Title Foo, a Japanese-American prisoner of the Rising Sun : the secret prison diary of Frank "Foo" Fujita / foreword and notes by Stanley L. Faulk [i.e. Falk] ; introduction by Robert Wear

Published Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 371 pages) : illustrations Series War and the Southwest series ; no. 1 War and the Southwest series ; no. 1. Contents Foreword / Stanley L. Falk -- Foo joins the Texas National Guard : 1938-1941 -- The 2d Battalion sails for "The Plum": 1941-1942 -- Java falls to the Japanese: January 1942-March 1942 -- Foo becomes a POW: Jaarmarkt and "Bicycle Camp": March 1942-October 1942 -- Singapore and Fukuoka Camp in Nagasaki, Japan: October 1942-February 1943 -- Labor in the shipyards: February 1943-May 1943 -- Guard discovers Foo's Japanese heritage: June 1943-July 1943 -- Foo beaten, Dutchmen tortured: July 1943-October 1943 -- Camp routines at Omori and Bunker Hill: October 1943-December 1943 -- Bunker Hill Boys broadcast: December 1943-June 1944 -- Bombing raids, Benjo Honcho plans escape: June 1944-January 1945 -- Fire bombings of Tokyo: February 1945-May 1945 -- Night of ethyl/methyl alcohol: May 1945-July 1945 -- Japan surrenders: August 1945 -- Okinawa, Alabang, reunions with old friends, home: September 1945 -- Tacoma to Texas: September 1945-February 1946 Summary During his time as a POW, Frank "Foo" Fujita kept a diary of daily happenings, embellished with drawings of life in the camp. He secreted the diary in the walls of his barracks, as the practice was forbidden. That diary forms the basis of these memoirs. Fujita's memoirs are also unique in that he was one of the fewer than nine hundred Americans taken prisoner on the island of Java. The bulk of American POWs in Japanese hands surrendered in the Philippines, and most of the published POW memoirs reflect their experience. Fujita's account of the defense of Java and of the fate of the "Lost Battalion" of Texas artillerymen serves to distinguish this memoir from others. At one point while a POW in Japan, Fujita was forced to be part of the Japanese radio group broadcasting propaganda. After the war, he testified at some of the war crime trials in San Francisco, and the diary on which this book is based was used as evidence in those trials Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Fujita, Frank, 1921- SUBJECT Fujita, Frank, 1921- fast Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American. Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Military -- World War II. Prisoners of war Japan United States Genre/Form Biographies Personal narratives Form Electronic book ISBN 0585270562 9780585270562

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