Edgar A. Porter is Professor Emeritus in the College of Asian Pacific Studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Japan. Previous publications include China in Oceania: Reshaping the Pacific?(co-editor, Berghahn Books, 2010), The People's Doctor: George Hatem and China's Revolution (University of Hawii Press, 1997), re-published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2003 and translated and reprinted under title Chairman Mao's Doctor (Kairyusha Press, Tokyo, 2010).|Ran Ying Porter is a writer and her most recent novel is Black Dragon River (China Youth Press (Beijing, 2014).

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• Introduction, Preface, Map of Oita, Prefecture Chapter 1: Something Big Was Going to Happen Chapter 2: One Million Souls, One Heart Chapter 3: Oita Men Troop to War Chapter 4: The War Expands and the People Mobilize Chapter 5: Invincible Japan Chapter 6: Fire from the Sky Chapter 7: I Shall Die with Pleasure Chapter 8: Never-Ending Sirens Chapter 9: A Hard Price to Pay Chapter 10: Donate Everything Chapter 11: Eliminate the City Chapter 12: Oita's Advisors to the Emperor Chapter 13: The Lightning Bolt Chapter 14: We Didn't Surrender, the War Just Ended Chapter 15: Hungry, Confused, and Afraid Chapter 16: The Devil Comes Ashore Chapter 17: A Bitter Homecoming Chapter 18: The Occupation Takes Hold Chapter 19: Miss Beppu, Crazy Mary, and William Westmorland, Conclusion, Chronology of Japanese Historical Events: 1905-1957, List of Interviewees.