Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

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Pamela Rotner Sakamoto is an American historian and writer on Japanese and Japanese American history, best known for her 2016 book Midnight in Broad Daylight.

Biography[edit]

Sakamoto grew up in Swampscott, Massachusetts.[1] She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College and holds a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.[1][2] Sakamoto lived in Kyoto and Tokyo for seventeen years and is fluent in Japanese.[3][4] She works as an expert consultant on Japan-related projects for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.[4][5] In 2007, she moved to Honolulu, Hawaii,[5] where she teaches history at Punahou School.[5][6][7]

Sakamoto is the author of Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees (1998).[3] This work was among the first English-language works that investigated Japanese diplomat Chiune Sughiara and the role of Japanese diplomacy in saving thousands of Jewish lives on the eve of the Holocaust.[8]

Her book Midnight in Broad Daylight (2016), a true-life story about the Japanese-American Fukuhara family divided by World War II, and the Japanese-American war hero Harry K. Fukuhara, was listed by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best nonfiction books of 2016.[9] This book also touches on the internment of Japanese Americans, life in wartime Japan, the Japanese-American Military Intelligence Service, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.[10]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees (Praeger, 1998)[11][12][13]
  • Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds (HarperCollins, 2016) ISBN 978-0-06-235193-7[1][6][4][14][15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Tuttle, Kate (24 July 2016). "The story behind the book: Tale of Japanese family split by internment and war". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. N16. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  2. ^ "About". Pamela Rotner Sakamoto. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  3. ^ a b BookBrowse. "Pamela Rotner Sakamoto author biography". BookBrowse.com. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  4. ^ a b c Hansen, Arthur A.; Oct 2016, Nichi Bei Weekly / 13. "The Fukuhara Family Caught Between Two Sides". Discover Nikkei. Retrieved 2019-12-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ a b c Kalb, Deborah (2016-05-24). "Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb: Q&A with Pamela Rotner Sakamoto". Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  6. ^ a b Matsueda, Pat (10 January 2016). "A family divided by World War II". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Honolulu, Hawaii. p. F6. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Pamela Rotner Sakamoto". Hawaiʻi Book & Music Festival. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  8. ^ Fogel, Joshua A. (July 1999). "Review of Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner, Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees: A World War II Dilemma". H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  9. ^ "MIDNIGHT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto |". Kirkus Reviews. January 5, 2016.
  10. ^ Kamiya, Gary (2016-01-15). "'Midnight in Broad Daylight,' by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  11. ^ Heppner, Ernest G. (Summer 2000). "Reviewed Work: Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees: A World War II Dilemma by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 18 (4 (Special Issue: Jewish Music)). Purdue University Press: 166–168. doi:10.1353/sho.2000.0071. JSTOR 42943131. S2CID 170526737.
  12. ^ Goodman, David G. (August 1999). "Reviewed Work: Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto". The Journal of Asian Studies. 58 (3). Association for Asian Studies: 856–858. doi:10.2307/2659169. JSTOR 2659169. S2CID 161111666.
  13. ^ Howes, John F. (August 2002). "Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees: A World War II Dilemma (book)". Canadian Journal of History. 37 (2): 430–432. doi:10.3138/cjh.37.2.430. ISSN 0008-4107.
  14. ^ Frase, Brigitte (6 January 2016). "Japanese-American family torn apart during WWII". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minnesota. p. E8. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  15. ^ Damsker, Matt (20 March 2016). "'Midnight' shines light on Japanese-American story". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. p. U3. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
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