Kiyoko Terao interrupted her career as a Tokyo seamstress to come to Seattle, temporarily in 1959, to help her older sister care for her four children. While here, a Nisei asked her to marry him, and so she ended up staying. Below, Kiyoko shares her life story, beginning with her days as a high school student in Imabari, Ehime-ken, Shikoku, during World War II, continuing with her Seattle career, and ending with her present-day life.
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Among the most charming people whose voices, and occasionally, faces I come across these days is that of my friend, Kiyoko Terao. If it has been a ...