Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey From East to West and Back (52 page)

I recognized these women. I knew what it felt like to arrive in Japan with little or no language, to want desperately to fit into a Japanese home, and at the same time to chafe against Japanese attitudes toward women. I had a husband who did not see the world through a Japanese lens, though his parents had never meant to raise an American child. A hundred years before “globalization” and “multiculturalism” became the goals of every corporation and curriculum, three Japanese girls spanned the globe and became fluent in two worlds at once—other to everyone except each other. Their story would not let me go.

Copyright © 2015 by Janice P. Nimura

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