My Name Is Yoshiko

Everything changed for Yoshiko Kawaguchi on December 7, 1941, the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, plunging the United States into World War II. Until then, Yoshiko had lived in rural Downey, California, with her parents and three siblings. Her parents had been farm workers there for nearly 20 years. Four months after the bombing, the Kawaguchi family and 120,000 other Japanese Americans, found themselves imprisoned, perceived by the U.S. as threats to national security, solely because of their Japanese ancestry.Now 94 years old, Yoshiko Susan Kawaguchi Matsumoto looks back at the six months that she and her family were forced to live in a horse stall at the Santa Anita Racetrack in Southern California, and the two-and-a-half years they were imprisoned in a second internment camp, in the desert of Rohwer, Arkansas.Eventually Yoshiko and her family were released. From then on, Yoshiko's life began to unfold in a series of events more fortuitous and beautiful than she could have ever imagined.

Author: Yoshiko Susan Kawaguchi Matsumoto, Pamela Varma Brown

Publisher: Write Path, Llc

Publication Date: Dec 11, 2015

Number of Pages: 140 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0985698381

ISBN-13: 9780985698386