Title: Imprisoned Apart
First published: 1997
Description: This is the poignant story of a young teacher and his bride who came to Seattle from Japan in 1919 so that he might study English language and literature, and who stayed to make a home. On December 7, 1941, the FBI knocked at the Matsushitas' door and took Iwao away, first to a jail cell at the Seattle Immigration Station and then by special train, windows sealed and guards at the doors, to Montana.

He was considered an enemy alien, "potentially dangerous to the public safety," because of his Japanese birth and professional associations.

The story of Iwao Matsushita's determination to clear his name and be reunited with his wife, and of Hanaye Matsushita's growing confusion and despair, unfolds in their correspondence, presented here in full. Louis Fiset helps us to read between the lines to understand Hanaye's displacement from everything safe and familiar and Iwao's unfaltering commitment to his adopted country, despite his imprisonment and the ignominy of suspicion of disloyalty.
Subjects: Japanese Americans, Correspondence, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, World War II, Quelle, Internierung, Gevangenschap, Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850, Tweede Wereldoorlog, Military, HISTORY, Japanese americans, evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, japanese, Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
People: Iwao Matsushita (1892-1979), Hanaye Matsushita (1898 or 9-1965)
LC classification: D769.8.A6 F49 1997