Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War

This acclaimed work is an extraordinary collection of letters written by a wide cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war. "SENSO" provides the general reader and the specialist with moving, disturbing, startling insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry and its government. It is an invaluable index of Japanese public opinion about the war. Chapter 1 The Road to War; Chapter 2 Life in the Military; Chapter 3 The China War; Chapter 4 The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; Chapter 5 The War in the Pacific; Chapter 6 The Home Front; Chapter 7 The Bombing of Japan; Chapter 8 “We Are All Prisoners”; Chapter 9 Japan Under Occupation; Chapter 10 Rethinking the War Experience; Chapter 11 Reassessment: Causes of War;