An Internment Odyssey - Furuya, Suikei
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From the icy plains of Montana to the blistering deserts of New Mexico, the World War II Japanese American incarceration would take Honolulu businessman and poet Suikei Furuya on an odyssey zigzagging through seven states and across eleven thousand miles. Furuya's chronicle of his imprisonment, published in Japanese fifty years ago, is now translated and available in English for the first time.

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From the icy plains of Montana to the blistering deserts of New Mexico, the World War II Japanese American incarceration would take Honolulu businessman and poet Suikei Furuya on an odyssey zigzagging through seven states and across eleven thousand miles. Furuya's chronicle of his imprisonment, published in Japanese fifty years ago, is now translated and available in English for the first time.
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Born in Japan in 1889, Furuya moved to Hawai'i at age eighteen. He worked for plantations and stores for five years, and between 1919 and 1963, he managed furniture stores and held high positions in various organizations such as the Honolulu Japanese Merchants Association, the Hawai'i United Japanese Society, and the Kalihi Education Foundation. On December 7, 1941, he was arrested by the FBI and spent four years interned in various Mainland camps. In November 1945 he returned to Hawai'i and served as president of Hawaiian State Enterprises, Inc., and executive vice president of Pacific Suppliers, Inc. In 1977 Furuya passed away in Honolulu at the age of eighty-eight.