Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds

by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

Gofuyo Yempuku, a nisei who had relocated from Oahu to an island near Hiroshima in 1933, would recollect, “We knew it would be a tough, tough struggle for Japan. But we couldn’t talk about this with others because we feared possible police action.”