukushima
- Corporal Yasuo
Fukushima
- Corporal Tadamasa Fukuura
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Masamichi Fukuyama
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Iwao Fumoto
- Ensign Toshio Furuichi
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Masataka Furukawa
- Ensign Shinji Furuya
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Genjirō Gakiya
- Corporal Yukio Garan
- Second Lieutenant Mitsuharu Gotō
- Corporal Hitoshi Hamada
- Sergeant Major Ichidō Hara
- Second Lieutenant
Shiori Harada
- Flight Chief Petty Officer Yukio
Harada
- Flight Petty Officer
2nd Class Isuke Hasegawa
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Kiichi Hasegawa
- Corporal Saburō
Hasegawa
- Corporal Toyoji Hashimasa
- Corporal Isamu
Hashinokuchi
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Kazumi Hashizume
- Ensign Yoshikage Hatabu
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Toshimune Hattori
- Second Lieutenant
Genrō Hayashi
- Second Lieutenant
Hiroshi Hayashi
- Ensign Ichizō Hayashi
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Norimasa Hayashi
- Ensign Yūsaku
Hirabayashi
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Keishi Hirama
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Sakae Hirashima
- Corporal Masato Hisanaga
- Ensign Kōichi Honda
- Ensign Sōji Horie
- Corporal Kan'ichi Horimoto
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Masami Hoshino
- Ensign Yasuo Ichijima
- Ensign Takatsugu Ichikawa
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Takeshi Ichikawa
- Ensign Takeshi Iinuma
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Nobuo Ikebuchi
- Second Lieutenant Tōru
Ikeda
- Second Lieutenant Hirohiko
Ikoma
- Sergeant Osamu Imanishi
- Ensign Taichi Imanishi
- Flight Petty Officer
2nd Class Nobutaka Inoue
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Nobuo Ishibashi
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class
Masayuki Ishii
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Seizō Ishikawa
- Second Lieutenant
Bun'ichi Ishikiriyama
- Second Lieutenant Saburō Ishikura
- Ensign Shin'ichi Ishimaru
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Setsuo Ishino
- Second Lieutenant Kōshirō Ishizuka
- Ensign Yasuhiko Isumi
- Flight Chief Petty Officer
Yasuo Itabashi
- Second Lieutenant Tōru
Itakura
- Ensign Eiji Itō
- Flight Petty Officer 1st Class Isao Itō
- Corporal Kōshirō Itō
- Second Lieutenant Nobuo
Itō
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Norio Itō
- Captain Yoshio Itsui
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Takeshi Iwashita
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Mitsuo Iyanaga
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Zen'ichi Jinushi
- Flight Petty Officer 1st Class
Takeshi Kado
- Corporal Shun'ichi Kagawa
- Flight Petty Officer 1st Class
Takayoshi Kai
- Ensign Shigeo Kaida
- Corporal Takeo Kakehashi
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Naoyoshi Kameda
- Sergeant Major Yoshinori
Kaminari
- Corporal Kazuki Kamitsu
- Ensign Masao Kanai
- Corporal Ryōkichi
Kanai
- Second Lieutenant Masao
Kaneko
- Flight Chief Petty Officer
Shigezō Kanno
- Ensign Cadet Shigeru Kano
- Flight Chief Petty Officer
Masanori Kariya
- Sergeant Takuzō Kasahara
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Seitarō Kashiwamura
- Captain Kisaku
Kataoka
- Sergeant Shunji Katō
- Corporal Torao Katō
- Maintenance Petty Officer 2nd
Class Toyohiko Katō
- Second Lieutenant Masashi
Katsura
- Ensign Haruhiko Kawa
- Second Lieutenant Kiyomi
Kawada
- Ensign Tadayoshi Kawahara
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Makoto Kawahira
- Ensign Hitoshi Kawai
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Tsutomu Kawajiri
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Toshimitsu Kawamura
- Flight Chief Petty Officer
Tadakuni Kawano
- Corporal Ichirō Kidokoro
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Masaaki Kijima
- Corporal Morio Kishida
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Jūjirō Kitamura
- Flight Warrant Officer Tokuo
Koami
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Fumio Kobayashi
- Second Lieutenant
Toshio Kobayashi
