No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai’i during World War II by Franklin Odo + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]
30 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Japanese American, Nonfiction, Repost
A Legacy of Change
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