Victoria Eaves-Young is a University Associate at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. Victoria was educated at The Australian National University in Canberra, and received her PhD in Japanese Literature from the University of Tasmania. Victoria has spent a number of years teaching in Japan. She has been the recipient of two Japan Study Grants at the National Library of Australia and has undertaken extensive research of captured Japanese Army documents at the Australian War Memorial. Her research focus has been the study of Japanese soldier diaries in the Pacific War.

"This publication represents an important contribution to discussions of the Second World War and Japanese military culture during the early mid 20th century. It will be of primary interest not only to scholars of (military) history, but also those working in fields such as archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and political history."- Ben Raffield, International Journal of Military History and Historiography 40 (2020)

• Prologue, Background, The Role of ATIS in Intelligence Gathering Methodology, Author's Note, Acknowledgements, 1. Setting the Scene, 2. An Extraordinary Diary of an Ordinary Soldier, 3. Priming the Country for War: Imperial Rescripts as Fortifiers of the Kokutai, 4. Out of Landscape, 5. The Landscape of Deprivation, 6. Creating an Idealized World, 7. Re-creating an Emotionally Accommodating Landscape, 8. Death as Man's True Calling, 9. Challenges to a Resolve to Die, 10. Reconciling Death, Epilogue, List of Images, Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations for sources held at the Australian War Memorial (Canberra, ACT), Bibliography, Index