Requiem for Battleship Yamato explained

Requiem for Battleship Yamato (Japanese: 戦艦大和ノ最期, lit. The Last Days of the Battleship Yamato (Senkan Yamato no Saigo)) is a book by Mitsuru Yoshida. It tells the story of the Japanese battleship Yamato's last battle, Operation Ten-Go in 1945, when the ship was sunk, which the author experienced himself. It was first published in 1949. The book was partially censored by Americans during the occupation of Japan.^[1] It was later rewritten several times and published in various forms. The book became influential, and became a basis of 1953 film and 1990 TV series .

An English version, translated by Richard H. Minear, was published in 1985 under the title Requiem for Battleship Yamato.^{[2] [3]}

Further reading

• Book: David Stahl . Hayter . Irena . Sipos . George T. . Williams . Mark . Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan . Routledge . 2021 . 9780429280559 . Mythic reality, battlefield survival and psychosocial conversion in Yoshida Mitsuru’s The End of Battleship Yamato.
• Shunichi Takekawa . Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University . Fusing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan: The Battleship Yamato and Popular Culture . japanesestudies.org.uk . 1 May 2012 . 8 November 2024 . en-gb.
• Book: Gerow . Aaron . Berry . Michael . Sawada . Chiho . Divided Lenses . 31 January 2016 . University of Hawaii Press . 978-0-8248-5817-9 . 196–219 . en . 9. War and Nationalism in Recent Japanese Cinema: Yamato, Kamikaze, Trauma, and Forgetting the Postwar.

Notes and References

1. Smith . Christopher . Yoshida Mitsuru’s 1946 “The End of the Battleship Yamato” . Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature . 14 November 2019 . 34 . 2 . 247–260 . 10.5744/delos.2019.1026 . 8 November 2024 . en.
2. Mitchell . Richard H. . Requiem for Battleship Yamato. By Yoshida Mitsuru. Translated, and with an introduction, by Richard H. Minear. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985. xxxvi, 152 pp. Translator's Introduction, Illustrations, Notes. $16.95. . The Journal of Asian Studies . August 1986 . 45 . 4 . 868–869 . 10.2307/2056124 . 8 November 2024 . en . 1752-0401.
3. Web site: Requiem for Battleship Yamato . www.kamikazeimages.net . 8 November 2024.