Special Agent Bob · 2022-03-30 16:49
Could you recommend some good books about WWII in Japan and its consequences for this country? The books can also cover the post-war topics. Fiction is preferred.
Boris Grishenko · 2023-02-24 02:15
Barefoot Gen: After the Bomb and its earlier version, I Saw It, are both good, but very very gruelling.
Cypher · 2023-02-24 02:21
>>7462
Check the other japan thread.
Black Rain by Ibuse is a classic.
Joey · 2023-02-24 04:22
>>7462
>So far from the Bamboo Grove
Watkins's book takes place in the last days of 35 years of Korea's annexation by Japan. An eleven-year-old Japanese girl, Yoko Kawashima, whose father works for the Japanese government, must leave her home in Nanam, part of northern Korea, as her family escapes south to Seoul, then to Busan, to return to Japan.
It made Koreans seethe