The World We Live In
I live a relatively comfortable and privileged life as a first generation Japanese American woman married to a white man living in Southern California. I do not have family members who were stripped of their livelihood and incarcerated during the war. Yet I carry the legacy of Japan, which initiated the war with Pearl Harbor Attack and consequently devastated by America’s victory as well as its own aggression (though in Japanese history text book, it was called, “advancement” ) in East Asian countries previously. That’s only just within the last century. The history has many more dark memories that still needs reconciliations and healings.