TAKENAKA
All families are as branches of a tree. We grow in different directions, but our roots remain the same.
All families are as branches of a tree. We grow in different directions, but our roots remain the same.
Juichi and Hae Fujimori's youngest daughter Jean Takako Fujimori married Don Hiroshi Yamaoka.
Juichi and Hae Fujimori's youngest daughter Jean Takako Fujimori married Don Hiroshi Yamaoka.
Don's sister Yuriko was forced into a marriage to the Takenaka family. Yuriko described her ordeal as the yomesan to a Yokogawa Train Station book store family. She worked so hard that she was starved, developed life-long digestion conditions. It was so bad that mother Fukuyo Yamaoka did something unthinkable. Obaachan went to the store and got her daughter back.
Don's sister Yuriko was forced into a marriage to the Takenaka family. Yuriko described her ordeal as the yomesan to a Yokogawa Train Station book store family. She worked so hard that she was starved, developed life-long digestion conditions. It was so bad that mother Fukuyo Yamaoka did something unthinkable. Obaachan went to the store and got her daughter back.
Because Yuriko moved back home to Gion Machi, a suburb of Hiroshima, her husband Masajiro Takenaka moved to live together with them all. Uncle Masajiro was very kind, practiced daily tea ceremony and sumie calligraphy.
Because Yuriko moved back home to Gion Machi, a suburb of Hiroshima, her husband Masajiro Takenaka moved to live together with them all. Uncle Masajiro was very kind, practiced daily tea ceremony and sumie calligraphy.
During WWII, Uncle Masajiro, who had ALWAYS received sports exemptions as a non-athletic boy, became a bookkeeper for a bank. At the end of the war, he was forced to go to a camp hidden in the bamboo groves of Hiroshima prefecture to learn how to fire a gun with wooden bullets in preparation to meet the long anticipated American invasion.
During WWII, Uncle Masajiro, who had ALWAYS received sports exemptions as a non-athletic boy, became a bookkeeper for a bank. At the end of the war, he was forced to go to a camp hidden in the bamboo groves of Hiroshima prefecture to learn how to fire a gun with wooden bullets in preparation to meet the long anticipated American invasion.
Obaachan herself had made 100s of haramaki for Japanese solders. Towards the end of the war, she, too, attended military practice to meet the American forces with the naginata. The atomic bomb saved thousands of Japanese civilians' lives. Why was Nagasaki bomb necessary? The Japanese hid the science behind the Hiroshima bomb from its population. Yurichan, who was a koto teacher, brought her classes of students to the Hiroshima bomb after math to help with clean up and rescue. All of them contracted horrible atomic bomb diseases.
Obaachan herself had made 100s of haramaki for Japanese solders. Towards the end of the war, she, too, attended military practice to meet the American forces with the naginata. The atomic bomb saved thousands of Japanese civilians' lives. Why was Nagasaki bomb necessary? The Japanese hid the science behind the Hiroshima bomb from its population. Yurichan, who was a koto teacher, brought her classes of students to the Hiroshima bomb after math to help with clean up and rescue. All of them contracted horrible atomic bomb diseases.