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My こどものにほんご.  \nShe told me she had one just like it.  \nI asked her to show it to me. She said no.  \nShe said it was gone.  \nBurned. Ashes.  \nSmoldering in a trash can  \nstill coughing up smoke in her mind.  \nThis is the first I heard of the Japanese American Concentration Camps. After coming from a class learning how to say phrases like  \nこんばんわ and おはよう and げんきですか and はじめまして I learned the Japanese phrase  \nthat I find most important to a lineage of forgetting.  \n“しかたがない  \nI know “Shikata Ga Nai”. was passed from Obaasan to Okaasan to Ko. I am sure of it. The textbook smoldering in a trash can. The curfew. The taking by the FBI.  \nThe executive order. The assembly center. Sleeping in horse stalls. The trip to the desert. The fences. The barracks. The trauma. The trauma.  \nThe picking up of everything again. Everything again with nothing from before.  \nShikata Ga Nai.  \nI was 13 when my Grammy accidentally told me about her Japanese American Concentration Camps.  \nI know it was an accident because Father did not find out till he was 23.  \nGrammy did not plan on giving me the news about cultural erasure a decade early.  \n1 reference to Inuyasha, a popular Japanese Anime.  \n2 a popular Anime Magical Girl.  \n3 non-Japanese people obsessed with Japanese Culture  \nStories.  \nThere is an old Japanese Storybook in my home.  \nThe spine, cracked and fractured.  \nThe pages, yellow and aged.  \nI imagine this book passed from hand to hand in Tokyo.  \nA stowaway on a ship bound for America.  \nFrom Obaasan to Okaasan to Ko.  \nA book older than grandparents.  \nThis year, I found the book sleeping.  \nIt snored in a forgotten shelf.  \nDust, like sleep-sand, caked the pages and cover.  \nI opened it up to find it was bought at Walmart.  \nThe story I remember the most is Momotaro4.  \nA boy that was born from a peach.  \nHalf boy, half peach.  \nDid he wonder what it was like to be a peach too and not just a boy?  \nDid he think about it?  \nDid he look at the fruit and wonder how?  \nOr did he just not care.  \nI wondered. I wondered.  \nI am Hapa. half Japanese and half White.  \nI am also, like Peach Boy, a little fruity.  \nPerhaps this is what keeps him in my mind. Some sort of sexy Japanese storybook hero that I wished would sweep me off my feet. Fight off the DMV employee with a katana when she tells me my eyes are closed in my license picture and we must retake it.  \nParry the attacks from Full Asians that say I am“not pure”Asian.  \nHold me on a moonlit hill and whisper“you are Asian enough”.  \nI know what it is like to be fruity too.  \nI know what it is like to be half of something too.  \nOne half you know so well. And the other is.  \nThe other just is.  \n4 Peach Boy, an old Japanese Fable.  \nPearl Harbor.  \nMy father told me about his first day of school, when pencils and erasers reconnected and tin lunchboxes made new friends.  \nHe would go to the history book as  \nclassmates talked of summer trips and cicada shells And flip from page to page.  \nLook at the units and the chapters.  \nLewis and Clarke exploring. Trails ofTears. See the years go by in an American History.  \nMy father looked for Pearl Harbor in the pages.  \nHe knew it would come up right after pictures of white Flappers.  \nAfter Prohibition and Jazz.  \nHe would flip the page to find Pearl Harbor.  \nAnd then he was Enemy.  \nHe guessed it would take tw","cbCaicloKL6ZNOsy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicloKL6ZNOsy","pdf",91873,"English","# Family Heirlooms - a collection\n## Japanese language lessons and inherited phrases\n## The lineage of forgetting and concentration camp history\n## Heirloom books and Momotaro\n## Being biracial and facing stereotypes\n## History, “enemy,” and repeating harm\n## A trip to Seattle and the aftermath","[{\"question\":\"What does “shikata ga nai” represent in the story?\",\"answer\":\"It is portrayed as an inherited phrase passed through generations, becoming a lens for endurance amid cultural forgetting and forced erasure.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the narrator learn about Japanese American concentration camps?\",\"answer\":\"A family member accidentally reveals the camps to the narrator during conversation, before the father finds out much later.\"},{\"question\":\"What conflict does the narrator face regarding identity and “purity”?\",\"answer\":\"The narrator describes being half Japanese and half White, being labeled “not pure” Asian by others, and searching for validation and belonging.\"}]","Family Heirlooms - a collection | PDF"]