This account begins with recollections of early childhood in pre-war Japan, and festive activities shared with her adoptive mother.
A return visit to Nagasaki in 1995 brought back a flood of memories of her childhood visit to the Okunchi Festival (Dragon Dance).
In 1953 she married a career army soldier and became an Army Wife in tours of duty in Germany, the United States and Puerto Rico.
Marines in late 1945 led to her employment by the Occupation Forces.
A chance encounter with the U.
S.
She gives a harrowing account of her survival of the Atomic Bomb attack on Nagasaki.
A young soldier with whom she had a budding romance did not return from the fighting.
Her teenage years fell under the shadow of war.
This account begins with recollections of early childhood in pre-war Japan, and festive activities shared with her adoptive mother
