In 1935, the Takahashis’ next-door neighbor on Pine Street brought one of his younger sisters to San Francisco from the family home in Hiroshima. Sakaye was nineteen. Like her three sisters (Momoko, Misao, and Masako) and younger brother, Shigeru (my dad), Sakaye had been born in Berkeley, where her parents ran a grocery store on […]
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Category: Before the War
The Oda Boys
(From a few photos, a few letters, and a few stories told over lunch with my mom and aunt, I have pieced together the story of the Oda boys. If at times my imagination ventures into the realm of fiction, please forgive me.) Sometime around 1932, Bachan went to the funeral of a family friend […]