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Seven Downs and Eight Ups : An Autobiography
by
Nobuko Gerth
The book deals with stories of the author’s long life in three cultures — Japan, USA, and Germany. The author is a Japanese woman who grew up in Tokyo, Japan, when Japan was endeavoring to become a world power through military expansions. She tells stories of her life under militarism, which ended in Japan’s defeat in WWII, and the life under the Allied Occupation.
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446 pages
Published
February 12th 2013
by AuthorHouse
(first published February 11th 2013)
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The book deals with stories of the author’s long life in three cultures — Japan, USA, and Germany. The author is a Japanese woman who grew up in Tokyo, Japan, when Japan was endeavoring to become a world power through military expansions. She tells stories of her life under militarism, which ended in Japan’s defeat in WWII, and the life under the Allied Occupation.
She came to the United States in 1953 to study sociology. She relates h ...more
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From the author:
The book deals with stories of the author’s long life in three cultures — Japan, USA, and Germany. The author is a Japanese woman who grew up in Tokyo, Japan, when Japan was endeavoring to become a world power through military expansions. She tells stories of her life under militarism, which ended in Japan’s defeat in WWII, and the life under the Allied Occupation.
She came to the United States in 1953 to study sociology. She relates h ...more
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