Tattered Kimonos in Japan: Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II

Examines Japan's war generation-Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives from memories of that conflict.

Since John Hersey's Hiroshima-the classic account, published in 1946, of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of that city-very few books have examined the meaning and impact of World War II through the eyes of Japanese men and women who survived that conflict. Tattered Kimonos in Japan does just that: It is an intimate journey into contemporary Japan from...