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“As a historian and educator, Sakamoto presents a holistic perspective on both a global and human scale, exposing the nuanced, dichotomous layers of issues, including racism, patriotism, allies and enemies—and for this family of three brothers—national identity and personal choices,” writes Lani Lee, book curator at da Shop. “This riveting piece of nonfiction almost reads like a novel and makes history come alive with its lyrical language and deep analysis of the personal impacts of countries at war.”

"The Fukuhara Family Caught Between Two Sides," Discover Nikkei →

"Using Harry Fukuhara’s immediate postwar visit to his family’s home site in Hiroshima permits Sakamoto to offer a rare personal account of not only the context of that city’s controversial atomic bombing by the U.S. military, but also the consequences suffered by its tragically downsized population of survivors. Having only recently listened to the 2014 audiobook of Dr. Michihiko Hachiya’s classic 1955 work, Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6–September 30, 1945, I found myself humbled by being privy to a pair of such complementary, compelling, and compassionate narratives on so pivotal (and horrendous) a moment in modern world history." 
Review by Arthur A. Hansen

Review, "The Fukuhara family caught between two sides," Nichi Bei: A Mixed Plate of Japanese American News & Culture →

"Although the novelistic elements of Sakamoto’s book — graceful prose, solid plot line, dexterous character development, and philosophical heft — enthralled me, what also drew me powerfully into “Midnight in Broad Daylight” was its transpacific subject matter and the resourceful and consequential way in which Sakamoto has exploited it."