<p>This is the personal saga of John David Provoo. In 1940, the young American Buddhist studying at an ancient monastery in Japan was urged by the U.S. Embassy to return home. In 1941, he enlisted in the US Army in San Francisco, and was soon stationed in the Philippines. Within six months of the outbreak of war, he was captured along with thousands of others on the island fortress of Corregidor, in the mouth of Manila Bay. In the early months after capture, the Japanese used him as an interpreter, a role that created suspicion in the minds of some that he had become a collaborator. After years of privations in POW camps in Taiwan, he was moved to Bunkwa Camp in downtown Tokyo, and forced to make propaganda broadcasts with others, including Iva Toguri, from Radio Tokyo, until the end of the war. In the post war years, he was continually harassed by the FBI throughout a second Army enlistment. In 1949, he was discharged, taken immediately into federal custody and charged with treason for events on Corregidor and taking part in radio programs. His trial was foreshadowed by the conviction of Iva Toguri, cast by the government as the non-existent “Tokyo Rose”. This book is his personal narrative of the events that led up to his prosecution and his final return to the training for the Buddhist priesthood.</p>

Nichijo: The Testimony of John Provoo

History

Oliver, John

Shaka, Rev Nichijo

Americas

John Oliver

<p>How to Build a Skateboard Ramp...You might need a crane. This book is an old carpenter's memoir of building skateboard ramps and skateparks with his son in Hawaii and California. My 15 year old son and I attended the Santa Barbara, California premiere of a skateboarding movie, The Search for Animal Chin, May 5, 1987. What happened as a result is the subject of this book. It describes our experiences in the professional skateboarding world of Powell-Peralta and the evolution of our ramp-building, culminating in the construction of Powell’s SkateZone skatepark at the company factory in 1990, and the fabulous SkateStreet skatepark in Ventura, 1997. This book’s not about the stars of the skateboard world; it’s more about the behind-the-scenes players like myself and Johnny and all the characters we worked and played with over the years, building skateboard ramps and skateparks. I’ve got thousands of photographs from those years and I’m in the process of creating a free website as a companion to the book. It will take me months to complete it, but in the meantime, the partially completed site will be up and running, as it is now. www.antigravitydevicecompany.com</p>

Anti Gravity Device Company

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

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