...Richard H. Mitchell Requiem for Battleship Yamato . By Yoshida Mitsuru . Translated, and with an introduction, by Richard H. Minear . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1985 . xxxvi, 152 pp. Translator's Introduction, Illustrations, Notes. $16.95. Copyright © The Association...

... in the full scale war with China in 1937. The rest is very recent history—Pearl Harbor—Japan's rapid spread throughout the Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asia—Three and a half years of war, the atomic bombs—and surrender aboard the battleship Missouri . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... such targets as radio and telegraph installa- tions, merchant shipping, and the more vulnerable types of naval craft. His stratagem of the dummy battleships would seem to indicate that he considered battleships almost invulnerable to bombing attack. Japanese airmen were led to believe that their bombs had...

... tragedy of the entire war on the RN [Royal Navy] side" (Marder, p. 362); and for the man who revealed his greatness in times of disaster, "I do not remember any naval blow so heavy or so painful" (Churchill, p. 496). The Prince of Wales was "the last word in modern battleship design" (p. 378), the second...

... installa- tions, merchant shipping, and the more vulnerable types of naval craft. His stratagem of the dummy battleships would seem to indicate that he considered battleships almost invulnerable to bombing attack. Japanese airmen were led to believe that their bombs had resulted in the sinking of two new...

... Harbor attack (p. 71), but incorrect to say that Lieutenant Shirane also did (p. 266). Light cruiser San Juan is not a destroyer (p. 275). Many of the book's minor shortcomings could have been helped by an editor who knows Japanese and English. It makes no sense to say "eight battleships (Hachi)" (p. 173...

... In November 1920 with war the least imaginable of prospects Britain, the United States, and Japan continued to build battleships and plan for more. Only a year later, their leaders converged on Washington to achieve the most substantial arms limitation agreement ever. Roger Dingman seeks to account...

... more effort toward editorial acumen, for this edition contains many minor errors (such as giving "17.9" as the size of battleship Yamato's 18.1-inch guns, and frequent misspelling of proper names) and some major ones (such as saying that Palau is in the Marianas) which should have been avoided...

... while leading to an illicit arrangement between German and Japanese aircraft manufacturers. During the international disarmament wave of the 1920s, Japan used the scaling down of battleships to shift its focus to aircraft carriers, benefitting from transnational networks in naval aviation. By the 1930s...

... a battleship be sunk by air action alone? They sank two in the disasterous high noon of December 10, 1941. Gallagher's experiences on the Prince of Wales are vividly told and are perhaps the most accurate reporting in the book. This book is a reporter's account of nine eventful months in southeastern Asia...

..., the little brown men who couldn't fly planes because of defective vision and an impaired sense of balance due to malformation of the middle ear, settled once and for all the old argument: Can a battleship be sunk by air action alone? They sank two in the disasterous high noon of December 10, 1941...

... more effort toward editorial acumen, for this edition contains many minor errors (such as giving "17.9" as the size of battleship Yamato's 18.1-inch guns, and frequent misspelling of proper names) and some major ones (such as saying that Palau is in the Marianas) which should have been avoided...

... chapter, Hutchinson looks at the depictions of World War II in Japanese games and the strategies developers have taken to make these representations less fraught—having the players play the Allies, centering the critique of war, or (in one disturbing example) turning historical battleships into sexualized...

... the Pacific and altering the balance of naval power in a flash. The power of the attack was not found in the battleships, which were hardly engaged, or in the excellent cruisers, formidable torpedoes, or accurate shooting and expertise in night engagement tactics that showed themselves later in 1942...

... in the battleships, which were hardly engaged, or in the excellent cruisers, formidable torpedoes, or accurate shooting and expertise in night engagement tactics that showed themselves later in 1942 in the Java Sea and off Guadalcanal. Rather, it was the fleet-air arm the carrier-borne planes off Hawaii and the land...

... further research. WILLIAM D. HOOVER University of Toledo Requiem for Battleship Yamato. By YOSHIDA MITSURU. Translated, and with an introduction, by RICHARD H. MINEAR. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985. xxxvi', 152 pp. Translator's Introduction, Illustrations, Notes. $16.95. This is the first...

... by a surviving officer, Yoshida Mitsuru, in Senkan Yatnato no saigo (1952), translated by Richard H. Minear as Requiem for Battleship Yamato (Seattle: 404 T H E J O U R N A L OF ASIAN STUDIES University of Washington Press, 1985), p. 35. Spector accepts the hoary view that the USS Panay was deliberately sunk...

... to the "Missouri" by Toshikazu Kase must be considered in this light. Mr. Kase's book is unique in the literature of the vanquished; for its surprisingly frank survey of the course of Japanese aggression from the outbreak of the Manchurian Incident in 1931 to the surrender of the Japanese aboard the battleship...

... have profitably directed more effort toward editorial acumen, for this edition contains many minor errors (such as giving "17.9" as the size of battleship Yamato's 18.1-inch guns, and frequent misspelling of proper names) and some major ones (such as saying that Palau is in the Marianas) which should...

... production during the occupation years. Ehrlich's chapter concentrates on only two films, both produced long after the occupation ended Imamura Sh5hei's Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan, 1961) and Shinoda Masahiro's MacArthur's Children (Setouchi shonen yakyudan, 1984). Certainly, anyone interested...