{"id":49182,"date":"2016-09-23T19:59:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49182"},"modified":"2016-09-25T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T15:02:16","slug":"the-untold-stories-of-japanese-war-brides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49182","title":{"rendered":"The untold stories of Japanese war brides"},"content":{"rendered":"

The untold stories of Japanese war brides<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2016-09-22<\/p>\n

Kathryn Tolbert<\/strong><\/a>, Deputy Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nHiroko and Bill with Kathy, left, Sam and Susan. The video is the trailer to a short documentary film, “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides<\/a>,” which features Hiroko and two other war brides.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

They married the enemy, then created uniquely American lives<\/em><\/p>\n

I thought she was beautiful, although I never understood why she plucked her eyebrows off and penciled them on every morning an inch higher. She had been captain of her high school basketball team in Japan<\/a>, and she ran circles around us kids on a dirt court in our small town in Upstate New York<\/a>. I can still see this Japanese woman dribbling madly about, yelling \u201cKyash! Kyash!\u201d That\u2019s how she said Kath, or Kathy.<\/p>\n

She married my American GI<\/a> father barely knowing him. She moved from Tokyo<\/a> to a small poultry farm just outside Elmira, N.Y.<\/a>, and from there she delivered eggs all over the county and into Pennsylvania<\/a>. My sister describes her as having a \u201ccore of steel.\u201d She raised us as determinedly as any mother could, and yet, looking back, I barely knew her.<\/p>\n

Some people think the film I co-directed, \u201cFall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides<\/a>,\u201d is a paean to loving Japanese mothers. When one interviewer suggested as much to me and fellow director Karen Kasmauski, we exchanged a look that said, \u201cShall we tell him the truth?\u201d The film, titled after a Japanese proverb, is about strong women, for sure. Warm and loving mothers? No.<\/p>\n

So who are these women and what do we, their children, know about them?…<\/p>\n

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

The untold stories of Japanese war brides The Washington Post 2016-09-22 Kathryn Tolbert, Deputy Editor Hiroko and Bill with Kathy, left, Sam and Susan. The video is the trailer to a short documentary film, “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides,” which features Hiroko and two other war brides. They married the […]<\/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":[1793,25023,25022,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-49182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-japan","tag-karen-kasmauski","tag-kathryn-tolbert","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49182","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=49182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49195,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49182\/revisions\/49195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}