Greek_Gold_Rush

She moved around 2005 I believe (I don't even remember exactly :p) because her husband died on Christmas Eve of 2004 from hepatitis B. "This wasn't hard at all. I didn't want to be alone for the rest of my life. You're all here (her daughter, son in law, and grandchildren), and family is all I really need to be happy... But now I wouldn't mind going back to japan now. There's always good food... Man I want eat something delicious now." She studied to become an American citizen right after moving! And she got it :) (her English is bare minimum though, so any quotes from her will be a translation!)

ALSO: visiting hours are over(sorry started this late! Only answered one question :|), I'll be back to visit her tomorrow of course and we'll have hours to bang replies out! Thank you all for your help in questions so far, this really means a lot to preserve her story.

Oh hey I can answer this while I'm away from my grandma! My grandma got stomach cancer and only has about 30 % of her stomach left now after removing it. We have no idea if it's linked to the radiation. And my mom has a part of her brain missing. The front part, didn't even find that out till a few years ago though! When my mom brought the DVD to show us her missing lobe & hit play, a CD started to play instead and... Well that's all the proof we needed.

1) "It was like nothing. It came, so bright! And then nothing, it was nothing, and then the nothing disappeared. Do people learn about this in school now?"

2) "People can do bad things.. (she trailed off) and the Japanese were the bad ones you know?"

Edit: I told her an internet friend said to get well and she said " Really!? But I have to go to heaven I'm old."

1) "That's a difficult question. I think at the time... well I was a child so I just thought Americans were evil. Now though, I think the way the Japanese thought was bad then in comparison to how the Americans thought. And... everything is better now isn't it? laughs It made the war end. Of course I would want any other way to end it, but the government wasn't thinking clearly then."

2) "Not just myself, but EVERYONE thought we were the best! Japan is the strongest! And then afterwards it was like, well, we are a small country haha. And we have no money!"

"I survived because I was hiding in the mountains with other children. We knew a bomb would be dropped. We were told " a bomb is coming! a bomb is coming!" so we hid. When it happened... It was so frightening. More than I thought it would be. So loud. So loud you could feel it."

She doesn't remember when she realized it was the Americans, but she remembers afterwards when the Americans came.

"Everyone was talking about how they were coming and to hide! There was talk that they were very bad and would do bad things to us. They came to walk by the house and everyone had their gates closed. But they were actually very nice! They didn't do anything bad at all."