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...