Revised Second Edition. Hiroshi Nakamuras Treadmill holds the distinction of being the only novel about Japanese American wartime internment written in one of the camps during World War II. The characters of Nakamuras novel suffer a similar fate he experienced in his own life. Prior to the War, Nakamura worked as the English editor for a large Tokyo newspaper and in Manchuria. After he returned to the U.S., he was incarcerated in the Salinas Assembly Center, California. Treadmill is a unique novel, providing an exceptional look into life in Japanese-American internment camps. Nakamura exquisitely captures the