My Way: A Memoir of Hayawo Kiyama

Hayawo Kiyama was born in 1936 and grew up in Japan during the second world war. His autobiography, transcribed and edited by Christine Willis, captures the life and culture of that place and time as well as his and his family's suffering during the war. He learns to fish to help feed his family, and studies martial arts. There was great poverty and deprivation, and eventually the shock to the whole nation as well as his community and family of the dropping of the atomic bomb.

Hayawo's fat...