Japan

Image of One Sunny Day: A Child's Memories of Hiroshima
Author(s):
Hideko Tamura Snider
Genre(s):
History, Personal Memoir, Japan, World War II

One Sunny Day: A Child's Memories of Hiroshima

January 7, 2024
Reviewed by: 
Richard Crepeau

With the media focused on the bombing of civilians in Ukraine and Gaza, revisiting the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and its impact on the civilian population, seems timely.

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Image of To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945
Author(s):
John C. McManus
Genre(s):
Nonfiction, History, World War II, Asia, Japan, U.S., Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Military

To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945

May 16, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Francis P. Sempa

“McManus provides an infantryman’s view of warfare at its dirtiest and bleakest.”

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Image of A History of Japan in Manga: Samurai, Shoguns and World War II
Author(s):
Kanaya Shunichiro
Translator(s):
Zack Davisson
Genre(s):
Graphic, Nonfiction, Comics, & Cartoons, History, Japan, Military History & Affairs

A History of Japan in Manga: Samurai, Shoguns and World War II

May 15, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Marissa Moss

"A solid introduction to a complicated history and a good model for innovative uses of graphics to make history come alive."

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Image of Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Author(s):
Evan Thomas
Genre(s):
World War II, Military History & Affairs, History, Japan, Asia

Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

May 15, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Joseph Barbato

“A nuanced, absorbing, and perhaps definitive story of the last weeks of World War II.”

Japan was unwilling to surrender.

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Image of Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
Author(s):
Bruce Henderson
Genre(s):
History, U.S., Japan, Military History & Affairs, World War II

Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II

October 12, 2022
Reviewed by: 
Marissa Moss

“A magnificent job of bringing this little-known history into the full glorious light where it belongs.”

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Image of Japan at War in the Pacific: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Asia: 1868-1945
Author(s):
Jonathan Clements
Genre(s):
History, Asia, Japan, Military History & Affairs

Japan at War in the Pacific: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Asia: 1868–1945

May 9, 2022
Reviewed by: 
Francis P. Sempa

“Jonathan Clements’ new book Japan at War in the Pacific is a lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan . . .”

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Image of Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
Author(s):
Lesley M.M. Blume
Genre(s):
Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Journalists, History, U.S., 20th Century, Japan

Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

August 4, 2020
Reviewed by: 
Lew Whittington

“At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the

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Image of Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
Author(s):
Richard McGregor
Genre(s):
Diplomacy, Japan, China

Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

September 3, 2017
Reviewed by: 
Jerry Lenaburg

“essential primer for anyone seeking to understand the complicated brew of history, politics, and prejudices that make this area of the globe one of the most likely flashpoints of the 21st

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