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040 _cNULRC
050 _aCT 25 .O1 1981
100 _aOsawa, Kiyoshi
_eauthor
245 2 _aA Japanese in the Philippines :
_ban autobiography
_cKiyoshi Osawa ; translated by Tsunesuke Kawashima ; edited by Ruthie Aquino
260 _aJapan :
_b[Shinchosha],
_cc1981
300 _av, 293 pages ;
_c19 cm.
505 _aPrologue -- 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.
520 _aI 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.
650 _aBIOGRAPHY
700 _aKawashima, Tsunesuke;Aquino, Ruthie
_etranslator;editor
942 _2lcc
_cREF
999 _c22012
_d22012