Shirota and her husband remained together for 28 years until his death.

She currently works as a physical therapy aide in an outpatient clinic.She plans to apply to graduate school for occupational therapy in the fall.

where she is lucky enough to incorporate her passion for travel into her career.The platform she has chosen to support this year is Little Tokyo Service CenterI remember theAsahi Shoe Store (Mr.

I made my mother buy me white majorette boots.I joined the Shojo Kabuki All-Girls Kabuki Troupe.

She was so pretty and she could really throw the baton up high into the sky! When we had to go to camp.

then the chanbara (sword fighting) samurai movies.Kazuo also traveled around the world as part of the President Protection Detail for President Nixon.

I developed a hatred and distrust of people — towards the Americans for what they did to us Japanese.From a background where all his friends were Japanese.

we were people without a home.and towards the Japanese friends who turned their backs on my mother after the death of her husband because of the hard times we were all facing.