Battle of Midway Japanese eye witness accounts

[Mark in Cleveland, Tn.]

I've been on this board and AHF in general searching for Japanese eye witness accounts of the battle of Midway to no avail.Maybe my search is not exact enough, would like anyone to post me links or another www site with post battle accounts actually written by any participant.
I want to read the Nippon side of the actual battle by actual participants

[fontessa]

Hello Mark,

I don't think there is such a website you want.

Below is the next choice.
亀井宏 ミッドウエー戦記 (上)(下)
In this book, the author interviewed a number of Japanese Navy officials and follows the movements of the Japanese Navy based on them.
Kindle version is available.
You can try reading the first part at the following site.
https://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000206457

fontessa

[Mark in Cleveland, Tn.]

I checked this out, is there an English translated version? tab?

[fontessa]

Hello Mark,

Unfortunately not.
Did you first look for a memoir site in English? That would be even more impossible.

fontessa

[ijnfleetadmiral]

There are several IJN officer memoirs published in Japan that are regrettably unavailable in English. I believe VADM Kusaka Ryunosuke's is one of them. It's a shame more of the senior officers didn't write their memoirs; I would've enjoyed reading memoirs from Kondo, Kurita, and Ozawa, and Yamashita and Imamura from the IJA.

[Mark in Cleveland, Tn.]

There are several IJN officer memoirs published in Japan that are regrettably unavailable in English. I believe VADM Kusaka Ryunosuke's is one of them. It's a shame more of the senior officers didn't write their memoirs; I would've enjoyed reading memoirs from Kondo, Kurita, and Ozawa, and Yamashita and Imamura from the IJA.

Yes it is a shame


agreed, a loss of history with no books byu them

[Steve E]

Hashimoto Mochitsura (Sunk) and Orita Zenji(I-Boat Captain) have been published in English and while not specifically on Midway they both participated in this battle and they give a pretty good account about about the IJN submarine service.

[ijnfleetadmiral]

Hashimoto Mochitsura (Sunk) and Orita Zenji(I-Boat Captain) have been published in English and while not specifically on Midway they both participated in this battle and they give a pretty good account about about the IJN submarine service.

Own them both...great reads!

[glenn239]

I've been on this board and AHF in general searching for Japanese eye witness accounts of the battle of Midway to no avail.Maybe my search is not exact enough, would like anyone to post me links or another www site with post battle accounts actually written by any participant.
I want to read the Nippon side of the actual battle by actual participants

Get a copy of this book,

https://www.amazon.ca/Beyond-Pearl-Harb ... 0764329324


It's got dozens of IJN aircrew and aircraft crew accounts of the Battle of Midway.