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(b. 1937) A war bride from Yokohama

Regret (Japanese)

(Japanese) Regret for me was how I couldn’t be dutiful for my parents. It’s impossible not to care about what people think. For that I feel like I had caused them troubles. That makes me sad. Rather than being dutiful to my parents, I was undutiful. I think a lot of us feel that way. Many war brides do.

When we talk about our parents and siblings, everybody shares similar sentiment. Even if you’re happy now, you still feel it. We caused troubles to our family. Mothers would cry because of it.

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Date: February 6, 2015

Location: California, US

Interviewer: Izumi Tanaka

Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Interviewee Bio

Terumi Hisamatsu Calloway was born in 1937 in Yokohama as the 5th of 10 children and grew up in the suburb of Tokyo during the war. She met her husband, Edward E. Calloway, who was a civilian engineer working at American military base in Tokyo and married him. In 1960, after having 2 children, Terumi moved to the U.S. with her family and settled in the Bay Area and had two more children. Later they moved to the Lompoc area where all of her 4 children - 2 girls and 2 boys - grew up. In 1977, they moved to Inglewood where she resides now. Terumi was widowed in 2009, and she currently works as a caregiver. (April 2016)

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