Uncommon Internment Memoir

[An Internment Odyssey] Haisho tenten

Furuya, Suikei (pen name of Kumaji Furuya)

Publication: Honolulu: Hawai Taimususha, 1964. First Edition.

Notes: The first edition of a Japanese American memoir, only recently published in English translation as An Internment Odyssey.

Furuya, a native of Japan, emigrated to Hawaii in 1907 where he opened a successful furniture store. He also organized the Japanese language programming on a Hawaiian radio station and perhaps for that reason he was perceived as a security risk and arrested after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was sent to the mainland where he was imprisoned on Angel Island, in California, and then in five different internment camps in as many states: Camp McCoy (Wisconsin), Camp Livingston (Louisiana), Camp Forrest (Tennessee), and the Santa Fe Internment Camp (New Mexico).

The University of Hawaii Press published an English translation in 2017. This first edition in Japanese is uncommon.

460 pages plus [24] pages of black-and-white plates.

OCLC: 32147927, 676500032

Edition + Condition: First edition. A very good or better copy in a like dust jacket. Top edge dusty. With the original unprinted plastic jacket over the paper one.

Item No: #361093

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