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- 8 -interchanging with young people in thatcountry, I strongly came to think ”Peoplefrom any country jump for joy,sympathize and help people in trouble,shed tears when they feel sad, and getangry when they consider unreasonable.In terms of these emotions, all the peopleare the same in spite of the difference ofthe native places. It is very importantto understand each other and help eachother.” This thought became a part ofmy view of life. I would like to expressdeep gratitude for Mombushoscholarship system and to the teachers ofMiyazaki University.*Ueda Family in San DiegoWhen I sent e-mails to two students who studied at San Diego University (Ms. TomokoHidaka and Mr. Koichi Wakamatsu) to ask them to write about their life in San Diego, bothof them referred to the Japanese-American Ueda family. Then I asked directly Mr.Butteworth about his relation to the Uedas. His answer was like this: “They are Theodore(Ted) Ueda and Caroline Ueda. I met Mr. Ueda in 1964, when we were in theCommunications officer school of the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a Nisei (the secondgeneration of Japanese-American) who was born and brought up in Iwakuni. His fatherwas an Issei who could not go back to America because WWII suddenly broke out during hisstay in Japan. Tall and well-built, Ted went to America after the war and played an activepart in the football clubs of high school and university. He got married to Caroline, one ofhis classmates. Their parents were sent to a concentration camp during WWII (this is ashame of America). Tedparticipated in the Vietnam Warand after he came back to America,he was active in the IT field. Soonafter he took care of our students,he passed away. After that,Caroline and her younger sistervisited Miyazaki. (Then, I forgotthat our students were taken care ofby the Ueda Family---I should havemade a chance for them to meetme.) What I never forget about theUedas is that they never givecomplains about being raciallydiscriminated as JapaneseAmerican after the war. Lookingaround the world, it can be said thatas Bertolt Brecht wrote in Deraufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui the devil (the racial discrimination) has come around again.” At the end of his message,Mr.Butterworth wrote that he was thinking of asking how Caroline was doing.
