{"id":8888,"date":"2011-08-19T04:20:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2011-08-19T04:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T19:20:04","slug":"my-great-roots-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=8888","title":{"rendered":"My Great Roots in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

remember about a year ago i started searching for my roots in japan? yeah, i didn’t forget. i’ve met family members in this past year that i didn’t even know existed. being 4th generation, some of the branches on our family tree fell off. and i went out to find it. it’s a totally weird feeling to know that i have probably a hundred of relatives living in japan that have no clue we’re related. maybe you might even be my cousin?
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\nmy grandpa osaki’s younger brother just passed away earlier this year. i went to see him 2 times last year and now i’m really glad i met my grandpa’s brother. they looked so alike that i got chicken skin. looking into his eyes was like looking into my own grandpa’s eyes. they were so distant from each other, but yet so close. the day i left japan to come back to hawaii on my last trip, i went to tokyo to pay my respects for grandpa masao. i didn’t know what i was doing but i lit the senko and prayed. i prayed and told him how happy i was that he is now with my grandpa osaki. they both lived over the age of 90 so they must have had fulfilling lives.
\nthen i started digging into some old photos with my aunty that grandpa masao left behind.
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\ni have never seen a photo of my grandpa osaki when he was young but now i seen a photo of what he must have looked like. this is his younger brother masao. good looking man.
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\nand this is the first time i seen a photo of my great grandma. this is my real great grandma that immigrated to hawaii from hiroshima to work on the plantation fields on the north shore. a branch is back on my family tree and i’m destined to dig even deeper. my roots are important to me and as i realize how japanese i really am, i’m even prouder to be japanese. it’s a weird feeling, but also rewarding. most of my relatives in japan are dead but i know there are a few cousins my age living and i’m going to find them.
\nP.S. Thank you Aunty Sumiko for the great sushi lunch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

remember about a year ago i started searching for my roots in japan? yeah, i didn’t forget. i’ve met family members in this past year that i didn’t even know existed. being 4th generation, some of the branches on our family tree fell off. and i went out to find it. it’s a totally weird […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[462,463,464],"class_list":{"0":"post-8888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs","7":"tag-family-tree","8":"tag-fukunaga","9":"tag-osaki"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}