Requiem for Battleship Yamato

Requiem for Battleship Yamato (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.

Requiem for Battleship Yamato

Author	Mitsuru Yoshida
Original title	戦艦大和ノ最期
Translator	Richard H. Minear (1985)
Language	Japanese
Published	1949
Publication place	Japan

Publishing history

The book 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 Battleship Yamato [ja] and 1990 TV series Battleship Yamato [ja].

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

Further reading

• David Stahl (2021). "Mythic reality, battlefield survival and psychosocial conversion in Yoshida Mitsuru's The End of Battleship Yamato". In Hayter, Irena; Sipos, George T.; Williams, Mark (eds.). Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan. 2021: Routledge. pp. 223–240. doi:10.4324/9780429280559-15. ISBN 9780429280559.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
• Shunichi Takekawa (1 May 2012). "Fusing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan: The Battleship Yamato and Popular Culture". Japanesestudies.org.uk. Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
• Gerow, Aaron (31 January 2016). "9. War and Nationalism in Recent Japanese Cinema: Yamato, Kamikaze, Trauma, and Forgetting the Postwar". In Berry, Michael; Sawada, Chiho (eds.). Divided Lenses. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 196–219. doi:10.1515/9780824858179-011. ISBN 978-0-8248-5817-9.