Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945

This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States. The second purpose is to present, through Ichihashi's wartime writings, the only comprehensive first-person account of internment life by one of the 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who, in 1942, were sent by the U.S. government to "relocation centers," the euphemism for prison camps.

Arriving in the United States from Japan in 1894, when he was sixteen, Ichihashi attended public school in San Francisco, graduated from Stanford University, and received a doctorate from Harvard University. He began teaching at Stanford in 1913, specializing in Japanese history and government, international relations, and the Japanese American experience. He remained at Stanford until he and his wife, Kei, were forced to leave their campus home for a series of internment camps, where they remained until the closing days of the war.

Author: Gordon H. Chang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 01/01/1997
Pages: 584
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.28lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.42w x 1.47d
ISBN: 9780804727334

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/21/1996 pg. 65
Library Journal 12/01/1996 pg. 118

About the Author
Gordon H. Chang is Associate Professor of American History at Stanford University.