Interview with Masako Winters
From the Land of the Rising Sun to the Land of Liberty
For this Immigration Stories Project, I interviewed my mother, Masako Nagasaki Winters who is a Japanese citizen. Growing up I had always heard stories here and there about the life she had lived before I was ever a part of it, but this was our first time ever sitting down to talk about it face to face and in detail for longer than ten minutes. It was also especially different since we’d focused more on the actual process of her immigration itself more than we ever had before, and it was the first I had ever heard of the details. I have done plenty of interviews for other sociology courses in the past, which were all quite nerve-wracking, yet in this instance my mom and I were able to have a much more casual conversation despite the formal circumstances of the project, given that we often find ourselves discussing culture and being a Japanese mixed status family in America in our everyday lives.
Methods
Our interview was conducted on November 25, 2020 at around 2:00 PM. Given that I was home for Thanksgiving we were able to have this conversation in person, which made things easier for the both of us rather than doing the interview over Zoom because my mom doesn’t even know how to make bookmarks and save favorites on her desktop, let alone operate Zoom.
Before starting our interview, I informed my mom about what this interview would entail and who would be able to view the content. She seemed pretty relaxed about it all as she typed her signature into the PDFs of the consent forms with no complaint or question. After a short bit of side chatter in Japanese, which I edited out of the audio, our interview then began. It started off with a general introduction of my mom introducing herself with her name, age, and country of origin.
It can be easy: “It was nothing political”
After introducing herself, my mom stated from the very beginning that she is not an American citizen but a green card holder. She chuckled when I asked if there was any political, social, or economic circumstances that influenced her decision to leave Japan – any push factors. She joked saying that her situation was nothing that serious and that she had simply wanted to follow the man who she felt wouldn’t lead her astray if she took a leap of faith to move to a foreign country on the other side of the world with. Simply a case of “I met him, and we got married in Guam” as she said.
Thus, alongside my father, my mom entered America through Guam. She told me that there was a naval station there and my father was a part of the United States Navy at the time, so they figured starting the immigration process to enter mainland America there was much easier than doing it from Japan. However, my mom mentioned that initially she was only given a “temporary” green card, one that would allow her to stay in America “legally” while she awaited the process of receiving the permanent green card. Then the two of them headed to Pensacola, due to my father getting stationed there next, mid-immigration process for my mom. All in all, it had actually taken her about two years (1996-1998) to become a permanent resident from when she first left Japan and came to Guam for her to become an official permanent resident of the United States. The big reason for such a delay was actually because she was pregnant with me at the time and could not travel back and forth from Pensacola to Jacksonville where the immigration office was located.
However, something that I found interesting in that exchange was the fact that the immigration services office was lenient enough to allow my mom to “have all the time she needed” after she had the baby to come and finalize the process. It leads me to wonder if such leniency, which I find rare and pretty unfathomable in today’s political climate and administration, was a result of the times (the late 1990s) or because of her nation of origin. After thinking about it, I realized that my mom had two things working in her favor at this time: the fact that she was married to a United States serviceman and because she was Japanese. I believe that my mom being Japanese was very significant because of the fact that, as we found this semester through the passport index, having a Japanese passport usually offers some of the highest mobility around the world (before Covid times).
It’s interesting to think how we as a society have made a transition to considering immigrants from Asia as “less threatening” and “more acceptable”. This itself has quite a racialized political background to it given the history of Asian immigrant groups once being the biggest target of anti-immigration sentiment in the early 1880s through the Second World War which then slowly transitioned to African, Latinx, and Middle Eastern groups being targeted from about the 1970s onto today, according to Douglas Massey and Karen Pren’s timeline described in their article on unintended consequences of America’s immigration policies. It’s not to say that immigrants from Asia suddenly did not face discrimination and hardship at all after the 1970s, but it is fair to say that since the target shifted, immigrants from Asia have found some unintended “advantages” persay.
