OF JAPAN”!!!!!!!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKn71NKR4Ho

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War Brides of Japan, A Docu*memory
by Yayoi L. Naito Winfrey
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TRACK 1: HERSTORY
“Degaseki”
Lily Anne Yumi Welty-Tamai, PhD 05:56;39
Her dissertation on mixed-race Japanese Americans led
Lily to study WWII Japanese war brides. As she
discusses the similarity of their journey overseas to a
new country with that of the degaseki (migrant worker),
she also explains how the brides met their military
husbands during the postwar occupation of Japan. And,
she expounds on “war brides schools” operated by the
American Red Cross in order to westernize the new
wives.
“Japanese

“Japanese Brides, American Wives”
Regina F. Lark, PhD 12:46:40
After reading a book in her sociology class that painted
war brides’ lives as bleak and dismal, Regina set out to
prove otherwise. First, by writing her dissertation on the
subject; then, by accompanying members of the Nikkei
International Marriage Society to Japan. There, she
interviewed the war brides’ mixed-race adult children
and learned how they struggled to assimilate. Regina
also provides explicit details about US immigration laws
at the time American military men wanted to bring their
brides home, while revealing discriminatory practices
like the anti-miscegenation statutes that some states
maintained until Loving v. Virginia in 1967.

War Brides of Japan, A Docu*memory
by Yayoi L. Naito Winfrey
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TRACK 2: “THE BRIDES”
“The Best Ambassador”
Parker Tinsley, Asako Sakaguchi Miller Kimes and Margaret Kei Miller Tinsley 24:48;09
Speaking Japanese with his grandmother in her Laguna
Hills California residence, Parker helps Asako remember
how she met her white American Marine Honor Guard
husband, and how they quickly married and arrived in
the US.
Later, Asako’s daughter, Margaret, talks about their
family’s world travels and her mother’s role in
entertaining diplomats in countries like Libya where they
once lived—as well as the war’s impact on her mother
and the family members she lost.
Brought up in a cultured family of kimono shop owners, Asako recalls having to learn the formal
Japanese tea ceremony and how to play traditional koto. Besides making matcha (tea), Asako
also shows off the dress she had custom made from her wedding obi (sash). Both mother and
daughter also remember Empress Michiko of Japan’s declaration that, “Japanese war brides
are the best ambassadors for Japan”.
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