America And The Four Japans

Author : Daniel James Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525557423
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing the Mountain written by Daniel James Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award “Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner.” – Wall Street Journal From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance, focusing on four Japanese American men and their families, and the contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation. In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of Gordon Hirabayashi, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up against their government in defense of their own rights. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best—striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring.

Author : United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Final Report, Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942 written by United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Miki Ward Crawford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313362025
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese War Brides in America written by Miki Ward Crawford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the end of World War II, 500,000 American troops occupied every prefecture of Japan and interracial marriages occurred. The sudden influx of 50,000 Japanese war brides during 1946-1965 created social tension in the United States, while opening up one of the country's largest cross-cultural integrations. This book reveals the stories of 19 Japanese war brides whose assimilation into American culture forever influenced future generations, depicting love, strength, and perseverance in the face of incredible odds. The Japanese war brides hold a unique place in American history and have been called ambassadors to the United States. For the first time in English these women share their triumphs, sorrows, successes, and identity in a time when their own future was tainted by social segregation. This oral history focuses mainly on women's lives in the period following World War II and the occupation of Japan. It illuminates the cultural expectations, the situations brought about by the war, and effects of the occupation, and also include quotes from various war brides regarding this time. Chapter interviews are set up in chronological fashion and laid out in the following format: introduction of the war bride, how she met her husband, her initial travels to America, and life thereafter. Where needed, explanations, translations, and background history with references are provided.

Author : Frederik L. Schodt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America and the Four Japans written by Frederik L. Schodt and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable overview of the ever-changing relationship between Japan and the United States.

Author : Eric L. Muller
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807831735
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Inquisition written by Eric L. Muller and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Free to Die for Their Country" comes the story of the internment of 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry in 1942, and the administrative tribunals that had been designed to pass judgment on those suspected of being disloyal.

Author : Robert Arden Wilson
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East to America written by Robert Arden Wilson and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1980 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Japanese Americans from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Author : Roger Daniels
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619267
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese American Cases written by Roger Daniels and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented “military necessity,” ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry. As Roger Daniels movingly describes, almost all reluctantly obeyed their government and went peacefully to the desolate camps provided for them. Daniels, however, focuses on four Nisei, second-generation Japanese Americans, who, aided by a handful of lawyers, defied the government and their own community leaders by challenging the constitutionality of the government’s orders. The 1942 convictions of three men—Min Yasui, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Fred Korematsu—who refused to go willingly were upheld by the Supreme Court in 1943 and 1944. But a woman, Mitsuye Endo, who obediently went to camp and then filed for a writ of habeas corpus, won her case. The Supreme Court subsequently ordered her release in 1944, following her two and a half years behind barbed wire. Neither the cases nor the fate of law-abiding Japanese attracted much attention during the turmoil of global warfare; in the postwar decades they were all but forgotten. Daniels traces how, four decades after the war, in an America whose attitudes about race and justice were changing, the surviving Japanese Americans achieved a measure of political and legal justice. Congress created a commission to investigate the legitimacy of the wartime incarceration. It found no military necessity, but rather that the causes were “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.” In 1982 it asked Congress to apologize and award $20,000 to each survivor. A bill providing that compensation was finally passed and signed into law in 1988. There is no way to undo a Supreme Court decision, but teams of volunteer lawyers, overwhelmingly Sansei—third-generation Japanese Americans—used revelations in 1983 about the suppression of evidence by federal attorneys to persuade lower courts to overturn the convictions of Hirabayashi and Korematsu. Daniels traces the continuing changes in attitudes since the 1980s about the wartime cases and offers a sobering account that resonates with present-day issues of national security and individual freedom.

Author : Ezra F. Vogel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674366282
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan As Number One written by Ezra F. Vogel and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Okada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No-no Boy written by John Okada and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Haruko Taya Cook
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781842122389
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan at War written by Haruko Taya Cook and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2000 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately three million Japanese died in a conflict that raged for years over much of the globe, from Hawaii to India, Alaska to Australia, causing death and suffering to untold millions in China, southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, as well as pain and anguish to families of soldiers and civilians around the world. Yet how much do we know of Japan's war?In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese home front during the devastating raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of how this violent conflict affected the lives of ordinary Japanese people.'Oral History of a compellingly high order.' Kirkus Reviews'This book seeks out the true feelings of the wartime generation [and] illuminates the contradictions between official views of the war and living testimony.' Yomiuri Shimbun