Kakehashi Kumiko: Biographer of Iwo Jima Commander Kuribayashi Tadamichi

Three of Kakehashi Kumiko’s three best-known biographies: Chiru zo kanashiki: Iō-tō sōshikikan Kuribayashi Tadamichi (So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s Letters from Iwo Jima), Kuruu hito—“Shi no toge” no tsuma Shimao Miho (Losing It: Miho Shimao, the Wife in “The Sting of Death”), and Hara Tamiki—Shi to ai to kodoku no shōzō (Hara Tamaki: Portrait of Death, Love, and Isolation).

Kakehashi’s biography of General Kuribayashi Tadamichi has been translated into eight languages.

The Japan-US Joint Ceremony commemorating the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, held on the island of Iwo Jima (officially known in Japanese as Iō-tō) on March 24, 2018.（Jiji)