- Lieutenant Mitsuo Kodama
- Flight Warrant Officer
Takeshi Kogusuri
- Ensign Kōzō Koizumi
- Flight Chief Petty Officer
Takeshi Komatsu
- Second Lieutenant Takashi
Komecha
- Ensign Shizuo Komuro
- Second Lieutenant Hiroshi Konda
- Lieutenant Junior Grade Seiji Kōno
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Seiichi Kōsaku
- Corporal Shinji Koseki
- Sergeant Tetsurō Koya
- Ensign Seiichi Koyama
- Ensign Tadahiro Kubo
- Maintenance Petty Officer 1st
Class Tadayoshi Kubo
- Ensign Minoru Kuge
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Kōichi Kumada
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Mitsuo Kumakura
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Takahiro Kumakura
- Warrant Officer Takeo
Kunishige
- Sergeant Hidetoshi
Kuniyoshi
- Captain Masanobu Kuno
- Second Lieutenant Toshio
Kuramoto
- Cadet Toshio Kurimura
- Ensign Einosuke Kurosaki
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Hiroshi Kusumi
- Ensign Minoru Kuwano
- Ensign Michinori Machida
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Seiichi Maebashi
- Second Lieutenant Hiroshi
Maeda
- Flight Chief Petty Officer
Mitsuhiro Maki
- Ensign Osamu Makino
- Ensign Shigeru Masaki
- Corporal Matsuo Masubuchi
- Flight Leading Seaman
Tamotsu Matsubara
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Mitsuo Matsuda
- Corporal Shigeru Matsudo
- Flight Petty
Officer 1st Class Chiezō Matsumoto
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Gensaburō Matsumoto
- Flight Petty
Officer 1st Class Manabu Matsumoto
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Atsuo Matsunaga
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Isao Matsuo
- Lieutenant Keiu Matsuo
- Flight Petty Officer
1st Class Takumi Matsuo
- Corporal Yoshikatsu
Matsuzaki
- Second Lieutenant Heiichi
Matsuzawa
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Fumio Minagawa
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Itsuo Minetoma
- Corporal Teruo Mino
- Second Lieutenant Takeichi
Minoshima
- Ensign Susumu Misoka
- Lieutenant Kentarō
Mitsuhashi
- Sergeant Saburō Miyagawa
- Sergeant Tadashi Miyake
- Second Lieutenant Katsuhiko
Miyao
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Masayoshi Miyata
- Lieutenant Nobuo Miyatake
- Ensign Cadet Sakae Miyauchi
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Masaru Miyazaki
- Ensign Kōjirō
Mizoguchi
- Sergeant Keizō Mizokawa
- Ensign Sōichi Mizuchi
- Flight Petty Officer 1st Class
Saburō Mogi
- Flight Warrant Officer
Toshio Mogi
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Minoru Mori
- Second Lieutenant Osamu
Mōri
- Sergeant Tomosumi Mori
- Ensign Tetsushirō Morioka
- Ensign Kunihiro Moroi
- Ensign Bun'ya Motoi
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Takao Motokariya
- Second Lieutenant Keiichi
Motoshima
- Sergeant Kōichi Mukōjima
- Sergeant Yoshirō Munakata
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Katsutomo Murakami
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Seisaku Murata
- Flight Petty Officer
2nd Class Tamao Murata
- Second Lieutenant Yoshio Nagai
- Flight Leading Seaman
Hajime Nagamine
- Second Lieutenant
Yasaburō Nagamine
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Hiroshi Nagao
- Second Lieutenant Fukujirō
Nagashima
- Corporal Akihiko Nagasoe
- Corporal Toshio Nagata
- Flight Petty
Officer 1st Class Yoshiharu Nagata
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Masao Nagatomi
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Masanobu Nagazawa
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Masayoshi Nakahara
- Second Lieutenant
Tsunenobu Nakahara
- Second Lieutenant Hidehiko
Nakajima
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Kenji Nakajima
- Masaichi Nakamura
- Second Lieutenant Minoru
Nakamura
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Saiki Nakanishi
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Tatsuji Nakanishi
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Iwao Nakano
- Ensign Takenori Nakao
- Second Lieutenant Shigeru
Nakata
- Second Lieutenant
Toshitsune Namikawa
- Warrant Officer Shinsaku
Naniwa
- Second Lieutenant Matao Nara
- Ensign Hiroshi Nemoto
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Takamitsu Nishida
