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Language: English
Published by North Texas, Denton, 1993
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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very nice copy; with special plate signed by Fujita; author was captured on Java in 1942; he was one of only two Japanese-Americans to have been a POW of the Japanese.
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- Title
- Foo: A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun: The Secret Prison Diary
- Author
- Fujita, Frank Foo
- Publisher
- North Texas, Denton
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0929398467
- ISBN 13
- 9780929398464
- Edition
- First
- Seller catalogs
- Second World War, Second World War::POW
This work chronicles the internment of the only Japanese American combat soldier captured during the Pacific campaign of World War II. Frank ""Foo"" Fujita, a Texan who served with the ""Lost Battalion"" of the 36th Infantry Division, recounts his experience in this diary.
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About the Author
Frank Fujita was called back to active duty as a reservist during the Korean War. He then resumed civilian life and eventually carved out a career as an illustrator for the Air Force. He has appeared on television on C-Span, was filmed at the Admiral Nimitz Museum; and he was one of two prisoners of war interviewed by Ted Koppel on Nightline as part of the debate concerning the dropping of the atomic bomb. He was also interviewed as a former POW on the History Channel.
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