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Found this story while looking for other stuff:
Seventy years ago many Japanese people in occupied Tokyo after World War Two saw US troops as the enemy. But tens of thousands of young Japanese women married GIs nonetheless - and then faced a big struggle to find their place in the US.
We had Koran and Japanese neighbors when my dad was stationed at Biggs. Idon't remember the other Army wives discriminating against the Asian wives. They all went to to same club meetings, came over for coffee or meals when their husbands were off somewhere, usually Los Alamos or flying somewhere for schools, etc. I did note the Korean wife didn't seem to like the Japanese woman and I never saw their kids playing with each other, but they were still at the same group meetings and social gatherings. My Dad went into Japan after serving in the Phillipines, so he was used to them. He really liked Fillipinos a lot more, though, and thought they should have free travel to the States and full immigration rights if they wanted to.
The Japanese women who married the enemy
Seventy years ago many Japanese people saw US troops as the enemy. But tens of thousands of young Japanese women married GIs nonetheless - and then faced a big struggle to fit in in the US.
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Seventy years ago many Japanese people in occupied Tokyo after World War Two saw US troops as the enemy. But tens of thousands of young Japanese women married GIs nonetheless - and then faced a big struggle to find their place in the US.
We had Koran and Japanese neighbors when my dad was stationed at Biggs. Idon't remember the other Army wives discriminating against the Asian wives. They all went to to same club meetings, came over for coffee or meals when their husbands were off somewhere, usually Los Alamos or flying somewhere for schools, etc. I did note the Korean wife didn't seem to like the Japanese woman and I never saw their kids playing with each other, but they were still at the same group meetings and social gatherings. My Dad went into Japan after serving in the Phillipines, so he was used to them. He really liked Fillipinos a lot more, though, and thought they should have free travel to the States and full immigration rights if they wanted to.