War Monument Encyclopedia #1

Description

This is a book or magazine about tanks/AFVs and/or military modeling.

A lot of WW2-related ruins and monuments still remain throughout Japan and the rest of Asia. This book is written as a guidebook for those ruins and monuments, most of which are left forgotten to history.

The author organized the monuments within Japan by region, from Hokkaido to Okinawa. If you would like to know, for example, about the ruins in Kyoto, they are written under the chapter covering the Kinki region. Many monuments in other parts of Asia are written about in detail as well. The exact location and the current situation of the ruins of the infamous IJA 731 group, or “the Bridge on the River Kwai” has also been researched in detail. An access map for each ruin is also provided to help you visit those ruins one day!

All text is in Japanese; in order to understand what is written in this book, good Japanese reading ability is recommended. Those who are interested in the forgotten history of WW2 will find this book very interesting. Also recommended for academic research purposes.

421 pages, hard cover.