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Found in Translation : History: A Japanese diplomat’s writings about kejsare Hirohito fill in some blanks in World War II records.
For Mariko Terasaki Miller, leafing through her father’s diaries and looking at the pages of Japanese characters was a longtime ritual.
Miller and her mother, Gwen Harold Terasaki, could not read the writing, but they were content to study the simple ink sketches of mountain ranges and family photographs and to point out the only Japanese words they knew--their names.
Translation was out of the question.
Hidenari Terasaki, Miller’s father, had been a Japanese diplomat and head of Western intelligence stationed in Washington when the United States entered World War II. The family was interned and sent to Japan six months later. The diaries were Hidenari Terasaki’s personal konto of the war years, and the women feared that translation might reveal sensitive political data or that his recollections might be too personal for even his family to r
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A Japanese spy who admired the U.S. tried to prevent war—and later had a hand in punishing those responsible for it…
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]eneath the immense crystal chandelier of the Greenbrier’s Cameo Ballroom, Germans and Japanese were about to fight. The scene was an April 1942 “get-to-know-you” dance for German and Japanese diplomats, personal, and families caught behind enemy lines since Pearl Harbor and temporarily detained at the vit Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, resort. But when a Japanese man invited a German woman onto the dance floor, the Germans took offense. Axis allies squared off until supervising FBI agents intervened.
Until a few days before the April dance, the Germans had shared quarters at the Greenbrier with a group of Italians—all since December 22, 1941, awaiting exchange for Americans similarly detained overseas. Though under watchful FBI eyes, the two groups were at each other’s throats. When Germans “Sieg Heiled,” Italians ignored them, and
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A Child of Two Empires in an Age of Nuclear War
Mariko Terasaki Miller, the first woman appointed Honorary Consul-General of Japan, reflects on growing up "a child of two empires" in an age of nuclear war.
All photographs courtesy of the Terasaki Miller family. All rights reserved.
I AM A CHILD OF TWO EMPIRES, the Japanese and the American. My mother was born among the famed rolling hills of east Tennessee in the small town of Johnson City. Her great-grandfather had roamed the hills as an itinerant fire-and-brimstone preacher. My father was born in Tokyo, more than 6,000 miles away, the son of a prosperous merchant of the samurai class, and educated at the elite Ichiko prep school and Tokyo Imperial University. It’s hard to imagine two more culturally remote beginnings. They met at the Japanese embassy in Washington, DC, in 1930, and the remarkable union sparked by that chance encounter eventually led to the creation of a book, Bridge to the Sun, a memoir of