Bibliography

Suggestions for further reading

Axell, Albert & Hideaki Kase (2002). Kamikaze: Japan’s Suicide Gods. London: Pearson Education.

Batty, David (2004). Japan at War in Color. London: Carlton Books.

Blyth, R.H. (1963). A History of Haiku (Volumes One and Two). Tokyo: Hokuseido.

Brines, Russell (1944). Until They Eat Stones. New York: Lippincott.

Briscoe, Susan (2005). The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook. Devon, UK: David & Charles.

Cook, Haruko Taya & Theodore F. Cook (1992). Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press.

Crew, Quentin (1962). Japan: Portrait of Paradox. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons.

Dower, John W. (1993). Japan in War & Peace: Selected Essays. New York: New Press.

Dower, John W. (1999). Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: Norton/New Press.

Frédéric, Louis (Kathe Roth trans.) (2002). Japan: Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Guillain, Robert (William Byron, trans.) (1981). I Saw Tokyo Burning. Garden City: Doubleday.

Havens, Thomas R. H. (1978). Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two. New York: Norton.

Ienaga, Saburo (1978). The Pacific War, 1931–1945. New York: Pantheon Books.

Imamura, Shigeo. (2001). Shig: The True Story of an American Kamikaze. Baltimore: American Literary Press.

Jansen, Marius B. (2000). The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Belknap Press/Harvard.

Kuwahara, Yasuo & Gordon T. Allred (2007). Kamikaze: A Japanese pilot’s Own Spectacular Story of the Famous Suicide Squadrons. Clearfield, UT: American Legacy Media.

Mikesh, Robert C. (1993). Japanese Aircraft Code Names & Designations. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military/Aviation History.

Mikesh, Robert C. (1994). Zero: Combat & Development History of Japan’s Legendary Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International.

Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko (2002). Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko (2006). Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Peter, Carolyn (2006). A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope. Los Angeles: The UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.

Reichhold, Jane (2008). Basho: The Complete Haiku. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

Saito, Takafumi & William R. Nelson (2006). 102 Haiku in Translation: The Heart of Basho, Buson and Issa. North Charleston: BookSurge.

Senoh, Kappa (2002). A Boy Called H: A Childhood in Wartime Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

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Skulski, Janusz (2004). The Battleship Yamato: Anatomy of the Ship. Annapolis: The Naval Institute Press.

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Warner, Dennis & Peggy Warner, with Seno, Sadao (1982). The Sacred Warriors: Japan’s Suicide Legions. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

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Yoshimura, Akira (Vincent Murphy, trans.) (1999). Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the World’s Biggest Battleship. Tokyo: ­Kodansha International.