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The Battle of Iwo Jima has been memorialized innumerable times as the subject of countless books and motion pictures, most recently Clint Eastwood’s films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, and no wartime photo is more famous than Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning image of Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi. Yet most Americans know only one side of this pivotal and bloody battle. First published in Japan to great acclaim, becoming a bestseller and a prize-winner, So Sad to Fall in Battle shows us the struggle, through the eyes of Japanese commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi, one of the most fascinating and least-known figures of World War II.
As author Kumiko Kakehashi demonstrates, Kuribayashi was far from the stereotypical fanatic Japanese warrior. Unique among his country’s officers, he refused to risk his men’s lives in suicidal banzai attacks, instead creating a defensive, insurgent style of combat that eventually became the Japanese standard. On Iwo Jima, he eschewed the special treatment due to him as an officer, enduring the same difficult conditions as his men, and personally walked every inch of the island to plan the positions of thousands of underground bunkers and tunnels. The very flagpole used in the renowned photograph was a pipe from a complex water collection system the general himself engineered.
Exclusive interviews with survivors reveal that as the tide turned against him, Kuribayashi displayed his true mettle: Though offered a safer post on another island, he chose to stay with his men, fighting alongside them in a final, fearless, and ultimately hopeless three-hour siege.
After thirty-six cataclysmic days on Iwo Jima, Kurbiayashi’s troops were responsible for the deaths of a third of all U.S. Marines killed during the entire four-year Pacific conflict, making him, in the end, America’s most feared—and respected—foe. Ironically, it was Kuribayashi’s own memories of his military training in America in the 1920s, and his admiration for this country’s rich, gregarious, and self-reliant people, that made him fear ever facing them in combat—a feeling that some suspect prompted his superiors to send him to Iwo Jima, where he met his fate.
Along with the words of his son and daughter, which offer unique insight into the private man, Kuribayashi’s own letters cited extensively in this book paint a stirring portrait of the circumstances that shaped him. So Sad to Fall in Battle tells a fascinating, never-before-told story and introduces America, as if for the first time, to one of its most worthy adversaries.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kumiko Kakehashi was born in 1961 in Kumamoto Prefecture. After graduating from Hokkaido University, she worked as a freelance writer producing numerous interviews and articles for newspapers and magazines. She is one of the regular contributors of human interest–based reportage to the “Gendai no Shôzô” (“Present-day Portraits”) section in AERA magazine. She also edits books and was in charge of compiling Yoshimoto Takaaki’s Hikikomore and Chôrenairon (Daiwashobô). This is her first book.

1943 At the barracks of the South China Expeditionary Force in Canton China - фото 4
1943. At the barracks of the South China Expeditionary Force in Canton, China. Kuribayashi sits (front center) holding a German shepherd. Sadaoka Nobuyoshi, an army civilian employee, who tried unsuccessfully to follow Kuribayashi to Iwo Jima, is standing behind him (third from right).
ILLUSTRATED LETTERS THAT KURIBAYASHI SENT TO HIS YOUNG SON TARÔ, WHILE HE WAS AWAY STUDYING IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1928 TO 1930
Dear Tarô Ive just bought this fabulous car if you were here Id drive you - фото 5
‘Dear Tarô, I’ve just bought this fabulous car… if you were here I’d drive you around all you want. How about it? Fancy a ride?” Kuribayashi actually cut the illustration of the car from a catalogue and stuck it on to the letter.
Kuribayashi leaving his lodgings in Buffalo NY for Washington DC A letter - фото 6
Kuribayashi leaving his lodgings in Buffalo, NY, for Washington D.C.
A letter dated November 17 1944 that Kuribayashi wrote to Takako his younger - фото 7
A letter dated November 17, 1944, that Kuribayashi wrote to Takako, his younger daughter, from Iwo Jima. Takako had been evacuated to Shinshû at the time. It talks about how he had had a dream of being together with the family.
Taken in August 1943 this is the only surviving group photograph of the - фото 8
Taken in August 1943, this is the only surviving group photograph of the family, showing, among others, Kuribayashi’s wife, Yoshii (back row, far left); his younger daughter Takako (seated, third from left in back row); and his older daughter Yôko (front row, extreme left).
Like any good father Kuribayashi corrects the Japanese characters that Takato - фото 9
Like any good father, Kuribayashi corrects the Japanese characters that Takato had gotten wrong in one of the letters she sent him.
A letter dated November 28 1944 with diagrams on how to stop the draft in the - фото 10
A letter dated November 28, 1944, with diagrams on how to stop the draft in the kitchen
From a letter dated June 25 1944 the note outside the printed margin line - фото 11
From a letter dated June 25, 1944, the note outside the printed margin line reads: “Do not let anyone else see this letter under any circumstances. Do not talk about its contents.”
A letter dated December 23 1944 from Kuribayashi to Takako talking about the - фото 12
A letter dated December 23, 1944, from Kuribayashi to Takako, talking about the four chicks he was rearing
A strategy meeting on Iwo Jima top and surrounded by the guards on duty - фото 13
A strategy meeting on Iwo Jima (top), and surrounded by the guards on duty (bottom). Commander in Chief Kuribayashi is in the center in both pictures. (Photographs by Shishikura Tsunetaka, Asahi Shimbunsha)
February 23 1945 The Stars and Stripes being raised on Mount Suribachi on Iwo - фото 14 February 23 1945 The Stars and Stripes being raised on Mount Suribachi on Iwo - фото 15
February 23, 1945, The Stars and Stripes being raised on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima (top), and American troops moving forward using a flamethrower to burn out underground bunkers (bottom). (Photographs courtesy of Kingendai Photo Library)
The farewell telegram sent to Imperial General Headquarters on March 16 1945 - фото 16 The farewell telegram sent to Imperial General Headquarters on March 16 1945 - фото 17
The farewell telegram sent to Imperial General Headquarters on March 16, 1945. Kuribayashi’s death poem appears below.
From the front page of the Yomiuri Hôchi newspaper of March 22 1945 All three - фото 18
From the front page of the Yomiuri Hôchi newspaper of March 22, 1945. All three stanzas of Kuribayashi’s death poem have been printed, but the end of the first line has been changed to “mortified, we fall.” (With permission from Yomiuri Shimbunsha)
The telegram of early morning March 17 containing the rousing address to all - фото 19
The telegram of early morning March 17 containing the rousing address to all the officers and men on Iwo Jima. The last line reads: “I will always be at your head.”

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