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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

Japan

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  The Japanese Chronicles by Nicolas Bouvier

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  This is a collection of travel stories and anecdotes from over a life spent travelling through Japan. Perceptive, sensitive observations mingle with Japanese history and myth, and are accompanied by the author's own startling illustrations.

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  Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey

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  Australia's greatest living novelist accompanies his teenage son to Tokyo in a quest to discover the secrets of anime. A touching work of paternal reflection that also sheds new light on contemporary Japan.

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  Nemesis by Max Hastings

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  Lively, authoritative, well-researched history of the 1944-1945 war against Japan. A mix of first-hand experiences from British, American, Russian, Japanese and Chinese soldiers and historical account of the events and command decisions that shaped this epic struggle.

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  Hiroshima by John Hersey

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  John Hersey's appalling, heart-breaking account of six survivors of the Hiroshima bomb one year after it fell killing 100,000 people. The final chapter deals with his return in 1986, to discover what had happened to those people. An important, vivid, inferno of a book.

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  Letters from Iwo Jima by Kumiko Kakehashi

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  The gruelling, remarkable story of the Battle of Iwo Jima, where a small group of Japanese soldiers held off against US marines for 36 days, knowing they were all going to die. Kumiko Kakehashi has built her story from the letters written home by these doomed soldiers, revealing a heartbreaking and far more human image of the Japanese army.

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  Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

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  The mesmerising autobiography of one of Japan's most respected authors, Yukio Mishima. This universal story of alienation and adolescence, describes his isolated childhood growing up with his grandmother in post-war Japan, his developing homosexuality and his obsession with death.