Tokyo Year Zero

by David Peace

  Self Portraits by Dazai Osamu, translated and introduced by Ralph F. McCarthy (Kodansha International, 1991)

  ‘Shitamachi’ by Hayashi Fumiko, translated by Ivan Morris, from Modern Japanese Stories (Charles E. Tuttle, 1962)

  Soldiers Alive by Ishikawa Tatsuzō, translated by Zeljko Cipris (University of Hawaii Press, 2003)

  ‘The Sound of Hammering’ by Dazai Osamu, translated by James O’Brien, from Crackling Mountain and Other Stories (Charles E. Tuttle, 1989)

  A Strange Tale from East of the River by Kafu Nagai, translated by Edward Seidensticker (Stanford University Press, 1965)

  Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari, translated by Hamada Kengi (Columbia University Press, 1972)

  This Outcast Generation by Takeda Taijun, translated by Shibuya Yusaburo and Sanford Goldstein (Charles E. Tuttle, 1967)

  Wheat and Soldiers by Hino Ashihei, translated by Ishimoto Shidzue (Farrar & Rinehart, 1939)

  Where are the Victors? by Donald Richie (Charles E. Tuttle, 1956; republished as This Scorching Earth, 1986)

  A Wife in Musashino by Ōoka Shōhei, translated by Dennis Washburn (University of Michigan, 2004)

  NON-FICTION

  Embracing Defeat by John Dower (W. W. Norton, 1999)

  Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star by William Johnston (Columbia University Press, 2005)

  Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook (The New Press, 1992)

  Japan Diary by Mark Gayn (Charles E. Tuttle, 1981)

  Japan’s Longest Day by the Pacific War Research Society (Kodansha, 1968)

  Keiji Ichidai: Hiratsuka Hachibei no Shōwa Jiken-shi by Sasaki Yoshinobu (Sankei Shimbunsha; Nisshin-Hodo Shuppanbu, 1980)

  Nippon no Seishin Kantei, edited by Fukushima Akira, Nakata Osamu, Ogi Sadataka, Uchimura Yushi and Yoshimasu Shufu (Misuzu Shobo, 1973)

  The Other Nuremberg by Arnold C. Brackman (William Morrow, 1987)

  Oyabun: Nippon Outlaw Retsudan, edited by Jitsuwa Jidai Henshubu (Yosensha, 2005)

  The Phoenix Cup: Some Notes on Japan in 1946 by John Morris (The Crescent Press, 1947)

  The Police in Occupation Japan by Christopher Aldous (Routledge, 1997)

  Senso to Kodomotachi (Nihon Toshokan Centre, 1994)

  Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan by Mark Schreiber (Yenbooks, 1996)

  Shōwa by Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Methuen, 1984)

  Tokyo Rising by Edward Seidensticker (Charles E. Tuttle, 1990)

  Tokyo Underworld by Robert Whiting (Vintage, 1999)

  Typhoon in Tokyo by Harry Emerson Wildes (Macmillan, 1954)

  Valley of Darkness by Thomas R. H. Havens (University Press of America, 1986)

  War, Occupation and Creativity, edited by Marlene J. Mayo and J. Thomas Rimer with H. Eleanor Kerkham (University of Hawaii Press, 2001)

  The Yakuza by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro (University of California Press, 2003)

  FILMS

  Drunken Angel (Kurosawa Akira, Toho, 1948)

  Gate of Flesh (Suzuki Seijun, Nikkatsu, 1964)

  Senso to Heiwa (Yamamoto Satsuo and Kamei Fumio, Toho, 1947)

  Story of a Prostitute (Suzuki Seijun, Nikkatsu, 1965)

  Stray Dog (Kurosawa Akira, Shintoho, 1949)

  Ugetsu (Mizoguchi Kenji, Daiei, 1953)

  Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Fukasaku Kinji, Toho, 1972)

  SONGS

  ‘Ringo no Uta’ (the Apple Song), sung by Namiki Michiko, on Nippon Columbia, was the hit song of 1945-46 in Japan

  ‘Roei no Uta’ (the Bivouac Song), with lyrics by Kozeki Yuji and music by Yabuuchi Kiichiro, on Victor Records, was the winning entry in a 1937 nationwide patriotic songwriting contest

  Plus the collected works of Les Rallizes Denudes, The Stalin, Ningen-isu, Sigh and Church of Misery

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  David Peace is the author of The Red Riding Quartet, GB84., and The Damned Mtd, and has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the German Crime Fiction Award, and the French Grand Prix de Roman Noir for Best Foreign Novel. He was born and raised in Yorkshire, but has lived in Tokyo since 1994.

  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

  © 2007 by David Peace

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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  Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  The prologue in this book originally appeared in Granta 96: War Zones in 2006.

  Photo of Pan Pan Streetwalker, © Horace Bristol.

  Library of Congress Catalogue-in-Publication Data

  Peace, David.

  Tokyo year zero/by David Peace.—1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-26784-9

  1. Tokyo (Japan)—Fiction. 2. Serial murders—Japan—Tokyo—Fiction. 3. Police—Japan—Tokyo—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR6066.E116T67 2007

  823′.914—dc22 2007023813

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