About WW II

There is a website in Japan that I found while searching under "pikadon"
(the gitaigo/giongo for the Hiroshima A-bombing) with images from a book
by the same name. I don't have the reference at my fingertips, though.

And I have permission from the publisher to share a couple of pages of
extracts from Ulrich Straus' _The Anglish of Surrender_ giving the oral
history perspective of POW Japanese soldiers/sailors toward The Enemy.
Write me for a copy of the pages I scanned: wittevee@umich.edu

John K. Nelson's 1997 video, Rituals of Rememberance, (30 minutes) looks
at the commemorations around Japan in 1995 of the 50 year anniversary.
His 2005 (2006?) reexamination of Yasukuni Shrine, Spirits of the State, I
think it is titled, is good as well. It was reviewed in the AEMS (Asian
Educational Media Service, www.aems.uiuc.edu) newsletter about 12 months
ago and is archived there.

--Guven Witteveen, wittevee@umich.edu
Outreach Educator, University of Michigan
Center for Japanese Studies

=-=-= "Journey Nagasaki - The photographs of Yosuke Yamahata, August 10,
1945" ISBN: 0-87654-360-3 [suitable for 9th graders and older]

I strongly recommend this picture book to understand what happened in
Japan at the end of the WW II. People talked about Hiroshima a lot,
but Nagasaki was the one that totally made Japan surrender.

The descriptive texts were written in English and Japanese.
Those pictures are tough to look straight, but at the same time those
are so calm and quiet...
- m. morikawa