Face it, all Issei’s, they had everything to gain and nothing to lose. And they worked so hard! And they knew … 続きを読む 8. Issei worked hard to survive. Hope for Nisei to be the bridge.

she was born in Shingu which is in the Wakayama Prefecture, but it was a larger city. And her mother’s parents… 続きを読む 7. My mother, also from a wealthy family, aspired to become a dentist in the U.S.7.

Yes, well his father came to visit to see how America was ‘cause everybody else was doing that at that time. A… 続きを読む 6. Sons of well-born Japanese (including her grandfather) came to visit America to see how it was.6.

But he was telling me, growing up, he said, there were segregations of people of class, and he said that bothe… 続きを読む 5. Class segregation in my father’s home village in Okayama Prefecture

Getting back to my father, he wanted to stay in the United States. He was very well read individual. And he wa… 続きを読む 4. Why my father wanted to stay in the U.S., doing a houseboy.

And then that time, the Orpheum Theater, which still exists, had live shows, and many of the stars would perfo… 続きを読む 3. Janet Gaynor loved my parents’ music.

And since they both played shakuhachi and koto, they shared that with neighbors and friends, and eventually th… 続きを読む 2. My parents shared music with neighbors while succeeding in the restaurant business in LA.

They were both musicians. My father studied the shakuhachi in Japan as a young man, and my mother studied with… 続きを読む 1. My Japanese parents, both musicians (shakuhachi and koto), experienced racism in the 1920s.