Eyes Of The Emperor by Graham Salisbury
Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury is an awesome book about what the U.S Japanese American soldiers had to go through during and after Pear Harbor. After that day of Pearl Harbor everyone treated them differently because of it. This though targets a special group of Japanese soldiers. The ones that were shipped off to Cat Island to help train dogs with their "Japanese Scent," or a more common term for them was bait...
This special K-9 program was filled with donated dogs from homes. Tons of dogs were in this program and trained for different things Attack Dogs, Sentry Dogs, and Suicide Dogs. President Roosevelt believed from Russian Trainers that they could teach the dogs how to track the peculiar Japanese Scent. Of course though after hearing this the Japanese soldiers of Cat Island were furious, but to honorable to do anything about it. Eddy Okobo was one the few who went their including his friends. While there Eddy had to go through horrible things to train those dogs such as beating them, which still brings tears to his eyes now. After gruesome times at Cat Island the government came to see how things were going, and since now Eddy was so great at hiding by then he showed that the Japanese were no different than the Americans, because he was one.
The characters in this book are based on the real people who were there, and Graham Salisbury does a great job of portraying who they were, and what they went through. You can also relate to these characters because you should always fight for what you believe in, and I would think no one wants to beat a dog. If you do, I despise you. In the book the president thought that the Japanese had a peculiar and different scent than anyone else, which I find is racist, and to add on to that he put at least 20 Japanese AMERICAN Soldiers at Cat Island to help train dogs because of this scent.
The plot of this story was very interesting and exciting. This story was adventurous, exciting, it had lots of guns and disgust, and it gives a whole new outlook on what Japanese American Soldiers went through. Also this builds on that everyone should be treated equal by race, and to stay true to what you believe. I absolutely have no doubts about reading this book. It sucks you back to Pearl Harbor, and you just can stop reading it (I finished reading in 4 days *_*). I definitely recommend this book, and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.
Written and Published by: Eric C.
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