A Bridge Across the Pacific
Nitobe Memorial Garden is located in the campus of University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, from which I graduated. This garden commemorates the life of Inazo Nitobe (1862-1933). After Nitobe’s death his memorial plaque was built in the campus. Amid the anti-Japanese sentiment during the post-World War II era, the plaque was ripped out […]
A Soul Rising to Heaven — Losing My Child —
When my husband and I moved to Osaka in late August 1979, we left our youngest son, Habaku, in Tokyo as he had been accepted to a good high school there. A week later, on August 27, I received a call that Habaku had suddenly died of a heart attack while swimming in the ocean. […]