Keiko Itoh: 2 books
The Japanese Community in Pre-War Britain
From Integration to Disintegration
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Explores the origins of the community, and compares the experience of the Japanese to that of other national groups. The book discusses the community's involvement in the arts, religion and sport; intermarriage; and the second generation, and concludes by considering the impact of deteriorating relations in the 1930s and of the Second World War.
My Shanghai, 1942-1946
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
It is 1942. Shanghai after Pearl Harbor. Newly-arrived Eiko Kishimoto, a twenty-year-old, London-educated Japanese housewife, settles into a privileged existence in the French Concession as a member of the community of the Occupying Power. Initially, her days are filled with high society lunches and...