Old Wizard
2nd Lieutenant
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Good shots guys!
fubar57
General
Nice info Shinpachi
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Thanks guys.
And this is Okinawa 70 years ago and today.
He shouts in his website "Don't call me Hafu (half) or Gaijin (foreigner). I am Japanese !"
He doesn't know his father either.
There are still lot we have to learn.
And this is Okinawa 70 years ago and today.
He shouts in his website "Don't call me Hafu (half) or Gaijin (foreigner). I am Japanese !"
He doesn't know his father either.
There are still lot we have to learn.
Old Wizard
2nd Lieutenant
Good stuff!
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Alice Jay Little (1893-1974)
Wife of Japanese diplomat Saburo Kurusu.
Japanese name 来栖有寿 (Kurusu, Arisu)
Her kids -
Jay Kurusu (1914- )（JP name 寿永子 Sueko）
Ryo Kurusu (1919-1945) Bob（JP name 良 Ryo）
Pia Kurusu (1926- ) (JP name 輝子 Teruko）
Masa Kurusu (adopted daughter)
Masa was Ryo's girl friend and pregnant when Ryo died as an IJA fighter pilot.
She had a daughter Fusako (1945-1997).
Fusako married a Japanese base ball player Sen-ichi Hoshino (1947- ) and left two daughters.
They are fine.
This shows how important family roots are for kids.
Pia
Alice and Ryo
Wife of Japanese diplomat Saburo Kurusu.
Japanese name 来栖有寿 (Kurusu, Arisu)
Her kids -
Jay Kurusu (1914- )（JP name 寿永子 Sueko）
Ryo Kurusu (1919-1945) Bob（JP name 良 Ryo）
Pia Kurusu (1926- ) (JP name 輝子 Teruko）
Masa Kurusu (adopted daughter)
Masa was Ryo's girl friend and pregnant when Ryo died as an IJA fighter pilot.
She had a daughter Fusako (1945-1997).
Fusako married a Japanese base ball player Sen-ichi Hoshino (1947- ) and left two daughters.
They are fine.
This shows how important family roots are for kids.
Pia
Alice and Ryo
michaelmaltby
Colonel
"... Alice Kurusu reportedly stated that she was proud that her son was able to die "for his Emperor and his country." His father Saburo chose an English inscription for his headstone:- "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons". Ryu's two sisters both married Americans and had moved to the USA."
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Old Wizard
2nd Lieutenant
Nice stuff!
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Developed by a Canadian missionary Alexander Croft Shaw (1846-1902) in 1886, Karuizawa is one of the oldest summer resorts located in the mountain area of Nagano prefecture in Japan. Population in the season was around a few hundreds at most but there lived as many as 2,000 western citizens during the ww2 as diplomats, merchants, scholars and refugees who were evacuated from Tokyo and Yokohama which were targets of the Allied bombing. As most of them had gone home or exiled to the U.S. after the war was over, it is not easy to find out pics taken at the time but here are some for references.
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Interesting!
fubar57
General
More new history, thanks Shinpachi
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Robert Porter
Senior Master Sergeant
Very cool, I was aware of the fact that some civilians were hosted by Japan all through the war but that was it, no information about how/where/why etc. So this is all new info to me!
