Book Talk - "Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II"

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Join the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture for a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Evelyn Iritani as she discusses her new book, Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II. The book is an immensely moving untold story of idealism, deception and behind-the-scenes diplomacy between the US and Japan. RSVP About the book In the fall of 1943, despite fighting some of the Pacific's bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a…

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