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How does a man offering in the Imperial Japanese Military feel when he all of a sudden sees his sibling in the standard of the foe United States? So how exactly does a Japanese mother, ornamented by barbed line in an American internment camp for foe aliens, feel when her only child writes: "I am now an American soldier. I have to fight and, if required, perish for my country"? So how exactly does a Hawaiian-born junior feel as he lies near fatality in Hiroshima, a victim of history's first nuclear assault, launched by america? Or maybe a 12-year-old girl on the glucose plantation, whose ailing daddy returned to the area of his beginning just a month before, on the morning hours she hears that "yellow Japs" have attacked? They are among the occasions of excruciating confrontation experienced by Japanese American individuals, divided geographically and politically between Japan and Hawaii when the Pacific Battle exploded at Pearl Harbor. Our House Divided focuses on seven personal reviews of such individuals as they struggled with the emotions and events brought on by the conflict - reviews of the issue of first-generation Japanese People in the usa who were firmly attached both to the country of their beginning, also to the land where they had spent almost all of their lives and brought up children in communities they had helped to create; and reviews of the issue of second-generation Japanese People in the usa, whose loyalty to america was questioned even though these were American citizens. That these citizens transformed that distrust into countrywide esteem through their celebrated accomplishments is also area of the poignant story. Our House Divided, an inward journey for the writer, will start the sight and hearts of many listeners who have roots in more than one country and culture.
