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When author Gail Okawa was in high school, a neighbor mentioned that her maternal grandfather had been imprisoned in a World War II concentration camp on the mainland United States. Questioning her parents, she learned only that “he came back a changed man.” Years later, as an adult salvaging that grandfather’s documents and memorabilia, she found a mysterious photo of a group of Japanese men standing in front of an adobe building with the sign “Liaison Office.” Not until she was the same age that her grandfather was at his arrest did she embark on a project to learn what happened to him. __Remembering Our Grandfathers’ Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawai‘i’s Japanese in World War II__ is a composite chronicling of the Hawai‘i Japanese immigrant experience in mainland exile and internment during WWII—from pre-war climate to arrest to exile to return. Told through the eyes of a granddaughter and researcher born during that war, it is also a research narrative that reveals parallels between pre-WWII conditions and current 21st century anti-immigrant attitudes and heightened racism. It includes an introduction of Okawa’s grandfather, Reverend Tamasaku Watanabe, a Protestant minister, and

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Author

Okawa, Gail Y.

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824883201

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities