The late Karl G. Yoneda (1906-1999), former Japanese-American labor
activist & WWII veteran, published this diary in Japanese in 1988
through the PMC Publishing Co. in Tokyo, Japan. It chronicles the period
from Dec. 7th 1941 to Dec. 17th 1942, during which he and his family
were forcibly interned in the "Relocation Center" for Japanese-Americans
at Manzanar, California. This paperback is an English rendition thereof,
originally translated from the Japanese by Ian R. Forsyth between
1992-1995. In 1997 a very few (5) hard copies were produced & hand-bound
by the translator, but the project was shelved in the absence of a
willing publisher. In May 2021 an ebook (ePub) version was published
with the permission of, and in collaboration with Karl Yoneda's three
granddaughters. This paperback edition is derived from the ebook file,
with a small number of modifications and several additional photographs
from the U.S. National Archives.