Summary: <p>Today, Isaac Shapiro joins Leonard in conversation about living in Japan during World War II<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Edokko-Growing-Foreigner-Wartime-Japan/dp/1936236141"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5044" src="https://i2.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-02-at-6.16.27-PM.png?resize=212%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="212" height="300"></a></p> <div> <p>Isaac 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.<a href="http://www.robinhoodradio.com/donate.html"><img class="wp-image-4060 alignright" src="https://i1.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/make-a-donation.jpg?resize=163%2C24&ssl=1" alt="" width="163" height="24"></a></p> </div>
