Silent Honor reveals the stark truth about the betrayal of Americans by their own government.and the triumph of a woman caught between cultures and determined to survive. Families are divided, people are forced to abandon their homes, their businesses, their freedom, and their lives.ĭanielle Steel portrays not only the human cost of that terrible time in history, but also the remarkable courage of a people whose honor and dignity transcended the chaos that surrounded them.

Takeo and his family are given 10 days to sell their home, give up their jobs, and report to a relocation center, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese Americans, to face there destinies there. On February 19, Executive Order 9066 is signed by President Roosevelt, giving the military the power to remove the Japanese from their communities at will.

Within hours, war is declared and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one of the most shameful. On December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. And much to Hiroko's surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle's assistant at Stanford, become an unexpected link between her old world and her new. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one. Her cousins had become more American than Japanese. To Hiroko, California was a different world.

It was August 1941.įrom the ship, she went to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. HIs eighteen-year-old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions and her father's wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas and that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions.

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