Foreword
Translator's Preface
Author's Preface
1 Hanging the House Nameplate
2 A Soldier without a Country
3 The Dirge-like Farewell Banner
4 Across the Straits Again
5 The Black Wooden Barracks
6 An Undreamed-of Happenstance
7 To the Latrine and Back
8 All Punished for a Piece of Bread
9 No Time Even to Go to the Latrine
10 Inspection of Underpants
11 The Encouragement of Love
12 The Day My Wife Left Hiroshima
13 Boating and Tunneling Practice
14 Cadet Officer Training
15 The First B-29: The Time at the Engineering Academy
16 Fighting to Lose
17 Return to My Country and a Week in My Home Town
18 A Shame-Faced Visit to the Ancestral Grave
19 Father's Final Instructions
21 "Nan Desuka?"
22 Shinto Shrine Worship
23 Preparing His Grave
24 Things Father Taught
25 Life in the Pyongyang Engineer Corps
26 Sergeant Arai
27 A Farcical Interview
28 Liberation, but Apprehension
29 Forming Ranks to Return Home
30 The World Upside Down
31 The Evil Hand Reaches Out
32 A South-Bound Coast Runner
33 Shoemaker in Freedom
34 The Last Day of Hiroshima
35 The Wave of the Korean War
36 Carried by the Flood
37 An Unexpected Trip to Japan
38 The First KATUSAs
39 Following the Historic Battle
40 The Advance to the Yalu
41 The Return from the Door of National Unification
42 Meeting My Hamheung Family
43 We Were Twins
44 My University Years
45 The Dramatic Way South
46 My Wife's Story
47 Standing Again before the Name-plate
Afterword