{"id":37637,"date":"2014-10-08T00:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T00:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37637"},"modified":"2016-04-01T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:59:00","slug":"daughters-tell-stories-of-war-brides-despised-back-home-and-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37637","title":{"rendered":"Daughters tell stories of \u2018war brides\u2019 despised back home and in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Daughters tell stories of \u2018war brides\u2019 despised back home and in the U.S.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Japan Times<\/a>
\n2014-10-05<\/p>\n

Lucy Alexander<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hiroko Furukawa was working as a sales assistant at the PX U.S. military supply store<\/a> in Ginza<\/a> in 1950 when she met a GI<\/a> named Samuel Tolbert. Shortly afterwards, Hiroko and Samuel found themselves married and on a train to meet his parents in upstate New York<\/a>. Hiroko, who came from an upper-class Tokyo<\/a> family, changed into her best kimono<\/a> for the occasion, to the horror of her husband, whose family were rural chicken farmers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they arrived at the farm, Samuel\u2019s family stared at Hiroko as if she came from Mars,\u201d explains journalist Lucy Craft. \u201cThey made it clear to her that she\u2019d better get into Western clothes. So she did, and she began her life as the wife of a chicken farmer.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Craft, herself the daughter of a Japanese \u201cwar bride<\/a>,\u201d this is one of countless examples of the struggles endured by a despised and largely hidden immigrant group. Craft believes that about 50,000 Japanese women moved to America with their GI husbands after World War II<\/a> \u2014 at that time, the largest-ever migration of Asian women to America.<\/p>\n

The 1945 War Brides Act<\/a> allowed American servicemen who had married abroad to bring their wives to the United States, on top of existing immigration quotas. The trickle of new arrivals became a flood with the passing of the landmark Immigration Act of 1952<\/a> that lifted race-based barriers on entering the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cHostility to Japan as a nation meant that Japanese women were the last foreign wives to be allowed to move to the U.S.,\u201d says Craft. \u201cThis was a time when interracial marriage was prohibited in many states.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daughters tell stories of \u2018war brides\u2019 despised back home and in the U.S. The Japan Times 2014-10-05 Lucy Alexander Hiroko Furukawa was working as a sales assistant at the PX U.S. military supply store in Ginza in 1950 when she met a GI named Samuel Tolbert. Shortly afterwards, Hiroko and Samuel found themselves married and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,459,8,20,25],"tags":[18096,1793,15328,18095,18098,18097,15327,18099,969],"class_list":["post-37637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-hiroko-furukawa","tag-japan","tag-japan-times","tag-lucy-alexander","tag-lucy-craft","tag-samuel-tolbert","tag-the-japan-times","tag-war-brides-act","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46347,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37637\/revisions\/46347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}