The works that made the unflinching war writer Haruo Umezaki

What are the thoughts of Petty Officer Murakami, posted to the naval communications base at Sakurajima ahead of the imminent US landing, as he faces death? Haruo Umezaki's Sakurajima, the work that brought him widespread acclaim, is featured here alongside The Crazy Kite, the story of a war survivor retracing the footsteps of his deceased younger twin, who had committed what was tantamount to suicide during the war.

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