During World War II, Japanese-Americans found life tough in America – particularly in Hawaii. That was the case for Yoshiharu Ogata and Naoko Tsukiyama, the grandparents of Melody M. Miyamoto Walters. This hour, we’ll talk with the Collin College history professor about what she learned about their experiences from reading their correspondence, which she writes about in “In Love and War: The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple” (University of Oklahoma Press).
