[Author] The Himeyuri Peace Museum
[Year of Publication] 2004 (second edition in 2010)
The book contains the Himeyuri students' testimonies (accounts of their experiences in the war) and other materials displayed in the Museum. It is a visually enhanced guidebook making extensive use of photographs and charts. This one book offers a good general summary of the Himeyuri Student Corps.

[Author] Seizen Nakasone
[Year of Publication] 1995
[Publisher] The Kadokawa Library
The book contains the memoirs written by some surviving Himeyuri students and Seizen Nakasone, a teacher accompanying the student corps. This was the first book about the Himeyuri students to be published after the war and has become a source of reference for other works that followed, such as the film Himeyuri Cenotaph. The book is, so to speak, a bible on the history of the Himeyuri students.

[Author] Hideo Nishihira
[Year of Publication] 1995
[Publisher] Yûzankaku
This book was written by the teacher who was in overall charge of the Himeyuri Student Corps. Written from the point of view of the person in charge, the book offers detailed insight into the organization and overall functions of the Army Field Hospital.

[Author] The Himeyuri Peace Museum, Material Collection Committee
[Year of Publication] 2005
This book contains photographs and accounts of each deceased Himeyuri student. There are descriptions about their personality, life during the war, date and place of death, and final moments.

[Author] The Himeyuri Peace Museum
[Year of Publication] 2004
This book aims to provide an overall account of the Himeyuri Student Corps. The reader will be able to acquire an overview of the Himeyuris from the main text and obtain further information from the data section. The data include a list of surviving and deceased students, maps of related battlefield remains, a wartime chronology, and related terminology.

[Author] Ruri Miyara
[Year of Publication] 1986
[Publisher] Nirai Co.
This book is a personal account of the war written by a Himeyuri Student Corps survivor. The author describes her early background, peaceful school life, and postwar events, which all make a highly interesting read. The author was one of the five students who escaped from the Ihara Third Surgical Cave, which came under attack by U.S. forces. The monument to Himeyuri students now stands on this site.

[Author] Sonoko Iha
[Year of Publication] 1992
[Publisher] Iwanami Junior New Paperbacks (Shinsho)
This book was written by one of the survivors from the Himeyuri Student Corps. The author went on from the Okinawa Third Girls' High School to study at the Female Division of Okinawa Normal School and was mobilized to the Army Field Hospital during the Battle of Okinawa. The author gives an account of her experience until the day she was captured by U.S. forces on the Coast of Arasaki. The author was caught in random firing by the Americans and her legs were seriously injured.

[Author] Kikuko Miyagi
[Year of Publication] 1995
[Publisher] Kôbunken
This is a book written by one of the survivors of the Himeyuri Student Corps. At the time of the Battle of Okinawa, the author was a fourth-year student at the Okinawa First Girls' High School. She recounts her days between her mobilization to the Accounting Division of the 32nd Army Accounting Division and her capture by the Americans on the Coast of Arasaki. Seven school friends and one teacher in her group committed suicide with hand grenades on the Arasaki Coast.

[Author] The Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo Head Office), Planning Division
[Year of Publication] 1983
[Publisher] Sôdo Bunka
This book is based on the contents of the exhibition "Maidens of Himeyuri," which was held in major cities in Japan and evoked a large response. It also describes the postwar lives of the survivors from the Corps.

[Author] Kenshin Shinzato
[Year of Publication] 1984
[Publisher] Horupu Publishing
This was the first graphic novel to be made about the Himeyuri Students' war experiences. While it drew on already published books, its plot was adapted by the author.