Eyes of the Emperor

i curse my elementary and high school education because it failed to teach me cool shit about world war II. or anything that wasn't related to the damn 13 colonies.i know everything there is to know about the mating rituals of the quakers (zzzzzzzzzzz) but i have no idea who won the civil war. here......more

This book caught me off guard. At first I thought I was going to be reading a normal World War II book, but this wasn't the average World War II book. Instead of a war story of fighting and killing, this book told a story from a more homeland perspective. I actually liked this approach. It got me th......more

This is a hard book to put down. Most people know about the prejudice against Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor, but this goes deeper by explaining the government’s (and the public’s) general philosophies about the issue and how they dealt with it. The writing is really crisp, captivating, and g......more

3.5 ⭐️ sick to my stomach after reading this. i couldn’t put it down — it was action packed from page one!!! book one was about the attack on pearl harbor from a young japanese-american civilian's perspective; and book two (this one) is from a young japanese-american solider's perspective. i really lo......more

Personal Response: I like Eyes of the Emperor because it shows how people can change during only a few events. I do not really understand why Eddy lies about his age. It backfires on him because weeks later Pearl Harbor happened. Then the military felt that any person who is a Japanese descendant......more