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Those Days in Muramatsu: One Woman's Memoir of Occupied Japan
Yumi Goto
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Description for Those Days in Muramatsu: One Woman's Memoir of Occupied Japan
Paperback. After WW II, the author and her family lived in the small community of Muramatsu. The sudden influx of more than 1,800 Americans into a rural Japanese community was potentially traumatic, and their imminent arrival made the townspeople depressed and fearful. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: B; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153. .
In the aftermath of the Pacific War and Japan’s capitulation, Mrs Yumi Goto and her family lived in the small community of Muramatsu, where they had relocated to get away from Tokyo. Yumi Goto was an English speaking graduate of one of Japan’s top universities for women, and when a contingent of American soldiers was sent to Muramatsu as a garrison force, she became an interpreter. The sudden influx of more than 1,800 Americans into a rural Japanese community was potentially traumatic, and their imminent arrival made the townspeople “depressed and fearful”. To everyone's surprise, they found the soldiers to ... Read more
In the aftermath of the Pacific War and Japan’s capitulation, Mrs Yumi Goto and her family lived in the small community of Muramatsu, where they had relocated to get away from Tokyo. Yumi Goto was an English speaking graduate of one of Japan’s top universities for women, and when a contingent of American soldiers was sent to Muramatsu as a garrison force, she became an interpreter. The sudden influx of more than 1,800 Americans into a rural Japanese community was potentially traumatic, and their imminent arrival made the townspeople “depressed and fearful”. To everyone's surprise, they found the soldiers to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971697938
SKU
V9789971697938
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About Yumi Goto
Yumi Goto was born in 1918 and now makes her home in Tokyo. Explaining why she wrote her memoir in English, she said she felt that “the Japanese people, once the Occupation would be over in the future, would not want to recall the memories of the period when the nation was humiliated but that Americans would like to read ... Read more
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