{"id":56374,"date":"2018-05-10T18:45:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56374"},"modified":"2018-05-10T18:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:45:42","slug":"he-searched-for-his-japanese-birth-mother-he-found-her-and-the-restaurant-she-had-named-after-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56374","title":{"rendered":"He searched for his Japanese birth mother. He found her \u2014 and the restaurant she had named after him."},"content":{"rendered":"

He searched for his Japanese birth mother. He found her \u2014 and the restaurant she had named after him.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2018-05-08<\/p>\n

Kathryn Tolbert<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nBruce Hollywood with his mother, Nobue Ouchi. (Courtesy of Bruce Hollywood)<\/em><\/small><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It began with a heart attack in the Pentagon<\/a> parking lot in pre-dawn darkness. Air Force Col. Bruce Hollywood was on his way to work and found himself on the ground, thinking: \u201cThis is where it ends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, as he lay in the ambulance racing to Walter Reed Army Hospital<\/a>, two regrets popped into his head. One was that he wouldn\u2019t be able to help his son with his college applications. The other was that he never thanked the Japanese woman who gave birth to him, then gave him up for adoption in 1960.<\/p>\n

Hollywood was adopted by an American couple who were stationed in Japan<\/a> with the U.S. military and who could offer him a good life in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It took that heart attack in 2005 for Hollywood to set out to find his birth mother, something his adoptive mother, who had passed away, had repeatedly encouraged him to do. Before that, he said, he never felt something was missing. His adoption was not something he had reflected on much.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always knew I was adopted because I had Asian features and [my father] was an Irishman and [my mother] was a Norwegian lady,\u201d said Hollywood, 57. \u201cAnd they always told me, \u2018\u2026We picked you out special. So you\u2019re even more special than everyone else.\u2019\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

\u201cI always knew I was adopted because I had Asian features and [my father] was an Irishman and [my mother] was a Norwegian lady,\u201d said Hollywood, 57. \u201cAnd they always told me, \u2018\u2026We picked you out special. So you\u2019re even more special than everyone else.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,414,8,20],"tags":[687,28620,1793,25022,28621,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-56374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adoption","tag-bruce-hollywood","tag-japan","tag-kathryn-tolbert","tag-nobue-ouchi","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56374","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=56374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56375,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56374\/revisions\/56375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}