TY - BOOK ID - 77878217 TI - Foo, a Japanese-American prisoner of the Rising Sun PY - 1993 VL - no. 1 SN - 0585270562 9780585270562 0929398467 9780929398464 1574411314 9781574411317 PB - Denton, Tex. University of North Texas Press DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Prisoners of war KW - History & Archaeology KW - History - General KW - Exchange of prisoners of war KW - POWs (Prisoners of war) KW - War prisoners KW - Prisoners KW - European War, 1939-1945 KW - Second World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War 2, 1939-1945 KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - World War Two, 1939-1945 KW - WW II (World War, 1939-1945) KW - WWII (World War, 1939-1945) KW - History, Modern KW - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. KW - Personal narratives, American. KW - Participation, Japanese American. KW - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese KW - Personal narratives, American KW - Participation, Japanese-American KW - Biography KW - Fujita, Frank, KW - Fujita, Foo, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77878217 AB - During his time as a POW, Frank "Foo" Fujita kept a diary of daily happenings, embellished with drawings of life in the camp. He secreted the diary in the walls of his barracks, as the practice was forbidden. That diary forms the basis of these memoirs. Fujita's memoirs are also unique in that he was one of the fewer than nine hundred Americans taken prisoner on the island of Java. The bulk of American POWs in Japanese hands surrendered in the Philippines, and most of the published POW memoirs reflect their experience. Fujita's account of the defense of Java and of the fate of the "Lost Battalion" of Texas artillerymen serves to distinguish this memoir from others. At one point while a POW in Japan, Fujita was forced to be part of the Japanese radio group broadcasting propaganda. After the war, he testified at some of the war crime trials in San Francisco, and the diary on which this book is based was used as evidence in those trials. ER -