Furthermore, being the immigrant wife of an American sailor was one, for lack of a better word, easier way to enter the United States as a documented immigrant. At another point in the interview, my mom even mentions that out of the three times she had to go through the green card process, her first time going through it when she was married to my father was the easiest and smoothest. Even in the Piore article we read for class, it mentioned how American military bases located abroad end up creating a range of social and political connections that promote the movement of immigrants. This is exemplified by servicemen meeting locals who want to accompany them home and so they get married; this gives the foreign spouse a claim of entry into the United States. This was exactly the case for my mom.
On top of this, a barrier that many immigrants face is one of language. However, based on what my mom explained, it seemed that she wasn’t necessarily scared or worried about that. Again, she mentioned it was fairly easy to process her paperwork given my father’s status, and she had faith in him that he’d help her in the transition from Japanese to American society. But in addition to this, my mom also had the privilege of having prior college experience outside of Japan and in her career. When I asked if she had had any prior experience leaving Japan, she mentioned that she actually participated in a year-long study abroad program in London with a student visa. Additionally, she mentioned that after graduating from college she began to work for British Petroleum at their Tokyo office under a British supervisor, so this allowed her to practice conversational and workplace English.
So overall, her own interest in learning English and already having experience in using it helped her tremendously in her transition to actually living in an English-speaking country. She was lucky enough to at least know some English that allowed her to get by in the beginning; it’s not like she was in an environment where she knew absolutely nothing about the language, culture, and was starting completely from zero like how it is for many other immigrants. She joked about how her experience might not have been as interesting or filled with struggle compared to other stories we hear about often, but I think that a lot of the easiness of her transition wraps back to her frame of reference. She came to America by choice, and her push factors to leave Japan were not necessarily life-threatening economic, political, or social pressures/instability that urged her to pursue a better life for herself in America. Objectively speaking, she had the option to return to Japan, and she often considered it. But she had her reasons for staying in America.
The process and its changes
My mom has been here for an incredibly long time. She informed me that, including the years before I had been born, she has been here in America for almost 25 years. Ironically, it sounds like most of her life struggles happened after she came to America. For one thing, the second and third time she had to renew her green card to remain in America was considerably different and more difficult than it had initially been the first time she came with my father.
“The second time, which was 2009, it was not too bad, but I had to apply and then obtain the paper from online and make an appointment by myself. And I went to the local immigration office in 2009. It was a little more of a process [compared to the first time]. But I got the green card in, I think, less than a month or less than two months. I don’t remember, but I didn’t wait that long.”
But what was significantly different was the third time she had to renew her green card. It was different because by this time she was now officially divorced from my father and no longer had any ties with him. And the nation was now under a new administration, the Trump administration. When I asked how different the third renewal experience was, her response was
“Last year [in] 2019… It was really, really long. Because I did everything… then they took my fingerprint as usual, and I submitted the paperwork… But this time, they gave me a sticker on my old green card… [and told me] to wait one year until it expired next year. And I asked why it takes so long? But I guess maybe because there’s the situation… the immigration situation is different or something. So, they said ‘Well that’s why. We are giving us time, one year to process your status’. And I was like okay, but they took the money right away. The process fee, they took the money right away. But I ended up having to wait almost 10 months or 11 months… And then the people in the office told me ‘If you don’t receive a new green card, before the day it expires then come here again. And we will give you another sticker to put on the card’… So, I guess the immigration process definitely obviously looks different compared to 10 years ago or 20 years ago… It was probably different [altogether]. But the second time I did it by myself, but I still got the card in less than two months.”
I speculate that the slowness of a process as simple as renewal, one that used to only take two weeks or less, is a result of the immense changes to immigration altogether that have been occurring for the past 15 years or so – especially since 2016. As we’ve discussed in class about immigration policy, immigration has always been a pretty political agenda on all sides. However, unfortunately, in the past five to ten years or so, it has intensified and has resulted in a lot more resources going toward border control, deportations, and other enforcements. This affects other areas of immigration services as a whole, too. By 2021, the Donald Trump will have reduced legal immigration by 49%. Such drastic changes and reallocation of resources is far from unrelated to the slow operation of other services such as renewing the status of other immigrants that have lived in America, documented, for years.
