New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2017. While not denying brutalities committed by the Japanese military, this book overturns standard narratives and demonstrates rather that Japan's racial attitudes during wartime are more accurately discerned in the treatment of Western civilians living in Japan than the experiences of enemy POWs. The book's account of stranded Westerners - from Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kobe to the mountain resorts of Karuizawa and Hakone - yields a unique interpretation of race relations and wartime life in Japan.