They live today in Newport News, Virginia. In 1969 she married an American in the U.S. military occupation of Okinawa (1945-72), the author worked briefly for the American forces in food service and laundry, and later for the Ryukyu Life Insurance Company. In the early months of the 27-year-long U.S. It concludes with her internment in a refugee camp during the battle’s chaotic aftermath. The portion of her autobiography presented here describes her harrowing experiences during the Battle of Okinawa, in which she was wounded by shellfire and narrowly avoided rape by an American soldier. Her father worked as a ship-builder and her mother made Panama hats, a major export from Okinawa at the time. Born in 1931, the 6th year of Shōwa, the author was raised in Okinawa’s famous port town of Tomari, a section of Naha City, the prefectural capital. Below are translated excerpts from Yoshiko Sakumoto Crandell’s autobiography, Tumai Monogatari: Shō wa no Tamigusa (Tomari Story: My Life in the Showa Era), published by Shimpō Shuppan in 2002.
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