| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 810 .S8 S345 1995 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14143 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 1568330448 (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Kiyosaki, Wayne S.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1931-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - A spy in their midst :
- Remainder of title - the World War II struggle of a Japanese-American hero : the story of Richard Sakakida /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - as told to Wayne S. Kiyosaki
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Lanham, Md. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Madison Books,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1995.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 199 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 24 x 16 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes Index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Bringing up the past -- Growing up in Hawaii -- Recruitment in Secrecy -- Assignment to Manila -- Outbreak of war -- Back in the fold -- Photographs -- Surrender at Corregidor -- First brush with Imprisonment -- Into the Hellhole -- Farewell to Bilibid -- Baguio: Escape and Freedom -- Looking back -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Suggested Readings -- Index -- About the author.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - The story of Richard S. Sakakida, Hawaiian Nisei (American of Japanese descent) who was drafted into the US Army's top secret intelligence service (the Corps of Intelligence Police) and sent to the Philippines to penetrate the Japanese community in Manila. As a spy, he succeeded in obtaining information on Japanese agents and their activities. When the war broke out, he was active in Bataan and Corregidor translating captured Japanese documents and interrogating prisoners of war together with other Nisei. He remained in Corregidor until its fall in May 1942, and became a Japanese prisoner. He convinced the Japanese intelligence officers that he had been forced to serve the Americans, and was eventually made to work as interpreter for Japanese trials of suspected guerrillas. He witnessed the executions of several top guerrillas. Sakakida claimed that he smuggled intelligence information to Fil-American guerrillas, and also that he was instrumental in the August 1944 guerrilla jailbreak in Muntinglupa. He was taken with the withdrawing Japanese forces to Northern Luzon, where he managed to escape and cross to American lines, where he told intelligence agents what he knew. This book was written by Wayne S. Kiyosaki, Sakakida's brother in law, based mainly on what Sakakida told him; it is told with Sakakida in the first person, like a memoir. While short accounts on Sakakida had been published earlier this is the first book length treatment from Sakakida's own words. His versions of some key events, such as the Muntinglupa jailbreak, however, do not jibe with other eyewitness accounts and are difficult to corroborate. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Sakakida, Richard.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Military intelligence
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Participation, Japanese American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Secret service
- Geographic subdivision - United States.
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