Download or read book Awa Maru Titanic of Japan written by Rei Kimura and published by Booksmango. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 1st of April 1945, a Japanese hospital ship that had been given 'safe passage' by the Allies, in the dead of night, was mistaken for a military vessel and torpedoed by the American submarine 'Queenfish.' It sank within minutes taking almost all of the 2007 passengers to their watery graves. This is the gripping story of the Awa Maru, the little known 'Titanic of Japan.' Follow the journey of Kyoko Tanaka, whose parents and brother had been passengers on the Awa Maru as she set sail on her own voyage of discovery. She travels from Japan to Singapore in search of the truth and a 'piece of her history' and makes poignant and touching discoveries of the lives of her parents and some of the other families as they prepared to board the Awa Maru. The lives of the doomed passengers of the Awa Maru and the events of that horrific night when they perished are all told in this book as never before.
Download or read book Awa Maru written by Rei Kimura and published by Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ini adalah cerita Awa Maru yang memikat, Titanik Jepang yang sangat jarang diketahui orang dan baru pertama kali ditungkan ke dalam buku ini. Kami mengikuti perjalanan Kyoto Tanaka yang orangtua dan kakak laki-lakinya berangkat dengan kapal dalam pelayaran penyelidikannya. Kyoto Tanaka melakukan perjalanan dari Jepang ke Singapura untuk mencari kebenaran dari sebuah serpihan sejarahnya dan mengikuti kisah hidup orangtuanya dan beberapa kerabat lain yang pedih dan menyentuh sewaktu bersiap-siap berangkat dengan Awa Maru. Nasib Malang penumpang Awa Maru dan Kejadian malam yang mengerikan saat mereka tewas adalah sebuah kisah yang belum pernah dituangkan ke dalam buku lain
Download or read book Awa Maru written by Rei Kimura and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost of War written by Roger Dingman and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington promised to indemnify Tokyo for destroying the passenger-cargo vessel, yet not one penny was paid to the Japanese after the war, and Americans soon forgot about the tragedy. For the Japanese, however, it became a symbol of their victimization in and recovery from the Pacific war.
Download or read book In Titanic s Shadow written by David Williams and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the near 1,500 victims of Titanic accounted for a huge loss of life, each of the ships here had a greater number of casualties, in some cases more than five times as many. In total, these 27 merchant ship sinkings resulted in a staggering loss of life at sea – more than 96,000 in total, 3,840 per ship. While the circumstances were different to Titanic, the outcome in each case was no less tragic. Yet, despite the fact that Titanic ranks behind so many other losses, so powerful has her name become that it was the inevitable choice to describe some of these other events, ‘Germany’s Titanic’ and ‘The Titanic of Japan’ being two examples. Ships include the Lancastria, Britain’s worst maritime disaster with 3,000 lost; the Ryusei Maru, a Japanese ‘Hellship’ loaded with 6,000 Allied POWs, torpedoed by a US submarine; and the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German liner packed with 7,800 civilians, sunk by a Russian submarine. There were no survivors and this tragedy was the worst maritime disaster of all time.
Download or read book In Titanic s Shadow written by David L. Williams and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the near 1,500 victims of Titanic accounted for a huge loss of life, each of the ships here had a greater number of casualties, in some cases more than five times as many. In total, these 27 merchant ship sinkings resulted in a staggering loss of life at sea – more than 96,000 in total, 3,840 per ship. While the circumstances were different to Titanic, the outcome in each case was no less tragic. Yet, despite the fact that Titanic ranks behind so many other losses, so powerful has her name become that it was the inevitable choice to describe some of these other events, 'Germany's Titanic' and 'The Titanic of Japan' being two examples. Ships include the Lancastria, Britain's worst maritime disaster with 3,000 lost; the Ryusei Maru, a Japanese 'Hellship' loaded with 6,000 Allied POWs, torpedoed by a US submarine; and the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German liner packed with 7,800 civilians, sunk by a Russian submarine. There were no survivors and this tragedy was the worst maritime disaster of all time.
