Fifty Years of Silence

In 1997, it won the TDK Australian Audio Book Award in the category of Abridged Non-Fiction.^[1]

Richard Tanter, referring to the dismissive responses in 2007 by proponents of "Japanese restorationist nationalism" including Koike Yuriko later Japan's defense minister, and then Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, said that the unwillingness to admit these events made Japan "The sick man of Asia". He describes the book and the events it narrates in some detail, referring to it as "her remarkable book, Fifty Years of Silence".^[2]