These audio slideshow stories are about Japanese women who married American GIs after World War II. It is part of larger multi-media effort to document this chapter of immigration history. For a description of our project, please read the About section. The audio stories are listed at right, organized by theme, or you can choose View All Stories.

— Kathryn Tolbert

Hiroko Tolbert, a Japanese war bride and my mother, at the family poultry farm in upstate New York in the early 1950s.