Notes
1 See also Philip Gabriel, Mad Wives and Island Dreams.
2 Originally written in Japanese. Interview and text by Keiko Sainowaki. Accessed online from: https://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00157/kakehashi-kumiko-biographer-of-iwo-jima-commander-kuribayashi-tadamichi.html Accessed 11 October 2019.
3 Jiro Shirasu was a famous post-war Japanese businessman and bureaucrat in the government, who had been educated in the UK.
4 The work uniform widely worn in wartime Japan is known as monpe.
5 The interview was conducted in 2010.