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Desert Exile

The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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Desert Exile

The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

By: Yoshiko Uchida

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength displayed by those who were interned. Replaces ISBN 9780295961903

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University of Washington Press

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0295806532

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9780295806532

Journey to Topaz

A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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Journey to Topaz

A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation

By: Yoshiko Uchida

Like any 11-year-old, Yuki Sakane is looking forward to Christmas when her peaceful world is suddenly shattered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Uprooted from her home and shipped with thousands of West Coast Japanese Americans to a desert concentration camp called Topaz, Yuki and her family face new hardships daily.

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164

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Creative Arts Book Company

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ISBN 10

0916870855

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9780916870850

Picture Bride

A Novel

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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Picture Bride

A Novel

By: Yoshiko Uchida

Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper; Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farmers; Dr. Kaneda, a respected community leader who is destroyed by the adopted land he loves. All are caught up in the cruel turmoil of World War II, when West Coast Japanese Americans are uprooted from their homes and imprisoned in desert detention camps.

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University of Washington Press

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0295976160

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9780295976167

Desert Exile

The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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Desert Exile

The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

By: Yoshiko Uchida

Autobiographical account of the internment of the Japanese American author's family in 1942.

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UBS Publishers' Distributors

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0295961902

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A Jar of Dreams

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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A Jar of Dreams

By: Yoshiko Uchida

A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.

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150

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Simon and Schuster

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0689716729

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9780689716720

Picture Bride

A Novel

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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Picture Bride

A Novel

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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Desert Exile

The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

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0295806532

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The Best Bad Thing

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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The Best Bad Thing

By: Yoshiko Uchida

At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko discovers there are pleasant surprises for her, but then bad things start to happen. Sequel to A Jar of Dreams..

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138

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Simon and Schuster

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0689502907

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9780689502903

Journey Home

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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Journey Home

By: Yoshiko Uchida

This book fills a great need in describing the cruel treatment inflicted upon Japanese-Americans during World War II by their fellow Americans".--School Library Journal. Uchida is the author of the critically acclaimed Japanese-American tales The Best Bad Thing and The Happiest Ending. 10 illustrations.

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Simon and Schuster

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0689716419

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9780689716416

Sacred Space in the Modern City

The Fractured Pasts of Meiji Shrine, 1912-1958

By: Yoshiko Imaizumi

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Sacred Space in the Modern City

The Fractured Pasts of Meiji Shrine, 1912-1958

By: Yoshiko Imaizumi

Sacred Space in the Modern City offers strikingly new and original perspectives on a number of controversial issues and important questions concerning Japanese pre- and post-war ideology and identity. Meiji shrine is not just ‘a’ shrine; it is ‘the’ shrine of twentieth-century Japan. This book is also noteworthy on account of its use of previously untouched archival materials as well as for its broad range of theoretical approaches applied within a multidisciplinary context. The author uses Meiji shrine as a lens with which to investigate the nature of the society that created, experienced and reproduced this site. This long-overdue study will be widely welcomed by researchers interested in Shinto and Meiji Japan, as well as the wider readership wishing to access the social history of Taisho and early Showa Japan.

