Ariel Okamoto
Ariel Okamoto is a fourth-generation Japanese American living in Los Angeles. She currently works as a copywriter at UCLA and as a freelance grant writer and development consultant. Her spare time is devoted to family activities, church and community volunteering, cultural learning, and creative writing.
Updated October 2018
Stories from This Author
Finding Nikkei Roots Around the World
Oct. 15, 2018 • Ariel Okamoto
Travel uproots daily routines for new places and new discoveries. But, somehow, my own discoveries in my own travels have often given me deeper roots—especially in my evolving Japanese American identity. * * * * * Hiroshima, Japan. Still half asleep, a few of us high schoolers crept out of the hotel and down to the water to watch the first rays of light over the bay—a mandatory, I thought, when visiting the land of the rising sun. This exchange …