In Conclusion: “This is how I see America”
During her time in America my mom has experienced extreme economic instability with being the only one able to work and care for her child after getting divorced. And though she had a higher education, it still left her unable to gain upward social and economic mobility. This is actually a common occurrence with many immigrants, where the individual has a bachelor’s degree or higher from their home country yet is unable to secure better jobs after coming here because, in America and without speaking perfect English, they are considered unqualified for many positions. This is also exemplified in Tomás Maestro’s story in Smith’s article on renegotiations of gender in Ticuani. For Maestro, he had been a teacher in his home country and enjoyed significant social mobility there but was unable to continue the same career after coming to America because he lacked the qualifications and lacked the finances to return to school in order to obtain those credentials.
This may bring up the question of why my mom ended up staying instead of returning to Japan if things were not easy in America and there was nothing necessarily pushing her out of her home country. Her reason for staying was for her child’s sake, as is the case for many immigrants that come to America – no matter what hardships they may face, they roll with the punches for the sake of their children for reasons such as this:
“This is how I see America like say, you know…in this country, people try to be American in this country. Japan is totally different, you know. But the good thing in America, is that they don’t say ‘foreigner’, they don’t use that word often [in a negative way], like in Japan. If you’re not born in Japan, Japanese people call you foreigner but in America, they don’t say it that way, which is more openness and which is more, to me, [shows that] immigrants make this country… but it [also] depends on the leadership in this country.”
And with me being a second-generation immigrant who obviously did not look Japanese, she was concerned about my school life and figured I would have better educational opportunities, intellectually and socially, if we both remained in America.
“That’s the goal. So, at least, until she graduates college, four years of college, I’m here, and then after that she’s going to be on her own. And then my job as a single mom is done.”
So, though life in America was harder for her than in her home country, like many immigrant parents she stayed here for the payoff of her daughter having more access to opportunities and chances for upward social mobility and personal success.
Jasmine 0:00
This is a digitally recorded interview with Masako Winters. The interview was conducted by Jasmine Winters in-person on November 25 at approximately 2:30pm.
What is your name, age, and nationality?
Masako 0:17
My name is Masako Nagasaki Winters. That’s my legal name in the United States. I came to the United States in 1996 from Japan. I am Japanese and 53 years old.
Jasmine 0:40
What city in Japan are you from? From where in Japan? Are you from?
Masako 0:44
Do you mean my hometown?
Jasmine 0:46
Yes.
Masako 0:46
Kobe.
Jasmine 0:47
Kobe. Where’s that?
Masako 0:48
Kobe, Hyogo prefecture.
Jasmine 0:51
Where in Japan is that located?
Masako 0:55
It’s Southwest, next to Osaka. The Hyogo prefecture is located next to the Osaka, which is the second biggest city after Tokyo. But I’m not an American citizen. I am a green card permanent residence holder since 1996.
Jasmine 1:19
So you’ve been here since 1996.
Masako 1:24
Actually, I came in in 1996. But the first two years it was, back in the day, I was “temporary” green card holder. And then I guess they told me in order to prove that this is not to fake paper marriage. So after a year and a half, we had to go to the immigration office to get permanent status because the first two years they gave me a temporary even when I did a full paperwork. They didn’t make me a full green card holder back in a day. I don’t know about right now. So we, me and my ex husband, had to go to the immigration office to gain a permanent green card status.
But at that time I was pregnant with my daughter. So my OBGYN didn’t recommend driving from Pensacola, Florida to Jacksonville, Florida to do the paperwork. So my ex-husband wrote a letter to the immigration it was 1998 summer, sometime in June or July, something like that. We were supposed to show up at our immigration office but at that time I five months or six months pregnant, so we couldn’t go drive a six hours drive. So, from the OBGYN letter to immigration, immigration gave us some extended time. So I my daughter was born December 7, 1998. And then after the baby, the immigration office said “whenever you’re ready, you can come after having the baby”. So we went to the immigration office in 1999 sometime January or February, something like that. To do the regular paperwork to gain permanent, real permanent green card status. So since then, so actually, I became an “officially” legal green card holder since 1999. Sometime in January or February, I forgot the month.
