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• Akimoto, D. (2014), “War and Peace” in Studio Ghibli Films, Lambert Academic Publishing.
• Berger, C. (1970), B29: The Superfortress, Ballantine Books.
• Carter, K. C. & Mueller, R. (1991), Combat Chronology, Center for Air Force History.
• City of Kobe, June 5th Mission Summary.
• Craven, W. F. & Cate, J. L. (1953), The Army Air Forces in World War II. Volume V, University of Chicago Press.
• Cwiertka, K. J. (2013), Food and War in Mid-Twentieth Century East Asia, Ashgate Publishing Company.
• Dower, J. W. (1999), Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, W. W. Norton & Company.
• Dower, J. W. (2007), Lessons from Iwo Jima, American Historical Association.
• Dudok de Wit, A. (2021), Grave of the Fireflies, British Film Institute.
• Dull, P. S. (1978), A Battle of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941–1945), Naval Institute Press.
• Edoin, H. (1987), The Night Tokyo Burned, St. Martin’s Press.
• Evans, D. C. & Peattie, M. R. (2012), Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941, Naval Institute Press.
• Fedham, D. (2016), The Scorched-Earth Generation, Los Angeles Review of Books.
• Frank, R. B. (1999), Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, Penguin Books.
• Gordon, A. (2011), Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan, University of California Press.
• Hastings, M. (2017), Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45, Williams Collins.
• Havens, T. R. H. (1978), Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two, W. W. Norton & Company.
• Hoyt, E. P. (2000), Inferno: The Firebombing of Japan, March 9–August 15, 1945, Madison Books.
• MacArthur, D. (1994), Reports of General MacArthur, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Matsuo.
• Matsuo, F. (2007), Democracy With a Gun: America and the Policy of Force, Stone Bridge Press.
• Morison, S. E. (1960), Victory in the Pacific: 1945, Little, Brown & Company.
• Nosaka, A. (1978), A Grave of Fireflies, Japan Quarterly 25(4).
• Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Frequently Asked Questions.
• Robinson, K. (2017), Behind the Image: the struck Japanese fleet carrier Amagi, Military History Matters.
• Solt, G. (2014), The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze, University of California Press.
• Stahl, D. & Williams, M. (2010), Imag(in)ing the War in Japan: Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film, Brill.
• Takemae, E. (2002), Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy, Continuum.
• Tillman, B. (2010), Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan 1942–1945, Simon & Schuster.
• United States Strategic Bombing Survey (1946), Interrogations of Japanese Officials.
• United States Strategic Bombing Survey (1947), Effects of Air Attack on Osaka–Kobe–Kyoto.
• Valk, J. (2018), Survival or Success? The Kimono Retail Industry in Contemporary Japan (thesis), University of Oxford.
• Werrell, K. P. (1996), Blankets of Fire: U.S. Bombers over Japan during World War II, Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Wright, M. (2010), ‘In Search of “Silver Rice”: Starvation and Deprivation in World War II-era Japan’, Studies on Asia 4(1).