As a young man growing up in Hawaii, Daniel Inouye recognized Japanese planes bombing the American fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He knew his world was changing. As a Red Cross trainee at the time, he ran directly to the harbor and began to assist with the living and the dead. He spent the next seven days helping at a Red Cross medical facility.

Inouye was a second generation Japanese civilian growing up in the Hawaiian territory. Many immigrants from Japan came to the islands to work; developing their own culture in the process. Daniel James Brown tells the story of the first generation (Issie) and the second generation (Nissie) of immigrants who left Japan for other parts of the Pacific including the western United States. His book, “Facing the Mountain,” is a great read about t

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