戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉)

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

B3. NLF message to PM Satō Eisaku Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles. The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読 宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社". The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist. A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment. The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định. Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]