Reminiscences of My 60 Years in the United States

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Privately Published by Author [Published date: 1990]. Hard cover, 223 pp with fold-out map at the back of the United States on one side and Japan on the other side. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Takewo Takekoshi dated 5/24/1991 on front free end paper. Very good in very good dust jacket. Purple cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping, scuffing and fading to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing and fading to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. Includes several black and white photos and illustrations, map. [From foreword] It may be one of the wonders of life. Being born inSeattle at the close of the Meiji era, I spent my early childhood in Japan, surrounded by vast marshlands and in the distance mountains covered with thick impenetrable forests. As if in the distance, the Taisho era seemed to refleet a faint and frail light of democratic ideology which had been slowly nurtured to that time. It was a time when my elder cousin Yasujiro entertained plans of a grand ambition?operating a horse ranch of at least five sections in the United States??and when I moved ahead with high hopes and enthusiasm, pressed by my youthto seek my own destiny. This was late Taisho. When the Showa era began, time seemed to fly past me as I started a long journey to the United States from the icy shores of Kushiro, a desolate land near the west end of Hokkaido. With fervent zeal I vowed that I would not return unless and until I accomplished my original goals. The sixty years of my life in the United States were parts of hidden history, marked by hardships and violent ups and downs. Before the war, I toiled to support myself while studying. During the war, I struggled with depression. After the war, my return to the west coast was illstarred by confrontations with people whose prejudices lingered long after the conflict ceased. N° de ref. del artículo 20160331003

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