A Japanese in the Philippines : an autobiography
Kiyoshi Osawa ; translated by Tsunesuke Kawashima ; edited by Ruthie Aquino
- Japan : [Shinchosha], c1981
- v, 293 pages ; 19 cm.
Prologue -- In the midst of a lost a war -- A boy's dream -- Sailing for the south -- An American in Basilan Island -- Beginning of business -- Landing of the Japanese imperial army -- Manila during the war -- Creeping up from the Abyss of death -- Path to survival -- Temporary Inn -- Return to the Philippines -- Epilogue.
I wanted to write - the way I see it, as a civilian - about how unnecessarily and recklessly the Japanese Army had invaded the Philippines, making the people suffer so. The desire to tell the Japanese of Filipino hospitality urged me to start and pushed me to finish this book. And all the time that I was writing, there was in my mind a very strong prayer that the Japanese race never repeat this crime.