The Island You Can't Return From Alive

The Island You Can't Return From Unless You Die
Sohei Sakai

No one knew.
That the farewell of that day would be eternal.

"We will be annihilated here..."
"Please, I beg you, take care of my sisters."
"You taught me so much about the island. Thank you."
"This evacuation is temporary. We will return when we win."
"Why did Japan start this kind of war?"

July 1944, Iwo Jima.
It was supposed to be a temporary evacuation—

Why can't the islanders, scattered to the winds,
return to their homeland even now?

The author of the bestseller "Landing on Iwo Jima"
unveils the dark side of this country in this masterpiece of non-fiction!

[Table of Contents]
Prologue: The Day the Village Disappeared
Chapter 1: Walking on the Unconstitutional Island
Chapter 2: Tokibo's Dream
Chapter 3: Iwo Jima Boy's Chronicle
Chapter 4: The Secret Meeting Minutes
Chapter 5: The Reborn Iwo Jima
Chapter 6: How the Iwo Jima Islanders Fought
Chapter 7: Did the Homeland Abandon the Islanders?
Chapter 8: Iwo Jima in 2025
Epilogue: The Emperor's Flowers