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Midnight in broad daylight a Japanese American family caught between two worlds

"'Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II--an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan relati...

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Main Author: Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner, 1962- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Fukuhara, Harry K., > 1920-2015.
Fukuhara, Pierce, > 1922-2008.
Fukuhara, Frank, > 1924-2015.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans.
Japanese American families > Washington > Seattle.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
Translators > United States > Biography.
Soldiers > Japan > Biography.
Japan > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Japan.
Biographies.
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Table of 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.

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