From Meiji to Myself

This is the true story of a 12 year old boy who was placed into the Gila River Internment Facility, near Casa Grande, Arizona at the beginning of World War II. At this young age he was confronted with the questions of what it means to be japanese, what it means to be an american, and even more, what it means to be a human being. Harry Otsuji is one of the few voices left who actually remembers what it was like to be a japanese-american during World War II. This book is his honest and...
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This is the true story of a 12 year old boy who was placed into the Gila River Internment Facility, near Casa Grande, Arizona at the beginning of World War II. At this young age he was confronted with the questions of what it means to be japanese, what it means to be an american, and even more, what it means to be a human being. Harry Otsuji is one of the few voices left who actually remembers what it was like to be a japanese-american during World War II. This book is his honest and passionate telling of how it happened, what it was like, and how it changed his life forever.