TY  - BOOK
AU  - SAKURAI Tadayoshi
TI  - Human bullets: a soldier's story of Port Arthur 
SN  - 080329266X (pbk.):
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Lincoln, Neb. USA
PB  - Univ Nebraska Press
KW  - PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
KW  - RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, 1904-1905
N2  - Cover sub-title: a soldier's story of the Russo-Japanese war. This is a first hand account by a Lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army of the campaign against Port Arthur, Russia's ice-free port in China during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. The impact of this war was considerable being the first Asian victory over a European power since the thirteenth century. The book also introduces the concept of yamato-damashii (traditional Japanese spirit) which was such an important element in maintaining morale, discipline, and cohesion among the Japanese troops
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