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Tales by Japanese Soldiers by Kazuo Tamayama & John Nunneley
Tales by Japanese Soldiers by Kazuo Tamayama & John Nunneley
Soft Cover
254 pages
Copyright 2000
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 8
Preface 10
Introduction by Alan Hiscock 13
1 TO RANGOON January to March 1942
1 From China to Burma Koji Kawamata 26
2 Advance to Tavoy Buhachiro Nakai 29
3 Night Attack with Bayonet Tadashi Suzuki 33
4 The Battle of Bilin Koji Kawamata 34
5 The Sittang Bridge Yoshizo Abe 38
6 Securing the Hill Overlooking the Sittang Shiro Tokita 40
7 First into Rangoon Koji Kawamata 41
8 Pushing on to Rangoon Tokutaro Mizushima 43
9 The First Message from Rangoon Toshio Miura 46
10 Attacking the Last Train Seiichi Aoyama 47
11 A Disaster at Pegu Toshiaki Tadokoro 51
12 A Japanese Lady in Syriam Sojiro Maeda 55
2 ADVANCE March to June 1942
13 Advance to the North Masakichi Kanbayashi 60
14 The Battle Begins Yasushi Sakamaki 62
15 A Brave Enemy Soldier Misao Sato 63
16 Tank Attack Kesazou Higuchi 64
17 Enemy Tanks Advance and Retreat Tatsuya Maruyama 65
18 Heavy Fighting at Thadodan Umeo Tokita 67
19 Attack on Kokkogwa Yoshiro Tsukagoshi 71
20 Defeat at Kokkogwa Shiro Tokita 73
21 Entering Yenangyaung Yoshizo Abe 75
22 Hot Breakfast Keiichi Yokoshima 76
23 A Sharp Action Jin-ichi Abe 77
24 A Flag of Truce Mitsuru Ishida 78
25 On the Road from Yenangyaung Ryozo Watanabe 79
26 Reinforce Yenangyaung! Shuukou Namba 81
27 Prelude to the Battle of Monywa Kenji Ohara 82
28 Gun Versus Tank Yoshiyuki Kobayashi 83
29 The Advance on Shwegyin Hiroshi Ishikawa 85
30 A Hard Fight Masaichi Nagai 86
31 On the Road to Mandalay Toshihiro Matsumura 88
32 Cholera! Mibu Hirano 91
33 Zero Versus Hurricane Yoshito Yasuda 92
3 OCCUPATION July to December 1942
34 Angels in White Uniforms Katsumi Ohno 98
35 Fishing Isawo Aihara 100
36 A Soldier Servant Yoshiaki Masuda 102
37 Supplying Water to Soldiers Shuichiro Yoshino 105
38 Taunggyi to Kalewa Denkichi Yatsuda 109
39 General Sakurai Eiichi Sugimoto 111
40 Chasing Chindits Shinsaku Honma 116
4 ARAKAN OPERATIONS January 1943 to March 1944
41 To Akyab Naoyuki Aikawa 122
42 Donbaik Takeo Kawakami 123
43 Fighting for Indin Satoru Inazawa 129
44 Horseshoe Hill Shouhichi Namikoshi 132
45 An Enemy Officer's Surrender Yoshiki Saito 136
46 Killed by Friendly Fire Tadahiro Ogawa 139
47 A Secret War Toyoichi Katou 142
48 Sinzweya the Turning Point Toshiyuki Sakano 144
49 A Hard Road to Buthidaung Satoru Inazawa 148
5 IMPHAL AND KOHIMA March to July 1944
50 The Battle of Singgel Kazuyoshi Nakahara 152
51 Sangshak and Kohima Shosaku Kameyama 156
52 Feeding a Battalion Masao Hirakubo 171
53 Drifting Down the Wild Chindwin Manabu Wada 172
54 Horses and Oxen Seiryo Yamashita 187
55 Naval Guard in Irrawaddy Delta Hiroshi Yoshida 192
56 Those Forsaken by God Yasumasa Nishiji 196
6 RETREAT August 1944 to August 1945
57 The Battle on the Irrawaddy River Kazuo Imai 216
58 Mawchi Road Satoru Inazawa 222
59 The General and a Soldier Masao Kojima 225
60 Nurses Escaped from Hell Hideko Nagai 227
61 Japanese Nurses at a British Hospital Fusako Ikeda 236
62 The Hukawng Valley and Meiktila Shuichiro Yoshino 242
Notes 246
The Authors 253
ON THE BACK COVER
Over 305,000 Japanese soldiers fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945; 180,000 of them died. This book tells how the common soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army lived, fought and died in that terrible conflict. Here are straightforward, honest accounts translated from the Japanese sometimes moving, often shocking, of what it was like to fight a strange war in a strange country, far from home, short of food and weapons, confused, facing death from disease and starvation as well as enemy action. The sixty-two 'tales' trace the Burma campaign in chronological sequence and together offer a new perspective on a long and arduous war.
Dr Kazuo Tamayama, secretary of the Japan-British Society, was appointed an honorary MBE in 1998. His co-author John Nunneley was appointed an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2001 for services to Anglo-Japanese relations.
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