Jasmine 4:01
Alright, thank you for that. So, what brought you over here at first when you were first coming over in 1996? Was there social or political or like economic circumstances that pushed you to leave and come to America? Or were there other reasons that weren’t really related to the social or political climate? Because, for instance, with some immigrants, you know, sometimes they are escaping from like, political chaos and become refugees. Was there anything like that in Japan at the time that you were leaving? Or was it another personal reason for coming over to America?
Masako 4:41
It’s nothing political. Nobody forced me to move here. It’s just because I met my ex-husband in Japan. He was in the United States Navy. I met him, and we got married in Guam and, well, paperwork wise since Guam belonged to America it was easy to process instead of doing all the paperwork in Japan. So that’s why we did the paperwork-slash-honeymoon [in Guam]. So we fly to Guam, and then we get married. So the reason why I came to United States was just because of my marriage. I met my ex husband, who was in the American Navy. And that’s why I came to the United States in 1996. There was no political reason or nothing, no business or anything, any other reason. It was just because of my marriage, and my ex-husband got ordered to Pensacola, Florida. So that’s why we came here [Florida] in 1996.
Jasmine 5:50
So I guess that answers the next question of who you immigrated with, if anybody? Or was there any kind of contact that was already in America upon your arrival that helped you make connections and stuff?
Masako 6:03
That was my ex husband.
Jasmine 6:06
Okay. And how was that experience? Just like, coming over here and leaving Japan, did you have any prior experience with leaving Japan before you immigrated to America?
Masako 6:20
I had never been to the United States before 1996 until I came here, but I did have experience living oversea for a short term. From 1987 to 1988. I was an exchange student in the United Kingdom, London for just one year. So that was the first time I left Japan. So I just, I spend that one year school time as an exchange student in London, London University.
Jasmine 7:05
How old were you at the time?
Masako 7:07
Twenty. So in 1987, September, no, actually the end of August. And then I started taking class in 1987 September in London University. And then I turned 21 in 1988, January 17. So I went there when I was 20, and when I left the UK, I was 21.
Jasmine 7:44
So did you have any knowledge of English before coming to America? I know you went to college for a year in England. So is that how you learned most of your English? Or did you already know a substantial amount of English before coming to America?
Masako 8:03
Yes. In my generation, in Japan, we had to take English class. At least I think three or four hours in a week in junior high school. So actually, I took it in junior high school and an even in high school. And then my college major was English literature, like Shakespeare and stuff like that. So I did learn English before I came to America, but the conversation wise it was it’s a little different. And then I also worked under British Petroleum in Tokyo. So I did have a British boss in my office. So yes, I did speak English before I came to the United States.
Jasmine 9:00
So when you came to America, initially, Was there anyone that you were leaving behind in Japan? Since you came over by yourself to America? Was there anyone? Any like family or friends that you were leaving behind in Japan upon entering America?
Masako 9:19
Yes. My parents live in Kobe, and my younger brother was living in Tokyo at that time. Or maybe Osaka? I don’t remember. But yes, my parents and my brother in Japan.
Jasmine 9:36
Have you returned home or ever visited since leaving? Since it’s been a long time?
Masako 9:42
Yes. Ah, the first time was 2000 or 2001. I think it’s 2000 February. [It was] my brother’s first marriage, so we went to attend the wedding. That was the very first time for my daughter to visit Japan. And then for me too since I moved to the United States, so after that, several times. I mean, most likely every other year, me and my daughter visit my family in Japan.
Jasmine 10:24
And what is the process like of going back and forth between countries? When you’re traveling, is it the same or is it different? Like when you’re trying to come back or when you’re entering back into Japan or trying to come back into America? Is there any significant experiences or processes that happen when you’re traveling between the countries?
Masako 10:49
Uh, I don’t need to get a visa or anything because we just visited only three or four weeks maximum. So, I don’t think I need any paperwork or anything. The only thing is that I do carry a Japanese passport and my daughter carries an American passport. So when [we] get in the immigration gate, it’s a little process each time but it’s nothing major. We don’t need any [additional] paperwork or anything.
Jasmine 11:30
You mentioned not needing a visa when you travel between Japan and America. Have you ever had a visa before? Or had to hold a visa?
Masako 11:43
To the United States?
Jasmine 11:46
Yes to enter the United States.
