The fall of Singapore and the brilliant victories achieved since the start of the war mean we are protected, but I don’t know just how grateful I should be. —Takahashi Aiko, housewife, February 1942Th
Tong, the child of missionaries, recalls the three years he spent, along with his mother and siblings and five hundred other foreigners, in prisoner of war camps in the Philippines during WWII. The me
This collection contains translations of about 300 letters written by Japanese citizens who experienced World War II, half of them former servicemen. The letters, written in 1986 at the request of the
Poke, spam musubi, and loco mocos are currently the rage on the mainland United States, and restaurants serving “local food” have popped up not only in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle but also
