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Rei Kimura
The Sinking of the Awa Maru
On the 1st of April 1945 in the dead of night, the „ghost ship“ with its eerie illuminated white crosses shrouded in thick fog was mistaken for a military vessel and torpedoed by an American submarine „Queenfish“. It sank within minutes taking almost all of the 2007 passengers to their watery graves.
This is the gripping story of the Awa Maru, the little known Titanic of Japan, for the first time told in this book. We follow the journey of Kyoko Tanaka, whose parents and brother had been passengers on the Awa Maru as she set sail on her own voyage of discovery. She travels from Japan to Singapore in search of the truth and a „piece of her history“ and makes poignant and touching discoveries of the lives of her parents and some of the other families as they prepared to board the Awa Maru.
The lives of the doomed passengers of the Awa Maru and the events of that horrific night when they perished are all told in this book as never before.
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ISBN: 3-937800-68-9
Softcover, 174 Seiten
Euro 15,90
in englischer Sprache
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Rei Kimura
is a lawyer turned writer with a passion for writing about unique events and personalities.
This interest has led her to write about a very unique and controversial ex president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, (Alberto Fujimori, The President who Dared to Dream) followed by an expose about the Aum Shinrikyo sect responsible for the sarin gas attack in a Tokyo subway in 1995. (Aum Shinrikyo, Japan’s Unholy Sect)
Other works include the very touching story of Okichi Saito, the persecuted concubine of the first American Consul to Japan. (Butterfly In the Wind).
Her latest work „The Sinking of the Awa Maru“ is again the result of her interest in little known tragedies and events that should be highlighted and resurrected from anonymity.
Ms. Kimura’s works have been translated into a growing number of languages including Thai, Hindi, Dutch and German.
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