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From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace

From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace

Loftus, David
Loftus, Mitzi Asai

Paperback

Biographies GeneralRegional: Pacific Northwest

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1962645053
ISBN13: 9781962645058
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Published: Mar 5 2024
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Mitsuko Mitzi Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 sent 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry--about two-thirds of them US citizens--from their homes on the West Coast to inland prison camps. They included Mitzi and most of her family, who owned a fruit orchard in Hood River, Oregon. The Asais spent much of World War II in the camps while two of the older sons served in the Pacific in the US Army. Three years later, when the camps began to close, the family returned to Hood River to find an altered community. Shop owners refused to serve neighbors they had known for decades; racism and hostility were open and largely unchecked. Humiliation and shame drove teenaged Mitzi to reject her Japanese heritage, including her birth name. More than a decade later, her life took another turn when a Fulbright grant sent her to teach in Japan, where she reconnected with her roots.

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