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- **Event Name**: Evelyn Iritani presents 'Safe Passage'
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: An untold story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American–Japanese contacts in World War II.About this EventThird Place Books welcomes author and Pulitzer-winning reporter Evelyn Iritani to our Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about her new book, Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II.This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&amp;A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!Having trouble registering? See Eventbrite's troubleshooting FAQ here.Tickets:This event is free to attend. Registration is required in advance.About Safe Passage. . .In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater’s bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coup— the exchange of civilians caught on the wrong side of the battlefield after Pearl Harbor. Nearly fifteen hundred Allied civilians trapped in Asia, mostly Americans, sailed through dangerous waters to an Indian port city where they were traded for an equivalent number of Japanese immigrants and their families sent from the Americas. The fate of the more than ten thousand Americans left behind rested on the success of this endeavor.In Safe Passage, the award-winning journalist Evelyn Iritani reveals the herculean efforts of the American diplomat James Keeley to engineer these wartime exchanges despite great resistance from within and outside his government; the shipboard conflicts among passengers, including missionaries, revelers, and sharp-tongued journalists; and the moral compromises involved in securing their safe passage. Faced with too few bodies to trade and desperate to free Americans from perilous conditions, the United States uprooted and repatriated Japanese citizens of Latin America, sometimes against their will, while Japanese imprisoned in camps, many of them American citizens, were forced to choose between expulsion to a war zone or an uncertain future behind barbed wire. The result is a revelatory account of the hurdles to pursuing humanitarian action in wartime.Evelyn Iritani is the author of An Ocean Between Us: The Changing Relationship of Japan and the United States, Told in Four Stories from the Life of an American Town. She is a former reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Los Angeles Times, where her reporting garnered numerous awards, including the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series she coauthored on Walmart.About Third Place BooksFounded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events
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- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Theatre
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Lake Forest Park
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Third Place Books
- **lat**: 47.754395
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- **full address**: Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way Northeast, Lake Forest Park, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way Northeast, Lake Forest Park, United States
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- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, Theatre
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