Published in English as part of two short anthologies of Japanese war stories: The Shadow of Sunrise: Selected Stories of Japan and the War (Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo (1966), and The Catch and Other War Stories edited and introduced by Shoichi Sacki (Kodansha International, (1981), both of which include three other stories by Tamiki Hara, Fumiko Hayashi and Kenzaburō Ōe.