- Flight Warrant Officer
Hayao Nishiguchi
- Ensign Hiroshi Nishikawa
- Second Lieutenant Tadao
Nishimiya
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Masahiro Nishimoto
- Major Tsunesaburō Nishio
- Corporal Sukeo Nitta
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Hiroo Nobumoto
- Sergeant Tetsuo Noguchi
- Ensign Cadet Jun Nomoto
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Ryūzō Nomura
- Lieutenant Junior Grade Yuzuru
Ogata
- Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa
- Corporal Sakae Ogawa
- Sergeant Shin'ichi
Ogawa
- Second Lieutenant Ryōsuke
Ogiso
- Sergeant Major Haruo Ōhashi
- Corporal Hiroshi Ōhata
- Second Lieutenant Masashi Ōhira
- Second Lieutenant Hirotsugu
Ōide
- Ensign Masanori Ōishi
- Ensign Heiichi Okabe
- Second Lieutenant Isamu
Okamoto
- Second Lieutenant Akira
Okayasu
- Corporal Minoru Okazawa
- Ensign Takashi Ōkita
- Corporal Fujio Okiyama
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Fumitada Okiyama
- Second Lieutenant Ichirō
Ōno
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class
Yoshiaki Ono
- Flight Chief Petty Officer
Kazuo Osaka
- Second Lieutenant Hiroshi Ōshima
- Second Lieutenant Ryōichi
Ōtake
- Ensign Kunio Ōtani
- Flight Petty Officer
2nd Class Yasuyoshi Ōtani
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Korekiyo Otsuji
- Ensign Cadet Akio Ōtsuka
- Second Lieutenant Kaname Ōtsuka
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Makoto Saegusa
- Ensign Isamu Saitō
- Flight Petty Officer 1st Class
Yukio Saitō
- Corporal Yoshikazu
Sakakihara
- Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki
- Corporal Kiyoshi Sakamoto
- Flight Petty Officer 1st Class
Hajime Sano
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Akira Saragai
- Corporal Heikichi Sasaki
- Corporal Susumu Sasaki
- Ensign Akira Satō
- Ensign Kenji Satō
- Lieutenant Kiyoshi Satō
- Ensign Mitsuo Satō
- Sergeant Major Shinpei Satō
- Flight Chief Petty
Officer Shūzō Satō
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Hajime Sayama
- Ensign Toyooki Seki
- Lieutenant Yukio Seki
- Flight Chief Petty Officer
Hiroshi Sekiguchi
- Corporal Takamasa Senda
- Sergeant Takashige Seya
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Shōshichi Shibasaki
- Second Lieutenant Yoshio
Shibata
- Captain Ken'ichi Shibuya
- Ensign Takamaru Shigenobu
- Lieutenant Junior Grade Yomo
Shikata
- Corporal Hitoshi Shima
- Ensign Sumio Shima
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Ataru Shimamura
- Corporal Hajime
Shimizu
- Flight Petty Officer
2nd Class Kunio Shimizu
- Flight Petty
Officer 2nd Class Masaharu Shimizu
- Sergeant Yasuzō Shimizu
- Second Lieutenant
Yoshio Shimizu
- Ensign Katsumi Shinobe
- First Lieutenant Toru
Shinomiya
- Flight Chief
Petty Officer Fukushirō Shinozaki
- Ensign Shunji Shinozaki
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Hiroshi Shioda
- Ensign Masaaki Shirosaki
- Ensign Takashi Sōma
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Minoru Sueyoshi
- Ensign Yoshimune Suga
- Ensign Cadet Mikio Sugata
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Noriyoshi Sugimoto
- Sergeant Yoshitsugu Sunaga
- Ensign Kinji Suzuki
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Kōichi Suzuki
- Second Lieutenant
Kunihiko Suzuki
- Flight Petty Officer
1st Class Tatsuzō Suzuki
- Flight Chief Petty Officer
Shinzō Tabata
- Flight Chief Petty Officer Iwatarō
Tadano
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Hatsuji Tagami
- Corporal Toyoshi Takada
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Masamitsu Takahashi
- Corporal Megumu Takano
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Tsuyoshi Takase
- Second Lieutenant Shunzō
Takashima
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Kōshirō Takasu
- Second Lieutenant Takashi
Takayanagi
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class
Tsugio Take
- Corporal Genzō Takeda
- Flight Petty Officer
2nd Class Takeshi Takeda
- Flight Petty Officer 1st Class
Kaname Takeo
- Second Lieutenant Naofumi
Takiguchi
- Ensign Katsuyoshi Takuma
- Ensign Kōzō Tanaka
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Masaki Tanaka
- Corporal Osamu Tanaka
