Japanese Monograph Series
These mimeographed documents were published by the U.S. Army of occupation, which hired demobilized Japanese officers to write campaign histories and the like. They were published in Tokyo in the late 1940s and early 1950s. They vary greatly in quality and amount of detail, but all are worth reading. The Library of Congress has a full set on microfilm.Anonymous. "Southern Area Air Operations" (No. 31)
Hisazuma Tadeo. "Air Operations in the China Incident" (No. 166)
Ishikawa Shin et al. "Southwest Area Air Operations Record" (No. 55)
Nonaka (no given name). "Southwest Area Air Operations Record" (No. 56)
Shiba Takejiro. "Air Operations in the China Area" (No. 76)
Sugita (no given name) et al. "Malay Operations Record" (No. 54)
Tanaka Masa. "Burma Air Operations Record" (No. 64)
Terakura Shore et al. "Burma Operations Record" (No. 57)
Tomioka, Sadatoshi. "Political Strategy Prior to Outbreak of War" (Nos. 144, 146, 147, 150, 152; available at the Pearl Harbor Papers project)
Yamaguchi Shiro. "Malaya Invasion Naval Operations" (No. 107)
Japanese language sources
I translated Japanese-language material with Miyuki Rogers and Difei Zhang.Baba, Kazuo, et al. Nihon gunyoki no zembo (Japanese Warplanes in the Pacific). Tokyo: Kantosha, 1956. Three-views; one-page descriptions.
Hasegawa, Naoyoshi. Rikuwashi nanpo sakusen (Land Eagles in the South). Tokyo: Nihon Gunyo Tosho Kabushi Kigaisha, 1943.
Hayashi, Iwao. In Shichi jusan butai kaisoki (73rd Division Remembered). Tokyo: Reimeisha, 1980.
Hinoki, Yohei. Tsubasa no kessen (Desperate Winged Combat).
Tokyo: Kojunsha, 1984. Sgt. Hinoki fought the AVG in the 64th Sentai
(he was wounded by R. T. Smith).
---. Hayabusa sentotai cho Kato (Commander Kato's Falcon Corps).
Tokyo: Kojunsha, 1987.
Hiroshi Umemoto. Burma Kokusen Jyo, vol 1, Tokyo: Dai Nippon Kaiga, 2003. Available at Amazon.co.jp. Incorporated into the Rising Sun Over Burma files on the Annals of the Flying Tigers website.
Horiba, Kazuo. Shina jihen senso shido shi (Strategy in the China Incident). Tokyo: Jiji Tsushinsha, 1962.
Ikari, Yoshio. Shinshitei (New Reconnaissance). Tokyo: Sankei Shuppan, 1981.
Izawa, Yasuho. Nihon rikugun jubakutai (JAAF Bomber Units).
Tokyo: Gendaishi Shuppankai, 1982.
---. & Ikuhiko Hata. Nihon rikugun sentokitai (JAAF Fighter
Units). Tokyo: Kantosha, 1977. Some of this material appears to have
been used in Henry Sakaida, Fighter Aces of the JAAF, Osprey, 1996.
Japan Defense Agency. Nanpo shinko rikugun koku sakusen (Army Air
Operations in Southeast Asia). Tokyo: Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1970. The JDA
campaign histories are the best thing available on the Pacific War from the
Japanese point of view, though uneven in quality. This one is excellent.
---. Chugoku homen rikugun koku sakusen (Army Air
Operations in China). Tokyo: Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1974. And
this one is so-so.
Kasuya, Toshio. Yamamoto jubakugetai no eiko (Glorious Yamamoto Bomber Corps). Tokyo: Futami Shobo, 1970.
Kori, Katsu, et al. Nihon no koku gojunen (Fifty Years of Japanese Aviation). Tokyo: Kantosha, 1960. There is an English-language supplement, translating the text and captions; very helpful.
Kubo, Yoshiaki. Kyunana jubakutai kusanki (The 97 Heavy-Bomber Story). Tokyo: Kojinsha, 1984.
Kuroe, Yasuhiko. Aa Hayabusa sentotai (Ah, the Falcon Corps). Tokyo: Kojinsha, 1969. Lt. Kuroe served first with a Ki-44 Shoki unit in Burma, then transferred to the 64th Sentai.
Ogawa, Toshihiko. Nihon hikoki daizukan (Encyclopedia of Japanese Aircraft). Tokyo: Kodansha, 1980.
Sekigawa, Eiichiro. Pictorial History of Japanese Military Aviation. London: Allan, 1974.
Tagata, Takeo. Hien tai Guramen (Swallow vs. Grumman). Tokyo: Konnichi no Wadaisha, 1973.
Toho Motion Picture Co. Aa Hayabusa sentotai cho Kato (Ah,
Commander Kato's Falcon Corps). Film, n.d. A grand, hammy
fiction version of the 64th Sentai campaign up to Kato's death in 1942.
---. Biruma (Burma). Film, n.d. Good newsreel.
---. Aa Hayabusa. Film, n.d. Good documentary about
the Ki-43. Sgt. Hinoki appears.
Watanabe, Yoji. Toryu. Tokyo: Sankei Shuppan, 1983. See the link for notes from this book.
Yasuda, Yoshito. "Muteki Hayabusa sentai" (Almighty Falcon Group). In Eiko Hayabusa sentai. Tokyo: Konnichi no Wadaisha, 1978. Sgt. Yasuda was another pilot in the 64th Sentai who fought the AVG (he was claimed as a kill by Duke Hedman and Chuck Older but lived to tell his side of the story).
