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Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds by Fukuhara, Frank; Fukuhara, Harry K.; Fukuhara, Pierce; Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 relations and the Japanese experience in America. After their father’s death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fukuhara—all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest—moved to Hiroshima, their mother’s ancestral home. Eager to go back to America, Harry returned in the late 1930s. Then came Pearl Harbor. Harry was sent to an internment camp until a call came for Japanese translators and he dutifully volunteered to serve his country. Back in Hiroshima, his brothers Frank and Pierce became soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army. As the war raged on, Harry, one of the finest bilingual interpreters in the United States Army, island-hopped across the Pacific, moving ever closer to the enemy—and to his younger brothers. But before the Fukuharas would have to face each other in battle, the U.S. detonated the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, gravely injuring tens of thousands of civilians, including members of their fam
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fukuhara, Frank; Fukuhara, Harry K.; Fukuhara, Pierce; Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner
- Publisher
- HarperCollins;Harper Perennial
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062351937
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (823 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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