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Yasuo Tanaka
- Flight Leading Seaman Shōzō
Taniguchi
- Second Lieutenant Masayuki
Tatara
- Second Lieutenant Seizō
Tatsumi
- Sergeant Ikuichirō
Terasawa
- Lieutenant Junior Grade Shizuyo Todokoro
- Ensign Masaaki Tokitō
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Katsuhiko Tokoo
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Shunsuke Tomiyasu
- Second Lieutenant Kenji
Tomizawa
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Yukimitsu Tomizawa
- Second Lieutenant Kantarō
Tomoe
- Ensign Yūji Toyama
- Corporal Ryōichi Toyoda
- Ensign Tokuya Tsuda
- Ensign Tarō Tsukamoto
- Sergeant Jūji Uchimura
- Second Lieutenant Ryōji
Uehara
- Lieutenant
Masahisa Uemura
- Ensign Cadet Mitsuo
Uemura
- Flight Chief Petty
Officer Takao Uemura
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Norihide Uenishi
- Ensign Masanori Ueno
- Ensign Zenji Ueno
- Second Lieutenant Hiroharu
Ueshima
- Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki
- Corporal Fusao Ukegawa
- Corporal Yōji Umemura
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Hiroshi Urakami
- Sergeant Rokurō Urata
- Corporal Teruo Usami
- Second Lieutenant Yoshio Usui
- Ensign Minoru Wada
- Second Lieutenant Shōji
Wada
- Corporal Fujio Wakamatsu
- Sergeant Tatsuo Wakao
- Ensign Takashi Wakaomi
- Second Lieutenant Junjirō
Wakasugi
- Ensign Toshirō
Washimi
- Lieutenant Junior Grade
Yoshio Watahiki
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Ichirō Watanabe
- Ensign Kenjirō
Watanabe
- Corporal Kōzō
Watanabe
- Second Lieutenant
Satao Watanabe
- Second Lieutenant
Toshihiro Watanabe
- Corporal Tsugio
Watanabe
- Flight Petty
Officer 2nd Class Yoshizō Watanabe
- Ensign Tamotsu Watase
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Hiroshi Yabuta
- Second Lieutenant Satoshi Yagyū
- Second Lieutenant Ichirō
Yahagi
- Flight Petty Officer 1st
Class Rikiya Yamada
- Ensign Tetsuo Yamada
- Ensign Etsuzō Yamaga
- Ensign Kōji Yamagata
- Flight Petty Officer
2nd Class Kazuo Yamaguchi
- Corporal Keiki
Yamaguchi
- Ensign Masato
Yamaguchi
- Ensign Teruo
Yamaguchi
- Ensign Kinji Yamamoto
- Sergeant Masami
Yamamoto
- Second Lieutenant Miosaburō Yamamoto
- Corporal Takayuki
Yamamoto
- Ensign Shōzui Yamaoka
- Ensign Hisao
Yamashita
- Corporal Takayuki
Yamashita
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Hayashi Yamawaki
- Corporal Renzō Yanai
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Kiyoshi Yashiro
- Second Lieutenant Masafumi
Yasuhara
- Corporal Shōichi Yasui
- Lieutenant Junior
Grade Masaharu Yokohama
- Second Lieutenant Zenji
Yokoyama
- Second Lieutenant Yoshitarō
Yonezu
- Ensign Makoto Yoshida
- Sergeant Shigenori
Yoshihara
- Corporal Nariaki Yoshimizu
- Flight Petty Officer 2nd
Class Mitsuo Yoshinaga
- Flight Warrant Officer
Hisaoki Yoshizawa
- Ensign Isao Yui
- Ensign Shunsuke Yukawa
- Flight Chief Petty Officer
Masanori Yukimatsu
- Books
- Gordon, Facing Death: Last Writings of Japanese
Special Attack Corps Members
- Kawatoko, The Mind of the Kamikaze
- Lartéguy, ed.,
The Sun Goes Down: Last letters from Japanese suicide-pilots
and soldiers
- Nihon Senbotsu
Gakusei Kinen-Kai (Japan Memorial Society for the Students Killed in
the War—Wadatsumi Society), comp., Listen
to the Voices from the Sea: Writings of the Fallen Japanese Students (Kike
Wadatsumi no Koe)
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Ohnuki-Tierney, Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese
Student Soldiers
- Todai Gakusei
Jichi-kai Senbotsu Gakusei Shuki Hensan Iinkai (Committee for
Compiling the Writings of the University of Tokyo Students Killed in
the War, the University of Tokyo Student Council), comp., In the
Faraway Mountains and Rivers (Harukanaru Sanga ni): More Voices From
A Lost Generation of Japanese Students
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Ugaki,
Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945
- Yamashita,
Leaves from an Autumn of
Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
- Japanese Books
- Last Letters and Writings by
Senri Nagasue
- Survival: Nationwide
Pilgrimage to Request Friends' Last Writings
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