Dear Miye: Letters Home from Japan 1939-1946 (Asian America) - Softcover

Tomita, Mary Kimoto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804729670 ISBN 13: 9780804729673

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

These letters tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who was stranded in Japan during World War II. They chronicle her turbulent life from her arrival in Japan through her experiences as a civilian employee of U.S. forces in the first years of the American occupation.

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From the Back Cover

"The letters give a sense of immediacy in her descriptions of conditions in prewar, wartime, and postwar Japan. They also reveal an ordinary, resourceful, sassy, yet vulnerable young woman negotiating her way through tough situations."--Library Journal
"Tomita's commentary on the racial prejudices, economic disparities, moral dilemmas, and day-to-day social and sexual politics that she observed and experienced provides an intimate account of Japanese society, as well as a critique of U.S. society as represented in microcosm by the Allied occupation establishment."--Asian Weekly

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804729670
• ISBN 13: 9780804729673
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Lee Robert G.