| Dear Miye: Letters Home from Japan 1939-1946 Contributor(s): Tomita, Mary Kimoto (Author), Lee, Robert G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0804724199 ISBN-13: 9780804724197 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1995 Annotation: The letters of Mary Kimoto Tomita tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who along with over ten thousand other Japanese Americans was stranded in Japan during World War II. After growing up on a small farm in central California and completing junior college, Mary traveled to Japan in June 1939 to study the Japanese language and culture and to visit relatives. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Mary was on a Japanese ship bound for the United States; the ship turned around and returned to Japan, where Mary remained for the next five years. Mary's letters to her two closest friends, Miye Yamasaki, her childhood friend in California, and Kay Oka, another young Japanese American stranded in Japan, chronicle Mary's turbulent life from her arrival in Japan through her experiences as a civilian employee of U.S. forces in the first years of the American occupation. Mary's wartime letters and journal were destroyed in the Tokyo air raids, but shortly after she returned to the United States in January 1947, Mary wrote a memoir that reconstructed her wartime experiences; selections are included here to cover the war years. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 94024110 |
| Series: Asian America |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.33" W x 9.29" (1.76 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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| Publisher Description: These letters tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who was stranded in Japan during World War II. They chronicle her turbulent life from her arrival in Japan through her experiences as a civilian employee of U.S. forces in the first years of the American occupation. |