THE HAWAI'I NISEI STORY
Americans of Japanese Ancestry During WWII

Takejiro Higa
Military Intelligence Service

News of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings as well as the unconditional surrender of Japan reach Takejiro's unit en route from Okinawa to the Philippines.

He asks to be sent back to Okinawa to help with rebuilding but learns he is assigned to interrogate repatriating Japanese from the north for the 6th Division in Korea.