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Spy in Their Midst: The World War II Struggle of a Japanese-American Hero
Author(s): Richard Sakakida (Author), Wayne S. Kiyosaki (Author)
- Publisher: Madison Books
- Publication Date: 3 July 1995
- Language: English
- Print length: 200 pages
- ISBN-10: 1568330448
- ISBN-13: 9781568330440
Book Description
A Japanese-American spy, captured by the Japanese in WWII, tells of his remarkable capture and survival.
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During World War II, while thousands of Japanese-Americans were being sent to U.S. detainment camps, a Japanese-American from Hawaii working as a U.S. Army spy in the Philippines was captured by the enemy. Richard Sakakida was the only Japanese-American prisoner of the Japanese forces, and he faced death as a “traitor” because of his Japanese face. Despite unspeakable torture, Sakakida stubbornly refused to confess that he was an American spy; ironically, his Japanese cultural heritage is what enabled him to survive the beatings inflicted on him by his Japanese captors. Sakakida narrowly escaped a death sentence and was assigned to the office of a Japanese official, where he gained valuable military information for MacArthur and engineered a daring prison break that freed a Filipino guerrilla leader and hundreds of his followers. Fifty years later, Sakakida finally tells his tale of survival and perseverance against incredible odds.
