Shibaraku Memories of Japan 19261946 Lucille Apcar 9781432779351 Books
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Early in the month of September 1945, a small band of American soldiers on a reconnaissance mission through the central mountain region of Honshu, main island of Japan, arrived in Karuizawa.
How they happened upon this tiny remote village remains a mystery, except as it turned out, Karuizawa offered the only habitable accommodation for miles in any direction. By the cessation of hostilities, due to unrelenting bombing attacks, almost every close by city and town stood in pathetic ruins.
Here they found us, a motley colony of ragged, half-starved westerners from almost every type of background, thrown together, huddled in drafty, uncomfortable shelters away from cities now ravaged by war. Priests, nuns, diplomats, displaced businessmen, stranded sailors, Jewish refugees, White Russians, Europeans and Middle Easterners, including of course, my own family, one of the few Armenians finding themselves caught in Japan at the commencement of hostilities of World War II.
The informal, easy-going, friendly manner of the Americans soon captivated all. Thus the occupation of a defeated nation commenced, and for my family and me, at least, changed our lives forever.
Shibaraku Memories of Japan 19261946 Lucille Apcar 9781432779351 Books
Not long ago I read a book titled "Expatriate Heart" that made a quick mention of a missionary aunt who had remained in Japan during the second world war. Until that time I had never thought about the foreigners who were in Japan during that period and what happened to them. Of course, I knew about the Japanese Americans and Canadians who were sent to the camps, but knew nothing about how the foreigners in Japan were treated. Since reading that phrase I have been searching for information.Yes, the writing is a bit monotonous, but it's not the writing I care about. It's the history that is important to me.
The Apcar family fortunes were dwindling before the war because Lucille's grandfather and father cared more about playing than running the family business. The family still lived very well in the foreign area of Yokohama, but it seemed to me that those days were about to end. It didn't matter because the war erupted and the family was sent to what had been a wonderful summer vacation spot in the Japanese Alps near Nagano, but wasn't so great when freezing and starving. What happened to the family before they were sent and while they were away and when they returned is extremely interesting.
This is a memoir written, I assume, many years later and doesn't have all the detail I would like, but it's a start to learning about a very uncomfortable time. The ending is very abrupt. Lucille left Japan and that is THE END. I chuckled a little because it seemed as though the author was very happy to get to the end.
This book is very interesting and a great start to my quest for more information.
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Shibaraku Memories of Japan 19261946 Lucille Apcar 9781432779351 Books Reviews
SHIBARUKU, Memories of Japan 1926-1946, is well worth the read. The author, of Armenian descent, has a unique perspective of Japan. She was born and raised there due to the fact that her ancestors owned a shipping line, and as a result, her paternal grandfather established an import business in Kobe, then Yokohama. Ms. Apcar gives us a flavor of her childhood as she remembers it. Adept at describing her neighbors of mixed nationalities, the weather, food, and the culture, she takes us right there with her. We see the sights and feel the emotion. This is particularly true when her family is thrust into the horrors of World War II and suddenly their comfortable lifestyle is gone. Here is a story most Americans have never heard, yet should. I highly recommend the book and applaud the author for sharing this important and unusual memoir.
This book is a "must" read. While many of us are aware of the internments during World War II of Japanese-Americans in the United States, most of us are unaware that in Japan, members of the "foreign community" - even if born in Japan - were treated worse. In the United States, the Japanese-Americans belatedly received some compensation, unlike in Japan. This is the story of one family that had been rooted in Japan since before World War I. Yet during World War II, males were imprisoned and the rest of non-Japanese families relocated under difficult conditions. Many starved to death. The author also experienced the devastation caused by the atomic bombs dropped in Japan which ended World War II.
Seeing it from the other end, the author, a granddaughter of a well-known "Armenian consul" during World War I would like to disseminate to those who beat the drums of war to realize that wars bring death, destruction and suffering to a long list of peoples, regardless of culpability.
Haig Der Manuelian
Hope it meets my expectations with some interesting history of Yokohama. Have not had the time to read this yet.
It brought back a lot of good memories of Karuizawa.. Personally, It was one of the most fun years of my early teens..
Lots of friends of all nationalities, lots of snow in the winter (which we barely had any of in Yokohama).
It's been a little while since I finished this book and since then, I've read other books. However, Shibaraku was interesting because the author and I had common grounds. For example, she graduated from the same school as I did, talked in depth of the locations known to me as well, etc. She informed how she survived WWII as a "gaijin" or foreigner in Japan. She went through a big history change that happened in Japan; the beginning of the western culture into Japan.
The author seems earnest and honest, but her writing style is a bit monotonous.
I still enjoyed the book.
Not long ago I read a book titled "Expatriate Heart" that made a quick mention of a missionary aunt who had remained in Japan during the second world war. Until that time I had never thought about the foreigners who were in Japan during that period and what happened to them. Of course, I knew about the Japanese Americans and Canadians who were sent to the camps, but knew nothing about how the foreigners in Japan were treated. Since reading that phrase I have been searching for information.
Yes, the writing is a bit monotonous, but it's not the writing I care about. It's the history that is important to me.
The Apcar family fortunes were dwindling before the war because Lucille's grandfather and father cared more about playing than running the family business. The family still lived very well in the foreign area of Yokohama, but it seemed to me that those days were about to end. It didn't matter because the war erupted and the family was sent to what had been a wonderful summer vacation spot in the Japanese Alps near Nagano, but wasn't so great when freezing and starving. What happened to the family before they were sent and while they were away and when they returned is extremely interesting.
This is a memoir written, I assume, many years later and doesn't have all the detail I would like, but it's a start to learning about a very uncomfortable time. The ending is very abrupt. Lucille left Japan and that is THE END. I chuckled a little because it seemed as though the author was very happy to get to the end.
This book is very interesting and a great start to my quest for more information.
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