A powerful but underrecognized chapter in American history is the story of Japanese war brides—women who married American servicemen during and after World War II. These women, who left ...

This program featured a panel of scholars talking about Japanese war brides and their children. They discussed the women’s lives in America… read more This program featured a panel of scholars ...

(Photos courtesy of Kathleen Burk) Washington Post editor Kathryn Tolbert, third from left, is pictured with members of the Aho family who were interviewed for the Japanese war brides oral history ...

The video is the trailer to a short documentary film, "Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides," which features Hiroko and two other war brides. She married my American GI father ...

Kathryn Tolbert is a journalist, and also one of the directors of the film, ‘Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: the Japanese War Brides.’ It’s a subject she knows well, as Tolbert’s mother ...

Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan.” ...

Three women (Kathryn Tolbert, Lucy Craft and Karen Kasmauski) — all first-born daughters of Japanese war brides who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s to wed Americans — have gotten together ...

Seventy years ago many Japanese people in occupied Tokyo after World War Two saw US troops as the enemy. But tens of thousands of young Japanese women married GIs nonetheless - and then faced a ...

They reveal the story of the Japanese war brides. Show more Atsuko, Emiko and Hiroko were among tens of thousands of Japanese women who married their former enemies after World War II. They landed ...