BookSurge Publishing, (2009). SIGNED - Autobiography of an American-born daughter of Japanese immigrants who is caught in Japan in the 1940s and returns to America after the war. "She spends her early childhood exposed to two cultures in a pre-war Japanese settlement in West Seattle. When U.S. anti-Japanese sentiments escalate, she is called Jap and told Go back home. Her parents take her to their homeland. Here, she experiences discrimination from the Japanese, who call her Yankee girl because she is different and because of anti-U.S. sentiment. During the war, she and her family endure terrifying air raids, severe food shortages and many other hardships. They are only 40 miles from Hiroshima when the Americans drop the atomic bomb and they feel its massive jolt." INSCRIBED on the title page. Back in the United States, determined to get a college educaion, she became of the first Asian American students at Brandeis University where she worked under the famous psychologist, Abraham Maslow. 216 pp. ISBN: 978-1439236376.