{"product_id":"japan-at-war-an-oral-history","title":"Japan at War An Oral History","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapan at War: An Oral History captures for the first time ever—in either Japanese or English—the remarkable story of ordinary Japanese people during World War II, tracing a trajectory from Japan’s 1930s campaigns in China to the Pacific battles, the Burma–Siam railway, and the home‑front devastation of firebombing and the atomic bombings. Built from candid, often harrowing eyewitness testimony—from front‑line soldiers and sailors to nurses, factory workers, settlers, artists, pressmen and perpetrators—the book reconstructs how militarism, atrocity, daily survival and postwar memory shaped Japanese society and provides a panoramic Japanese perspective on a conflict usually told from Allied viewpoints.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompiled and edited by Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook, the volume is organized around in‑depth oral interviews and covers an exceptionally broad geographic and social scope (Manchuria, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, the Philippines, Okinawa, Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Primarily text‑driven, it uses maps and diagrams to orient battles and hypocenter distances and includes limited illustrative photographs rather than extensive plates; its strength lies in being a monumental, primary‑source oral history that illuminates military, civilian and moral dimensions of the Asia‑Pacific war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW2 Bunker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44298893983846,"sku":"9781565840140","price":10.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/4926\/4998\/files\/0i_Ze_XCHzpOsjKo6RLGfc-3eCl3Lb8ZSI5Zn8wMTdk.jpg?v=1767231251","url":"https:\/\/ww2bunker.com\/products\/japan-at-war-an-oral-history","provider":"WW2 Bunker","version":"1.0","type":"link"}