Taken from the Paradise Isle
Subtitle: the Hoshida family story
By: by George and Tamae Hoshida ; edited by Heidi Kim ; foreword by Franklin Odo
Contributors: Hoshida, Tamae, 1908-1970; Kim, Heidi
Edition: First paperback edition.
Series: Nikkei in the Americas series; George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas series
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781607325260; 9781607323396; 9781607323440
Subjects: Correspondence; State & Local; World War II; Family; Diaries; Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.); Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850; Personal Memoirs; Japanese Americans; Military; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Families; HISTORY; Biography; West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Description: "Crafted from George Hoshida's diary and memoir, as well as letters faithfully exchanged with his wife Tamae, Taken from the Paradise Isle is an intimate account of the anger, resignation, philosophy, optimism, and love with which the Hoshida family endured their separation and incarceration during World War II. George and Tamae Hoshida and their children were an American family of Japanese ancestry who lived in Hawai'i. In 1942, George was arrested as a 'potentially dangerous alien' and interned in a series of camps over the next two years. Meanwhile, forced to leave her handicapped eldest daughter behind in a nursing home in Hawai'i, Tamae and three daughters, including a newborn, were incarcerated at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas. George and Tamae regularly exchanged letters during this time, and George maintained a diary including personal thoughts, watercolors, and sketches. In Taken from the Paradise Isle these sources are bolstered by extensive archival documents and editor Heidi Kim's historical contextualization, providing a new and important perspective on the tragedy of the incarceration as it affected Japanese American families in Hawai'i. This personal narrative of the Japanese American experience adds to the growing testimony of memoirs and oral histories that illuminate the emotional, psychological, physical, and economic toll suffered by Nikkei as the result of the violation of their civil rights during World War II"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Departure to Hawaii; title: Hawaii Their Destination (Family Journeys to the Big Island); title: Father Becomes a Sugar Cane Planter; title: Boyhood Days in the Country; title: End of Schooling and Start of Work; title: YBA Convention and Trip to Kauai; title: Dawn of Romance and Marriage; title: Tragedy and Awakening to Reality; title: New Life and a New Home; title: World War II; title: Detention as Enemy Alien; title: The Hearing; title: Internment Camps; title: Lordsburg Internment Camp; title: A New Year in the Internment Camp; title: {Tamae's Journey} Document 1 Col. Bendetsen to Lt. Col. George W. Bicknell ; Document 2 Memorandum for Col. Bendetsen; title: {Waiting for Reunion}; title: {Tamae and the Children in Jerome} Document 3 Tamae's Petition for Reunion and Official Response ; Document 4 Letter from Edward Ennis, Department of Justice ; Document 5 "Hawaiian Evacuees," a Report from Paul A. Taylor, Project Director; title: At Santa Fe Detention Station; title: Parole and Reunion with Family at Jerome Relocation Center; title: A New Life in the Relocation Center; title: Document 6 Tamae Hoshida's Leave Clearance Hearing; title: Gila Relocation Center; title: Farewell to the Camps and the Last Lap to Hawaii.