num_pages: 272
description: The changing relationship between Japan and the United States is told in four stories from the life of an American town--Port Angeles, Washington, from 1834, when the first Japanese washed up on the Washington coast, to 1988, when one of Japan's largest paper companies invested $75 million in an aging American paper mill. Aughor Iritani is an award-winning journalist.
language: English
title: An Ocean Between Us
titlecomplete: An Ocean Between Us
ratings_count: 14
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: William Morrow and Company