I try to read a couple of non-fiction books every year, and one of them is usually a war memoir. I have read form German, US, British, Japanese, and a couple more nations, but I have never found a book written by a Japanese infantry soldier. By high ranking officers, yes. By naval or air-force, yes, but not from the perspective of the common infantry soldier.
I am interested in knowing how the daily life was in the pacific front but from the Japanese perspective. I know the death toll of Japan's infantry in some of the most famous battles is almost unveliebable, and that make it more difficult, but if you could help me finding some book where my googleing failed, I will be grateful.
Thanks to all.
Onward towards our noble deaths by Shigeru Mizuki is a great first hand account from the Japanese side about the New Britain campaign in New Guinea. It's a manga but shows the gritty reality of the situation later on in the war as the tide turned against Japan. Tales by Japanese Soldiers, a book written by Kazuo Ramayana has first hand accounts of the Burma campaign from multiple Japanese perspectives. Those are the few English accounts I know of that tell the story from the Japanese infantry perspective that's available.