Title: A spy in their midst
First published: 1995
Description: During World War II, while thousands of Japanese-Americans were being sent to U.S. detainment camps, a Japanese-American from Hawaii working as a U.S. Army spy in the Philippines was captured by the enemy. Richard Sakakida was the only Japanese-American prisoner of the Japanese forces, and he faced death as a "traitor" because of his Japanese face.

Despite unspeakable torture, Sakakida stubbornly refused to confess that he was an American spy; ironically, his Japanese cultural heritage is what enabled him to survive the beatings inflicted on him by his Japanese captors. Sakakida narrowly escaped a death sentence and was assigned to the office of a Japanese official, where he gained valuable military information for MacArthur and engineered a daring prison break that freed a Filipino guerrilla leader and hundreds of his followers.

Fifty years later, Sakakida finally tells his tale of survival and perseverance against incredible odds.
Subjects: Biography, Japan, Japanese American Participation, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, Military intelligence, Participation, Japanese American, Prisoners and prisons, Japanese, Prisoners of war, Secret service, World War, 1939-1945, Japanese americans, World war, 1939-1945, secret service, united states, World war, 1939-1945, military intelligence, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, japanese, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, american, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, american
Places: Philippines, United States
People: Richard Sakakida
LC classification: D810.S8 S345 1995