Haiku Etched in Extreme Circumstances: Learning from Testimonies of Soviet Internees and Manchurian Repatriates is a critical study of haiku and testimony by people who experienced postwar Soviet internment and repatriation from Manchuria. Hiromi Ozeki, whose father experienced Siberian internment, draws on historical sources and memoirs to examine the role haiku and haiku gatherings played under extreme conditions.

A critical study tracing the voices of people in extreme circumstances through haiku and testimony.