Japanese War Memoir

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    • One American’s Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War’s Greatest Battle
    • By: Art Shaw, Robert L. Wise
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In celebration of the 75th anniversary, a riveting first-hand account of the Battle of Okinawa from the first officer ashore, who served at the front for the battle’s entire 82-day duration, heroism that earned him a Bronze Star....

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    • By: Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

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    • A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
    • By: Mark Harmon
    • Narrated by: Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them....

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    • One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
    • By: Kimi Cunningham Grant
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 401 ratings
    • Kimi’s Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth.....

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    • The Daring Escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp
    • By: Stephen L. Moore
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • As Good as Dead is one of the greatest escape stories of World War II. Endurance, determination, and courage in the face of death make this a gripping and inspiring saga of survival....

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    • The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
    • By: Ronald Drabkin
    • Narrated by: Sam Dewhurst-Phillips
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Ronald Drabkin tells the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland—a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars—who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor....

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    • By: Eric Lomax
    • Narrated by: Bill Paterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942....

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    • Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles Seen Through Japanese Eyes
    • By: Captain Tameichi Hara
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 807 ratings
    • This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its military insights....

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    • The Impossible Mission
    • By: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 943 ratings
    • The dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943 and engage in the longest dogfight in history....

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    • From a Japanese American Concentration Camp Rises an American War Hero
    • By: John Suzuki
    • Narrated by: John Suzuki
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In 2008, the author/narrator embarks on a poignant journey to Minidoka, one of the 10 former US concentration camps authorized by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor....

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    • The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
    • By: Michihiko Hachiya MD
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city....

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    • An American Guerrilla in the Philippines
    • By: Ray C. Hunt, Bernard Norling
    • Narrated by: Chaz Allen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Behind Japanese Lines has a great deal to say about the relations with the Filipinos and about the problems of dealing with and fighting the Hukbalahaps....

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    • A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream: A Memoir
    • By: Kiyo Sato
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored to build a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was ordered to Poston Internment Camp....

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    • A Forgotten Hero's Fight Against Fascism and Hate During World War II
    • By: Gregg Jones
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 07-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • Ben Kuroki was a twenty-four-year-old Japanese American farm boy whose heritage was never a problem in remote Nebraska—until Pearl Harbor. Among the millions of Americans who flocked to military stations to enlist, Ben wanted to avenge the attack, reclaim his family honor, and prove his patriotism.

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    • A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
    • By: Bradford Pearson
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West....

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    • Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese
    • By: John Glusman
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese....

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    • How Marine Corps General William H. Rupertus Broke the Back of the Japanese in World War II from Guadalcanal to Peleliu
    • By: Amy Rupertus Peacock, Don Brown
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Marine general William H. Rupertus is best known today for writing the Corps' Rifleman's Creed. Rupertus was one of the outstanding Marines of the twentieth century, but he died in 1945, so his story has never been told....

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    • Human Experimentation of the Forgotten Asian Auschwitz
    • By: Jenny Chan
    • Narrated by: Michelle Morgan
    • Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Euphemistically labeled as the "Water Supply and Prophylaxis Administration" and "HippoEpizootic Administration" of the Imperial Japanese Army, Unit 731 and Unit 100, as well as their subsidiary branches, performed human experimentation on innocents under the leadership of Dr. Shiro....

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    • The Story of a Japanese American Prisoner in a War That Never Ended: A Memoir
    • By: Kenichi Yabusaki
    • Narrated by: Nick Gallagher
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Gaman is a word that means strength in Japanese within the silence there is no yellow peril only the courage to be. Kenichi Yabusaki (Ken) was born a prisoner of war in an American concentration camp in Minidoka, Idaho.

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    • A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents
    • By: Mieke Eerkens
    • Narrated by: Mieke Eerkens
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • An engrossing, epic saga of one family’s experiences on both sides of WWII, All Ships Follow Me questions our common narrative of the conflict and our stark notions of victim and perpetrator, while tracing the lasting effects of war through several generations....

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