Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Isaac Shapiro tells Leonard about growing up in WWII-era Japan.(August 3, 2018)


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Isaac "Ike" Shapiro was in his early teenage years when he experienced the American fireboming of Japan firsthand in the early 1940s, as he describes in his autobiography “Edokko: Growing Up a Foreigner in Wartime Japan.” With World War II suddenly at their doorstep, Isaac’s family was forced to move from city to city in the war-torn nation. After US troops began their Japanese occupation, he was hired at the age of 14 to be an interpreter for a U.S. Marine Colonel from Arkansas, a job that led him on a circuitous path to America. Don’t miss Leonard’s conversation with a man who had a front row seat for one of the worst chapters of human history.
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Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New YorkBy Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

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