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Were we the enemy? : American survivors of Hiroshima

Title: Were we the enemy? : American survivors of Hiroshima / Rinjiro Sodei ; edited by John Junkerman.
Author: Sodei, Rinjirō, 1932-
Publication: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	D767.25.H6 S6213 1998	Off-site

Additional Authors

Junkerman, John.

Description

xiv, 193 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

In August 1945, the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is hardly known is that 4,000 Nisei (Japanese Americans), the sons and daughters of Japanese immigrants who had been sent back to Japan to be educated before World War II erupted, were caught in the Hiroshima bombing.
This extraordinary book commemorates the 3,000 Nisei who died from the atomic blast in Hiroshima and documents the plight of another 1,000 hibakusha (survivors of the bomb) who returned to the West Coast after the war.
Branded as "foreigners" in wartime Japan and as "enemies" in postwar United States, their existence as victims of the atomic blast has not been recognized by either the Japanese or the U.S. government, both of which have refused to alleviate the medical and political problems of the survivors. Drawing on primary sources and rich interview data, Rinjiro Sodei has contributed an original scholarly work to the literature on World War II and the Asian-American experience.

Series Statement

Transitions--Asia and Asian America

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Alternative Title

Watakushitachi wa teki datta no ka.

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ISBN

0813329604 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

97045583

OCLC

ocm37864585

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries