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Within the Barbed Wire Fence A Japanese Man's Account of his Internment in
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Within the Barbed Wire Fence A Japanese Man's Account of his Internment in Canada (Goodread Biographies) Paperback - 1983

by Takeo Ujo Nakano; Leatrice Nakano


From the publisher

Takeo Nakano immigrated to Canada from Japan in 1920, later marrying and starting a family in his adopted homeland. Takeo's passion was poetry, and he cultivated the exquisite form known as tanka. Then came the Second World War. In 1942, Takeo Nakano was one of thousands of Japanese men interned in labour camps in the British Columbia interior. Their only crime was their Japanese origins. Wrenched from his wife and daughter, placed in a labour camp and then an isolated internment camp in northern Ontario, Takeo wrote of his experiences, feelings and reflections with the sensitivity and perception of a poet. Within the Barbed Wire Fence is the touching account of the effects of one of Canada's greatest injustices on a single, sensitive soul.

First line

WHEN THE WORLD is at war, it seems to me, blind forces are at work behind the scenes.

Details

  • Title Within the Barbed Wire Fence A Japanese Man's Account of his Internment in Canada (Goodread Biographies)
  • Author Takeo Ujo Nakano; Leatrice Nakano
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 126 pages
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Goodread Biography, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • Date 1983
  • ISBN 9780887801020