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Amazon.ca: Requiem for Battleship Yamato: Books: Yoshida Mitsuru,Mitsuru Yoshida,Richard H. Minear (1645 words) |
 | Yoshida was one of Yamato's radar of ficers, and one of the few survivors. |
| Yoshida was on the bridge during Yamato's fatal encounter with American airplanes, and his eloquent, moving account of that battle makes a singular contribution to the literature of the Pacific war. |
| Yoshida's prose satisfactorily captures the spirit on board the Yamato prior to its climactic encounter. |
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Requiem for Battleship Yamato (821 words) |
| Yoshida writes in a terse style, depicting nearly all events from his viewpoint as a junior officer on Yamato. |
| However, Yoshida finds out later that this woman was not his girlfriend, but rather his younger sister, now completely alone in the world since her parents had died, and she had no other brothers or sisters. |
| Yoshida and less than ten percent of his shipmates survived, but they still continued on fighting, "As if wishing to quell pangs of conscience for having survived, we petition blindly for special attack duty. |
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