My Japan 1930-1951

by Mildred Mastin Pace

Overview

“I was born in Hiroshima, Japan. War was not new to me, even as a child. When I was one year old, Japan
was at war with Manchuria, and when I was seven years old Japan went to war with China. When I was eleven years old, we entered into war with America. I was fifteen when American soldiers dropped the A bomb on my city, Hiroshima, and my life was changed forever.” There have been many books written about Hiroshima and the bomb, but none of them has so explicitly captured a Japanese child’s point of
view. Step by step, Hiroko Nakamoto records the changes that took place in her home life, her school life, and the lives of all Japanese people during the years 1930-1951. It is so difficult for Westerners to understand the total upheaval that came to Japan. The comparisons between Pre-War peacetime Japan, War-Time Japan, and Post-War Japan are vividly detailed. The steps, from Hiroko’s early childhood to her scholarship trip to the U.S.A., are described with simplicity and grace. The final impact of this journal will likely stay with the reader forever.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016711102
Publisher:	Rejuvenate Your Books
Publication date:	06/18/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mildred Mastin Pace was born in St Louis, Missouri, she and her family moved to Kentucky when she was fifteen. Her career as a writer began when she worked her way through Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, writing for newspapers. After college she went to New York and continued writing. Her distinguished writing career flowered in 1941 with her biography of Clara Barton. This book won The Herald Tribune Spring Festival Prize for most outstanding children’s book for the older age. In 1957, the children of Vermont voted her story, Old Bones the Wonder Horse, Kentucky Derby Champion, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher award. In 1970 she wrote My Japan. This is the story of one young girl’s life before, during and after the Hiroshima holocaust. It was while ferreting out material for many of the Mary Margaret McBride radio shows during 1936-1940, that she developed the research skills that made the writing of her books possible. She wrote three other biographies which are: Juliette Low, Early American, the story of Paul Revere and Friend of Animals, the story of Henry Bergh, founder of the A.S.P.C.A. She wrote one novel, Home Is Where the Heart Is. Two of her most popular books are Wrapped for Eternity, the story of the Egyptian Mummy and Pyramids, Tombs for Eternity. She lived with, her husband Clark, in wooded privacy in Garrison, New York. She was very active in the affairs of the local library. After Clark died she moved to Lexington, Kentucky to be close to family. She died on October 24th, 1992.