Author: TERASAKI, GWEN
Title: Bridge to the Sun
Description: Newport, TN: Wakestone Books, 1986. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0961385928. Illustrated by Mariko Terasaki. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners, and three smallish edge tears and wear to the top spine end. " Gwen Harold Terasaki (1908-1990) , was the American wife of a Japanese diplomat, Terasaki (Terry) Hidenari (1900-1951). Theirs was an unusual but not unique international marriage in the 1930s; generally, but not always, the wife in those days was Japanese and the husband European or American. A native of Johnson City, Tennessee, Gwen Harold met Terry, then private secretary to the Japanese Ambassador, at an Embassy reception while visiting her aunt in Washington, D. C, 1930. The two were married in the fall of 1931. His career in the foreign service in the 1930s took them to Shanghai, where their daughter Mariko was born in 1932, then to Havana and Peking. At the time of Pearl Harbor, December 1941, Terry had risen to first secretary at the Washington Embassy. His brother Tar? Was head of the American Bureau in the Japanese Foreign Ministry. As documents at the National Archives and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library indicate, Terry, probably unknown to his wife, was also head of Japan’s intelligence service for Latin America. The FBI had been tapping his phone and those of other Embassy officials for several months, in addition to investigating their bank accounts. When the Embassy staff and other Japanese nationals were repatriated to Japan in the fall 1942, Gwen Terasaki chose to spend the wartime years in Japan with her husband and their ten-year old daughter, Mariko, nicknamed Mako." (from Univ. Of Maryland). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0961385928 Biography Gwen Terasaki World War II Romance Japanese Internment
See more books from our catalog: Biography
Title: Bridge to the Sun
Description: Newport, TN: Wakestone Books, 1986. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0961385928. Illustrated by Mariko Terasaki. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners, and three smallish edge tears and wear to the top spine end. " Gwen Harold Terasaki (1908-1990) , was the American wife of a Japanese diplomat, Terasaki (Terry) Hidenari (1900-1951). Theirs was an unusual but not unique international marriage in the 1930s; generally, but not always, the wife in those days was Japanese and the husband European or American. A native of Johnson City, Tennessee, Gwen Harold met Terry, then private secretary to the Japanese Ambassador, at an Embassy reception while visiting her aunt in Washington, D. C, 1930. The two were married in the fall of 1931. His career in the foreign service in the 1930s took them to Shanghai, where their daughter Mariko was born in 1932, then to Havana and Peking. At the time of Pearl Harbor, December 1941, Terry had risen to first secretary at the Washington Embassy. His brother Tar? Was head of the American Bureau in the Japanese Foreign Ministry. As documents at the National Archives and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library indicate, Terry, probably unknown to his wife, was also head of Japan’s intelligence service for Latin America. The FBI had been tapping his phone and those of other Embassy officials for several months, in addition to investigating their bank accounts. When the Embassy staff and other Japanese nationals were repatriated to Japan in the fall 1942, Gwen Terasaki chose to spend the wartime years in Japan with her husband and their ten-year old daughter, Mariko, nicknamed Mako." (from Univ. Of Maryland). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0961385928 Biography Gwen Terasaki World War II Romance Japanese Internment
Price: US$ 35.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 49487
- Book number: 49487
See more books from our catalog: Biography