Female Japanese POWs Were Shocked by the Smell of Pork in U.S. Camps-ZZ
Arizona, 1945. Dawn breaks over a prison camp in the middle of the desert. Then it hits. A smell thick, heavy, strange. It creeps through…
Read moreWhat Japanese High Command Said After Reading U.S. Demands for Surrender-ZZ
July 27th, 1945, 300 hours. Tokyo. A 13 paragraph ultimatum transmitted through neutral Switzerland would expose the fatal fracture in Japan’s government. Not whether they…
Read moreWhat Japanese High Command Said When They Compared Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing Reports-ZZ
Two cities, three days apart, two completely different bomb designs. When Dr. Yoshio Nisha placed the field reports side by side and told Japan’s military…
Read moreWhat Japanese Pilots Said After Hiroshima Went Silent-ZZ
There is no city, sir. Only nothing. Captain Mitsuo Fua struggled to find words for what he’d witnessed from his cockpit. For 3 hours, Tokyo…
Read moreWhat Japanese High Command Said When They Found Out They Lost The Battle of Midway-ZZ – Part 2
Captain Mitsuo Fuida, who had led the air attack on Pearl Harbor and survived midway aboard the carrier Akagi, began assembling his account of the…
Read moreWhat Japanese High Command Said When They Found Out They Lost The Battle of Midway-ZZ
June 1942 and the Imperial Japanese Navy was supposed to deliver a knockout blow at Midway. Instead, disaster struck. When the first reports reached Admiral…
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