“They were unwanted by Americans, resented in Japan — and written off by almost everyone.”
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In the ashes of World War II, thousands of Japanese women married American soldiers and crossed the Pacific to begin new lives in the land of their former enemy.
Decades later, a journalist’s search for her mother’s hidden past reveals a little-known migration… an event that quietly reshaped American families and challenged the boundaries of race, culture, and belonging.
The Story:
