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Author:

Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner, 1962-

Title:

Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds / Pamela Rotner Sakamoto.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

HarperCollins

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

444 p. ;

Subject:

Fukuhara, Harry K.,--1920-2015.
Fukuhara, Pierce,--1922-2008.
Fukuhara, Frank,--1924-2015.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.
Japanese American families--Seattle.--Seattle.
World War, 1939-1945--Hiroshima-shi.--Hiroshima-shi.
Translators--United States--Biography.
Soldiers--Japan--Biography.
Japan--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Japan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Author's Note -- Prologue: Shockwave -- Part I: American Born, Bicultural Bred -- 1. At Home in Auburn -- 2. Hiroshima Sojourn -- 3. Growing Pains -- 4. The Great Depression -- 5. Ivory Bones and Leaden Ashes -- Part II: Adrift in Two Countries -- 6. Land of the Rising Sun -- 7. A Sorrowful Homecoming -- 8. Hazing in Hiroshima -- 9. Panic in Los Angeles -- 10. Silence From Glendale to Hiroshima -- Part III: The War on the Home fronts -- 11. Incarcerated in California -- 12. The Empire's Home Front -- 13.Arizona Sandstorms -- 14. A Balmy Winter in Minnesota -- 15. Mary's North Star -- 16. Rations and Spies in Hiroshima -- Part IV: The War in the Pacific Theater -- 17. Suspicious from the Start -- 18. To the Front with a Typewriter -- 19. No Season for Cherry Blossoms -- 20. Taking New Guinea -- 21. Pierce's Stay of Execution -- Part V: Doomsday Overture -- 22. A Stunning Encounter in Sarmi -- 23. Glacial Change in the Jungle -- 24. The "Red Paper" Draft -- 25. Extremes in the Philippines -- 26. Brothers at War -- 27. The Atomic Bomb -- Part VI : The Aftermath -- 28. Bittersweet Reunion -- 29. A Troubling Letter -- 30. Peace and Redemption -- Epilogue: At Ease in Honolulu -- Glossary.

Summary:

Relates the true story of three Japanese American brothers who found themselves on opposite sides of the world and the war after two of them returned to their mother's ancestral home of Hiroshima in the late 1930s while the eldest brother served as a Japanese interpreter in the U.S. Army.

ISBN:

0062351931
9780062351937

LCCN:

2015017943

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