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Yoshiko Joy Tsuzuki was born in NYC and grew up in the Bronx during the 1930s. After FDR was re-elected in 1940, the Japanese community in NYC saw the war approaching and the Japanese company who employed her father sent dependents (including Joy and her mother) back to Japan. Her cousin's family didn't get out in time and ended up in a concentration camp. After Pearl Harbor, her father was arrested by the FBI; he was returned to Japan in the 1942 prisoner exchange. She spent the war years in Japan, enduring hunger, bombings, and a harrowing journey to exchange some of her dresses for sugar the family could trade for food & supplies. After the war, she became the first woman and youngest interrogator/interpreter for the U.S. Air Force Intelligence in Japan. In the 50s, she married and returned to the U.S., went to college, raised 3 children and became a piano teacher in suburban NJ. Perhaps her ordinary/extraordinary story may help readers better understand the fraught history of Americans of Japanese descent, and to recognize the humanity behind those our country has too often classified as “undesirable aliens.”
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