Garasu no Usagi (ガラスのうさぎ, The Glass Rabbit) is a Japanese autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, who lost her sister and mother in the Great Tokyo Air Raid and saw her father killed by P-51 Mustang before her eyes at Ninomiya Station when she was 13 years old.
[1] As of 2018, the original novel has sold more than 2.4 million copies in Japan.
[2] It was translated into German, Spanish, Hungarian and other languages.
The live action film, titled Tokyo Air Raid Glass Rabbit (東京大空襲 ガラスのうさぎ), is directed by Yūten Tachibana and was released on July 14, 1979.
[4] The television drama series has 15 episodes and was broadcast on NHK from August 18 to September 5, 1980.