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Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps Hardcover - 2015
by Seiichi Higashide; Foreword by C. Harvey Gardiner; Preface by Elsa H. Kudo
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- Title Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps
- Author Seiichi Higashide; Foreword by C. Harvey Gardiner; Preface by Elsa H. Kudo
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Washington Press
- Date 2015-09-14
- ISBN 9780295998633 / 0295998636
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps
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Hardback. New. Adios to Tears is the very personal story of Seiichi Higashide (1909-97), whose life in three countries was shaped by a bizarre and little-known episode in the history of World War II. Born in Hokkaido, Higashide emigrated to Peru in 1931. By the late 1930s he was a shopkeeper and community leader in the provincial town of Ica, but following the outbreak of World War II, he-along with other Latin American Japanese-was seized by police and forcibly deported to the United States. He was interned behind barbed wire at the Immigration and Naturalization Service facility in Crystal City, Texas, for more than two years. After his release, Higashide elected to stay in the U.S. and eventually became a citizen. For years, he was a leader in the effort to obtain redress from the American government for the violation of the human rights of the Peruvian Japanese internees. Higashide's moving memoir was translated from Japanese into English and Spanish through the efforts of his eight…
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Adios to Tears – The Memoirs of a Japanese–Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps
by Higashide, Seiichi/ Gardiner, C. Harvey (Foreward By)/ Kudo, Elsa H. (Foreward By)/ Small, Julie (Contributor)
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Univ of Washington Pr, 2015. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 259 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.
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