The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (何が私をこうさせたか, Nani ga Watashi o Ko Saseta ka?, What Made Me Do It?
According to Conrad Totman of Yale University, the judge may have read it between edits.
[2] A portion of the work was previously published in Hane's Reflections on the Way to the Gallows.
[4] Steinhoff praised the "straightforward, clear prose" from a young author with a difficult background, and stated that the English translation had successfully mirrored that prose.
[4] Steinhoff added that the book "reads like a polished work of fiction.