INTRODUCTION What prompted me to start this new blog is my Facebook post of March 26 about my emigrating from Japan and arriving in the United States in 1940. I was surprised by the response and the interest, as a few friends asked me to follow up. Since I've always intended to write about my memories while I still can, I'll start with that post. The ensuing account won't be chronological. It won't necessarily be true - some of our family stories I believe to be apocryphal, some of the stories will be only as I remember them. Some of it may just be a sentence or two; more of it, I suspect, will be quite a bit longer, since I tend to be a talker. The blog will be open to my friends and family to read as they wish.
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The Story Begins: When I first came to the United States (November 1940)
From Facebook (Pam Shack, March 26, 2019 at 20:56) Several people have asked me recently when and from where I immigrated. I arrived in the United States from Tokyo, Japan in November 1940 on the ss Tatsuta Maru . These photos are from my first passport. I was 4-1/2 years old. Because I was born in Japan, I was admitted under the Japanese quota (Quota No. 65). Even though it was toward the end of the calendar year, my quota number was very low, because Japanese nationals were not being admitted. I was given permanent resident status because an American family sponsored me. The ship first docked in Honolulu, then San Francisco, and then sailed to San Pedro, CA, where my mother and I disembarked. Although I was a British subject, I had not yet been to England and didn't know any of my family except my parents. On board the ss Tatsuta Maru . My mother knitted the cardigan. (She used the same pattern to knit cardigans for me until I was nine, when I left the United State...