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345

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BRILL

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9004254188

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9789004254183

Fragrant Orchid

The Story of My Early Life

By: Yoshiko Yamaguchi,Sakuya Fujiwara

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Fragrant Orchid

The Story of My Early Life

By: Yoshiko Yamaguchi,Sakuya Fujiwara

The acclaimed actress and legendary singer, Yamaguchi Yoshiko (aka Li Xianglan, 1920-2014), emerged from Japan-occupied Manchuria to become a transnational star during the Second Sino-Japanese war. Born to Japanese parents, raised in Manchuria, and educated in Beijing, the young Yamaguchi learned to speak impeccable Mandarin Chinese and received professional training in operatic singing. When recruited by the Manchurian Film Association in 1939 to act in "national policy" films in the service of Japanese imperialism in China, she allowed herself to be presented as a Chinese, effectively masking her Japanese identity in both her professional and private lives. Yamaguchi soon became an unprecedented transnational phenomenon in Manchuria, Shanghai, and Japan itself as the glamorous female lead in such well-known films as Song of the White Orchid (1939), China Nights (1940), Pledge in the Desert (1940), and Glory to Eternity (1943). Her signature songs, including "When Will You Return?" and "The Evening Primrose," swept East Asia in the waning years of the war and remained popular well into the postwar decades. Ironically, although her celebrated international stardom was without parallel in wartime East Asia, she remained a puppet within a puppet state, choreographed at every turn by Japanese film studios in accordance with the expediencies of Japan's continental policy. In a dramatic turn of events after Japan's defeat, she was placed under house arrest in Shanghai by the Chinese Nationalist forces and barely escaped execution as a traitor to China. Her complex and intriguing life story as a convenient pawn, willing instrument, and tormented victim of Japan's imperialist ideology is told in her bestselling autobiography, translated here in full for the first time in English. An addendum reveals her postwar career in Hollywood and Broadway in the 1950s, her friendship with Charlie Chaplin, her first marriage to Isamu Noguchi, and her postwar life as singer, actress, political figure, television celebrity, and private citizen. A substantial introduction by Chia-ning Chang contextualizes Yamaguchi's life and career within the historical and cultural zeitgeist of wartime Manchuria, Japan, and China and the postwar controversies surrounding her life in East Asia.

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418

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824854047

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9780824854041

Tōjisha Manga

Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health

By: Yoshiko Okuyama

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Tōjisha Manga

Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health

By: Yoshiko Okuyama

This book defines tōjisha manga as Japan’s autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of a mental or neurological condition in a unique medium of text and image. Yoshiko Okuyama argues that tōjisha manga illuminate otherwise “faceless” individuals and humanize their invisible tribulations because the first-person narrative makes their lived experience more authentic and relatable to the reader. Part I introduces the evolution of the term tōjisha, the tōjisha movements, and other relevant social phenomena and concepts. Part II analyzes five representative titles to demonstrate the humanizing power of tōjisha manga, drawing on interviews with the authors of these manga and examining how psychological or brain-related symptoms are artistically depicted in approximately 40 drawings. This book is highly recommended to not only scholars of disability studies and comic studies but also global fans of manga who are interested in the graphic memoirs of serious social issues.

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302

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Springer Nature

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3031008405

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9783031008405

War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan

The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo's Court Challenges

By: Yoshiko Nozaki

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War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan

The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo's Court Challenges

By: Yoshiko Nozaki

The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945), and which have been challenged by critics who favour more critical, peace and justice perspectives, goes to the heart of Japan’s sense of itself as a nation. The degree to which Japan is willing to confront its past is not just about history, but also about how Japan defines itself at present, and going forward. This book examines the history textbook controversy in Japan. It sets the controversy in the context of debates about memory, and education, and in relation to evolving politics both within Japan, and in Japan’s relations with its neighbours and former colonies and countries it invaded. It discusses in particular the struggles of Ienaga Saburo, who has made crucial contributions, including through three epic lawsuits, in challenging the official government position. Winner of the American Educational Research Association 2009 Outstanding Book Award in the Curriculum Studies category.

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219

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Routledge

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1134195907

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9781134195909

The Happiest Ending

By: Yoshiko Uchida

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The Happiest Ending

By: Yoshiko Uchida

When twelve-year-old Rinko learns that a neighbor's daughter is coming from Japan to marry a stranger twice her age, she sets out to change this arrangement and gains new insights into love and adult problems.

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124

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0021795185

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9780021795185

A Jar of Dreams

By: Harcourt School Publishers Staff,Yoshiko Uchida

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A Jar of Dreams

By: Harcourt School Publishers Staff,Yoshiko Uchida

A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.

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0153003596

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9780153003592

Book's by Yoshiko Uchida

Desert Exile

Desert Exile

Journey to Topaz

Journey to Topaz

Picture Bride

Picture Bride

Desert Exile

Desert Exile

A Jar of Dreams

A Jar of Dreams

Picture Bride

Picture Bride

Desert Exile

Desert Exile

The Best Bad Thing

The Best Bad Thing

Journey Home

Journey Home

Sacred Space in the Modern City

Sacred Space in the Modern City

Fragrant Orchid

Fragrant Orchid

Tōjisha Manga

Tōjisha Manga

War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan

War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan

The Happiest Ending

The Happiest Ending

A Jar of Dreams

A Jar of Dreams

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