Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part One. The American Experience

1. Establishing Roots

2. Listening to the Sound of Shoes

3. Incarceration

4. Stone Fever

5. Fields under Snow

Part Two. Wartime Correspondence

6. Censored

7. The Letters

Notes

Appendix

Bibliography

Photo Credits

Index

Reviews

"[Iwao and Hanaye Matsushita’s] letters are intensely human, intensely informative, deeply moving. Their publication is a major addition to the literature on this terrible U.S. mistake. . . . Imprisoned Apart does something more than recount history—it makes the reader feel it."
*Statesman Journal*

"Imprisoned Apart by Louis Fiset is a true example of the perseverance by the Issei to make the best of the situation and to continue their lives as usual in the shadow of the barbed wire fences. This book contains the letters that [Iwao and Hanaye Matsushita] wrote to each other during their separation, the only accurate account of their years during the war."
*North American Post*

"This is a well-organized, sensitive book. . . . One begins to sense the cost borne by many Japanese Americans during that war. It is books such as this which search out and light the more obscure corners of an event which blighted the lives of thousands of free Americans."
*Pacific Reader*

"Meticulously researched . . . against the backdrop of our grossly misguided WWII internment policies, the voices of this poetic and enlightened couple shine through."
*The Bellingham Herald*