Download or read book The Samurai s Secret written by Rei Kimura and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a Japanese samurai of impeccable lineage in Edo period Japan get away with being gay? Can he break all the rules of society and get away with it? It all started when an aging samurai took an eccentric interest in a teenage peasant boy who had the unusual gift of writing. One day he brought his son, Lord Okimoto to the peasant’s house. Immediately when their gazes met, the samurai’s son and the teenage peasant, a forbidden love affair formed, an affair which broke all the rules of Japan’s Edo period society and a feudal class so sharply defined that it could cut like a knife. Four centuries later, an ancestor of Lord Okimoto finds a diary written by his peasant lover unfolding the anguished tale of a forbidden life went wrong, leaving behind a trail of broken hearts, shattered dreams and destroyed lives. The tale of the gay samurai who put duty and obligations above his poignant love travels one whole circle to arrive to the 21st century in a final twist to this intriguing story of how two young men dared to break all the rules in conservative unforgiving 18th century Japan.
Download or read book USS Pampanito written by Gregory F Michno and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most World War II submarine stories are glorifications of war written by submarine captains about their own boats. But the USS Pampanito was not a typical submarine. The sub and its crew caused plenty of destruction, but they found the pinnacle of their honor and fame in a dramatic sea rescue. Gregory F. Michno relates the experiences of the crewmen—both enlisted men and officers—who served on the USS Pampanito. The Pampanito story begins with the boat's construction in 1943, continues through its six combat missions, and concludes with its decommissioning after the war in 1945. The heart of the book is the September 12, 1944, attack on a Japanese convoy carrying English and Australian POWs from the Burma-Siam Railway (of Bridge on the River Kwai fame) to prison camps in Japan. The Pampanito helped sink two of the prison ships, unwittingly killing hundreds of Allied soldiers, but then returned to rescue the survivors. The crew picked a record seventy-three men from the sea.
Download or read book Indian National Bibliography written by B. S. Kesavan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Icons of Evolution written by Brian Regal and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a set of clear, understandable explanations for the evidence for evolution and why that evidence is so important for the understanding of the origins of life.
Download or read book Coins and Currency written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of tobacco, and sea salt blocks. As art and technology advanced, monetary systems and currencies altered. Today, coins and currency provide an historical and archeological record of culture, religion, politics, and world leaders. This updated second edition offers numerous entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics, and the arts. It begins with the origin of coins in ancient Sumer, and follows advancements in metallurgy and minting machines to paper, plastic, and electronic moneys designed to ease trade and halt counterfeiting and other forms of theft. A timeline of monetary history is provided along with a glossary and bibliography. Numerous photographs of coins and bills provide an up-close look at beautiful and ingenious artifacts.
Download or read book The Last Voyage of the Arisan Maru written by Dale Wilber and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Itas October 24, 1944, and youave been a prisoner of war of the Japanese Empire for over twenty-nine months. Youave been held in the hold of a Japanese transport along with almost eighteen hundred other prisoners for over two weeks on your way to Japan. At least you think itas been that long; itas hard to be certain of anything anymore. The stench in the ships of sweat, urine and smells that are hard to place is almost overwhelming. You think it late in the afternoon but youare not certain. Your watch, along with everything else of value, was stolen by the Japanese long ago. You should eat soon and maybe get some water to take the dryness out of the tongue. Then suddenly a large ship-shaking explosion followed by silence and then a scream of men fearing the worst. A nearby sailor prisoner says one word: aTorpedo!a
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Download or read book Three Years in Tibet written by Ekai Kawaguchi and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about an amazing three-year journey from 1899 to 1902 of a Buddhist monk from Japan making his way into Tibet which was closed to almost all foreigners at the time. The author provides a fascinating view of the culture, society, justice, domestic relations, politics, religion, etc. Kawaguchi a very admirable and knowledgeable figure also provides insight to the politics of Japan, Britain, Russia and the international relationships in Central Asia.
Download or read book Japanese Naval and Merchant Shipping Losses During World War II by All Causes written by United States. Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
