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In 1872, when Alice was fourteen, Japanese envoy Mori Arinori selected her father's home as a residence for Japanese women being sent overseas for education by the Meiji government, as part of the Iwakura Mission. [1] Alice received twelve-year-old Yamakawa Sutematsu as her house-guest. The two girls were of similar age, and soon formed a close ...
Ann Bradford Davis (May 3, 1926 – June 1, 2014) was an American actress. [1] [2] She achieved prominence for her role in the NBC situation comedy The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1959), for which she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, but she was best known for playing the part of Alice Nelson, the housekeeper in ABC's The Brady Bunch (1969 ...
Agnes Newton Keith (born Agnes Jones Goodwillie Newton; July 4, 1901 – March 30, 1982) was an American writer best known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in North Borneo (now Sabah) before, during, and after World War II.
Born in Seattle, Washington on September 17, 1916, Kasai was the child of Japanese immigrants. [2] As a young child she was sent to live with her grandmother in Japan until she was six years old, before rejoining her family who had moved to Utah. [2] Kasai graduated from Carbon High School in 1935, and married Henry Kasai two years after.
Japan participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis.World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War encapsulate a significant period in the history of the Empire of Japan, marked by significant military campaigns and geopolitical maneuvers across the Asia-Pacific region.
A Town Like Alice: Japanese Sergeant: 1957: Sea Wife: Submarine Interpreter: 1958: The Camp on Blood Island: Japanese Patrol: Uncredited 1961: The Long and the Short and the Tall 'Tojo' 1963: 55 Days at Peking: Old Man: Uncredited 1963: The Cool Mikado: Ho Ho: 1965: A High Wind in Jamaica: Cook: 1965: The Saint: Angkor: Episode: "Sign of the ...
"for the Japanese government to include as reference in its textbooks and history books the reality of military sexual slavery through "comfort women" during World War II as a crime," "for the Japanese government to admit the use of force and violence in the conscription and treatment of the "comfort women" as military sex slaves, contrary to ...
One Maiden, Tomoko Nakabayashi, died during surgery. The Maidens returned to Japan in 1956 to mixed reception from the Japanese people. Some viewed them as tools of Cold War propaganda and cultural assimilation, while others praised them for improving Japan–United States relations.