Front matter
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Edgar A. Porter and Ran Ying Porter
Amsterdam University Press
Preface
“Something Big Was Going to Happen”
Saiki Goes to War Footing
Admiral Yamamoto Comes to Saiki Conflicted Pride
One Million Souls, One Heart The Attack
Rallying the People
Quiet Doubts
“Leaving My Hometown”
A Buddhist Priest’s Gift for Hitler Oita Soldiers
On to Nanjing
Nanjing Legacy and the Pride of Oita Our Chinese Family Meets the 47 Securing Victory and Moving On
The War Expands and the People Mobilize Farmers and Fishermen
Guarding the Emperor
Empty Urns
Pure Spirit of the Saipan Children
Moral Education
Hiding the Truth
Military Education
Learning to Kill, Preparing to Die The Beatings
Creeping War Weariness
Fire from the Sky Prime Targets April 21, 1945
No Place to Hide
Filling the Craters and Building the Shelters
“I Shall Die with Pleasure”
Edgar’s Encounter with the Kamikaze Boy
Oita’s Kamikaze
Never-ending Sirens
Cancelling Classes and Evacuating Students Dodging Bullets and Delivering Babies
Child Scouts
Easy Targets
Taking Revenge: B-29 Is Downed Meanwhile on Okinawa
Donate Everything Children Join the Army Kamikaze Nightmares The Stench of Death
Eliminate the City Targeting Civilians Oita’s Heroic Nurse Too Many Bombs, Too few Targets
Oita’s Advisors to the Emperor Never Surrender The Advisors
The Lightning Bolt Digging In
Nursing the Wounded No Taste for Invasion
We Didn't Surrender — The War Just Ended The Emperor’s Voice
Poison for the Women
Defeated and Sent Home
Ugaki's Pride
Oita Men on the Missouri
Hungary, Confused, and Afraid Waiting
Occupation Plans
Running to the Hills
Bartering for Food
The Passion of a Mother Suffering Together
The Devil Comes Ashore Getting Acquainted Working for the Americans Searching for Contraband Confusion in the Classroom
A Bitter Homecoming Demobilized
Awkward Reunions
The Occupation Takes Hold Censorship and a New Order Baseball and Chocolate
The Americans Were So Wasteful
19 Miss Beppu, Crazy Mary, and William Westmorland The Call for Volunteers Closing the Houses — Sort Of Crazy Mary and Miss Beppu The Korean War and Exit from Beppu Conclusion Chronology of Japanese Historical Events, 1905-1957 List of Interviewees
Bibliography
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