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Bajo Palabra
Akira Yoshimura

Emece Editores, 2002

4 reviews

Praeger Trade, 1996

a book with many flaws, but still interesting
The first 5 pages of the book are the best. The contrast of a sophisticated new fighter plane being transported to the airfield for its maiden flight on two oxcarts is beautifully described. Unfortunately, the book goes downhill from there. The author seems too emotional about the A5M and A6M fighters. He describes them as the best and fastest fighters in the world. "Best" is arguable, ...

Shipwrecks

24 reviews
Akira Yoshimura

Topeka Bindery, 2000

The Ocean giveth, and The Ocean taketh away
If you live in a rural Japanese fishing village, then the Ocean is everything. Absolutely everything you have, your possessions, your very life, is pulled from its churning depths. You worship it like a god, and ask its blessing and fear its retribution. Your skill in managing its mysteries determines your status, who you can marry, how many children you can have, everything. "Shipwrecks" ...

Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the Worlds Biggest Battleship

15 reviews
Akira Yoshimura

Kodansha International, 1999

NOT WHAT I EXPECTED -- BUT A PLEASANT SURPRISE NEVERTHELESS
IN A NUTSHELL: A TRUE STORY ABOUT THE MIND SET OF A DESPERATE JAPAN The book is a short, easy, and an interesting read for most people acquainted with naval construction and operations. It is broken into two distinct parts; the construction of the ship [under a cloak of extreme secrecy], and its short life as one of a class of two, of the most extreme battleship designs ever constructed. Both ...

Storm Rider

3 reviews
Akira Yoshimura

Harvest Books, 2005

For history lovers interested in the opening of Japan.
The well known, true story of Manjiro, a young Japanese sailor lost at sea, rescued by American sailors, and brought to the US, where he learned English and later worked as an interpreter, is the framework for this study of the opening of Japan to trade. The fictional Hikotaro, who became Hikozo, and later Joseph Heco, is thirteen in 1850, when he is rescued by an American ship from a rudderless ...

One Man's Justice

4 reviews
Akira Yoshimura

Harvest Books, 2002

...aka The Fugitive
PUBLISHED IN JAPAN in 1978, this is the third of Yoshimura's provocative novels to appear in translation. Set over the decade following the end of WWII (and with flashbacks to the final days of the war), the novel explores themes of patriotism and war though Kiyohara Takuya, a Japanese officer on the run from occupying American forces. He is wanted as a war criminal for his role in the execution ...

Build the Musashi: The Birth and Death of the World's Greatest Battleship

3 reviews
Akira Yoshimura

Kodansha International (JPN), 1991

Reprinting
This book has been reprinted with the new title: Battleship Musashi, The Making and Sinking of the World's Biggest Battleship.

On Parole (Harvest Book)

19 reviews
Akira Yoshimura

Harvest Books, 2000

Wow! So much in so small a book!
I liked this book very much. It appealed strongly to my emotions and to my intellect, and it stayed with me long after I finished the final chapter. What is the nature of justice? What are the limits of freedom? What is the value of human life? Why do we find some murders less reprehensible than others and punish them with lesser sentences? When rehabilitation works, who deserves the ...