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Major Ted William Lawson (March 7, 1917 – January 19, 1992) was an American officer in the United States Army Air Forces, who is known as the author of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, a memoir of his participation in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942. The book was subsequently adapted into the 1944 film of the same name starring Spencer Tracy ...
[155] [156] Okada resigned, blaming himself for the troubles that occurred under his administration, but he continued as a politician who had a major influence on Japanese politics until the end of World War II. [156] Tatsukichi was forced to resign, and his books were banned until the end of the war. [157]
The third area of research Hasegawa has conducted is an international history involving the Soviet Union, the United States, and Japan in ending the allied war with Japan. As the United States dropped its first atomic bombs on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, 1.6 million Soviet troops launched a surprise attack on the Japanese forces that occupied ...
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a history book written by John W. Dower and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1999. [1] The book covers the difficult social, economic, cultural and political situation of Japan in the aftermath of World War II and the nation's occupation by the Allies between August 1945 and April 1952, delving into topics such as the administration ...
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 American war film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo is based on the 1943 book of the same name by Captain Ted W. Lawson . Lawson was a pilot on the historic Doolittle Raid , America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan, four months after the December 7, 1941, Japanese ...
Mission to Tokyo: The American Airmen Who Took the War to the Heart of Japan. Minneapolis: MBI Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-7603-4122-3. Dower, John W. (1986). War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-14605-8. Downes, Alexander B. (2008). Targeting Civilians in War. Ithaca, New York: Cornell ...
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A Tale for the Time Being is a metafictional novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl living in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off the coast of British Columbia who finds the diary of the young woman washed ashore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan.