The Scars of War: Tokyo During World War II: Writings of Takeyama Michio

by Michio Takeyama

Book Overview

Takeyama Michio, the author of Harp of Burma, was thirty-seven in 1941, the year of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Husband, father of children born during the war, and teacher at Japan's elite school of higher education in Tokyo, he experienced the war on its home front. His essays provide us with a personal record of the bombing of Tokyo, the shortage of food, the inability to get accurate information about the war, the frictions between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742554805
• ISBN13: 9780742554801
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 8.9"