Dr. Samuel Hideo Yamashita Book Signing December 4, 2005

Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese.

This collection of diaries gives readers a powerful, firsthand look at the effects of the Pacific War on eight ordinary Japanese. Immediate, vivid and at times surprisingly frank, the diaries chronicle the last years of the war and its aftermath as experienced by a navy kamikaze pilot, an army straggler on Okinawa, an elderly Kyoto businessman, a Tokyo housewife, a young working woman in Tokyo, a teenage girl mobilized for war work and two school children evacuated to the countryside. Dr. Yamashita, the book author and the Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History at Pomona College, will give a short presentation and sign his book at this event.

JCCH Fifth Floor
Free