The Shotoku Teahouse

About the Book

A true story of two young people of different races and cultures who meet in Japan, fall in love and, despite the hatred of four years of brutal warfare between their nations, marry. The opposition of Keiko’s samurai family, Dick’s Methodist parents, and the Navy bureaucracy is nearly overwhelming.

About the Author

Dick and Keiko (Yano) Mumford were raised 10,000 miles apart—Dick in a small town in Delaware, Keiko in southern Japan where she endured the suffering of wartime Japan. In 1956 they fell in love and married. As an interracial couple they moved to America and Keiko struggled to adjust to a new culture.