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New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan "one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter." Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, seven-year-old Tomiko Higa struggles to survive on the... read more

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I was born in Shuri, the ancient capital of Okinawa, which is now part of the city of Naha.

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