Cover of Soldiers in Hiding

Soldiers in Hiding

First published 1986

About the book

It’s Tokyo, 1941. Teddy Maki and Jimmy Yakamoto are Japanese-American friends and jazz musicians playing Tokyo’s lively nightclub scene. Stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Teddy and Jimmy are drafted into the Japanese army and sent to fight against American troops in the Philippines. Their perilous attempts to remain neutral in a conflict where their loyalties are deeply divided are shattered when Jimmy is killed by the commanding officer for refusing to shoot an American prisoner. The deed then falls to Teddy. Thirty years later, Teddy is married to Jimmy’s widow, father to his son, a star on Japanese TV — and still wrestling with the guilt over Jimmy’s death.

Prizes

  1. 1987 Winner

About the author

Richard Wiley, born 1944, United States.

Subjects

Catalogue record

Author
Wiley, Richard, 1944–
Statement
Soldiers in Hiding / Richard Wiley.

Book facts

ISBN
978-0-595-32661-7
4 more ISBNs
  • 978-0-451-14954-1
  • 978-0-9766311-3-2
  • 978-0-451-15785-0
  • 978-0-87113-046-4
Records
Open Library Wikidata

Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026