World War II: The Fukuhara Family

World War II was one of the most devastating times in history, tens of millions of people had died civilian and soldier alike, many ruthlessly killed or bombed from afar. It was a tragedy on all sides. This is about how one family. The Fukuharas Kinu is the Mother and There’s aunt Kiyo and Kinu’s sons Harry, Frank, Pierce, Victor and her daughter Mary. The Fukuharas lived through World War II and showed resilience, remained hopeful, and exhibited loyalty. The Fukuharas are Japanese who have moved from Japan to the United States and back before World War II.

The Fukuhara family are resilient. They endured the toughest of times during World War II, suffering persecution, starvation, and the deaths of friends and family. Harry had to endure

They had to sell what little they had through the black market, but they kept going. Kinu helped in the community and Frank continued to find ways to avoid the draft. War was a battle of life and death. People die in war. Some of the Fukuhara Families most despairing moments were when they had lost Victor to radiation burns from when the atomic bomb dropped, and when Kiyo had lost the will to go on. She had killed herself by jumping on to the railroad tracks ”Kiyo waited. Seconds before the train slowed in its approach to the station, she jumped. At 3:30 a.m., the sixty-two-year-old matriarch was pronounced dead.”(Sakamoto 343). Both Kiyo and Victor were sorrowfully missed, but even when faced with such tragedies the Fukuharas moved forward. Frank accomplished this by translating and selling nick-nacks to pay for medicine for Kinu and for Peirce to continue and finish college, They had continued to survive and

Even when their family was split with one side in America and the other in Japan, their loyalty never faltered. They had it worse still when their countries went to war with each other, but still the Fukuhara’s loyalty to each other never diminished. Their bond was more important to them than their own country’s pride. Even after fighting for their country against each other Harry and Frank remained brothers, holding to family loyalty. “As long as he could remember, he had loved and respected his older brother. ‘Harry was like a father and a brother,’ Frank said. Despite the abyss of war, as far as Frank was concerned, nothing had come between them.” (Sakamoto 332). Even through war they were still