Daily life in wartime Japan, 1940-1945 / Samuel Hideo Yamashita.

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]

xi, 238 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index.

Part I. The home front -- We all are home-front soldiers now -- "No luxuries until the war is won" -- Part II. The evacuated children -- Making "splendid little citizens" -- Monitoring the evacuated children -- The "food problem" of evacuated children in wartime Japan -- Part III. The last resort -- Learning how to die -- Popular resistance to the wartime government and its policies -- The "jeweled sound".