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Balancing Acts: How a Japanese Immigrant Built a Life in the Face of Racial Danger-Until Federal Agents Seized Him
By Dana Frank
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By Dana Frank
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An early 20th-century immigrant’s story of perseverance in the face of racism—and his kidnapping by the US government
Jack Inoway was 16 and alone when he left Japan for the United States. After decades of struggle, he eventually became a prominent restaurateur in Ohio. But in 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US government seized him, interrogated him as an "alien enemy," and destroyed his livelihood and public identity. Weaving never-before-seen personal correspondence w...
Jack Inoway was 16 and alone when he left Japan for the United States. After decades of struggle, he eventually became a prominent restaurateur in Ohio. But in 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US government seized him, interrogated him as an "alien enemy," and destroyed his livelihood and public identity. Weaving never-before-seen personal correspondence w...