Dear Miye: letters home from Japan, 1939-1946
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995. Hardcover. xii, 400 pages, very good hardcover in dust jacket.
"The letters of Mary Kimoto Tomita tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who along with over ten thousand other Japanese Americans was stranded in Japan during World War II. After growing up on a small farm in central California and completing junior college, Mary traveled to Japan in June 1939 to study the Japanese language and culture and to visit relatives. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Mary was on a Japanese ship bound for the United States; the ship turned around and returned to Japan, where Mary remained for the next five years..." - publisher's blurb.
Cat.No: 229841
ISBN: 9780804724197
Price: $12.00