Masako 11:47
No because I don’t know how long, but I never stayed anywhere more than 60 days or 90 days. I remember if it’s more like 90 days, do we need something… [unintelligible]
But United States I have never done any paperwork for a visa. But when I went to England, back in the day, I did carry a student visa. I had to do all the paperwork in Japan before I left. And I had to show them at the Heathrow Airport, at the immigration gate.
Jasmine 12:27
Are there any steps or extra actions that you have to take in order to stay in America? Such as renewing your green card? Or if you do, how often do you have to do that?
Masako 12:40
Yes. So once you get a permanent green card, we have to do a renewal every 10 years. So I did a while I get the real one in 1999 and then 2009, and I just did it actually last year 2019. So yeah, I did it twice.
Jasmine 13:07
So that’s three times?
Masako 13:10
Three times actually, yes. I did.
Jasmine 13:12
That’s over a long period of time. So obviously things have changed from when you first came over to how things are now. So are there any significant experiences or changes or difficulties that you’ve experienced compared to your first time getting your green card approved?
Masako 13:35
The paperwork and all the process is the same for me, on my side. But the immigration office, time wise, is different. The very first time of course, I was married. So it’s easy. Everything was under my ex-husband’s name. So nothing happened and then I just got the physical green card [in] less than two weeks.
Jasmine 14:01
Less than two weeks?
Masako 14:02
Yes, mailed to my home in Pensacola, Florida. But a second time, which was 2009, it was not too bad, but I had to apply and then obtain the paper from online and make an appointment by myself. And I went to the local immigration office in 2009. It was a little more of a process. But I got the green card in, I think, less than a month or less than at least two months. I don’t remember, but I didn’t wait that long.
Jasmine 14:46
But it took longer than two weeks?
Masako 14:48
Yeah, took longer than two weeks. Yes, but think less than one month or two months, something– it’s not too bad. But this time, the latest time, which was last year 2019… It was really, really long. Because I did everything and everything was smooth. And then they took my fingerprint as usual, and everything and I submitted the paperwork.
But this time, they gave me a sticker on my old green card, physical green card, to wait one year until it expired next year. And I asked why it takes so long? But I guess maybe because there’s the situation, the immigration situation is different or something. So, the office, they said “Well that’s why. We are giving us time, one year to process your status”. And, I was like okay, but they took the money right away. The process fee, they took the money right away. But I ended up having to wait almost 11 month, almost 10 months or 11 months? Because I was starting to think about if they were gonna send it to me or what? And then the people in the office told me “If you don’t receive a new green card, before the day it expires then come here again. And we will give you another sticker to put on the card”. And that’s what they said. So I started to worry about it after 10 months, which is September or maybe August, July or August…
Jasmine 16:51
This was September last year? Or when did you start the process?
Masako 16:59
I had to do this process September 2019. So I just got that this year, July? August? Yes. So it took 10 months this time. So, I guess the immigration process definitely obviously looks different compared to 10 years ago or 20 years ago. Yeah, well 20 years ago doesn’t count because I was married. So it was probably different [altogether]. But the second time I did it by myself, but I still got the card in less than two months [unintelligible]. The second time.
Jasmine 18:02
So, almost a year.
Masako 18:05
Yes.
Jasmine 18:06
Interesting.
Masako 18:07
Yes. And so the sticker doesn’t show when I make a copy either. So every January I have to renew my business license in the city of Virginia Beach. Since I own my small business by myself, self-employed. I have to renew the business license every January. And then I used to do it through the mail because it was just a copy of my green card and, you know, all the other paperwork and then I put an envelope in the mail and then the Virginia City of Virginia sends me a business license.
But this time, the extended expiration sticker doesn’t show on a copy, a paper copy, because somehow, I don’t know, the ink or something. So I had to go to the office, city hall, to renew the license and then explain to the lady “this is what has happened” but I did the process to renew the green card because I have to prove everything. I’m a “legal alien”. To obtain and keep that business license, so I had to go to the office this past January 2020 to renew my business license just because the sticker. The sticker doesn’t go through the copy machine. Yeah, so this time is a little different.
Jasmine 20:05
Aside from that, what has life in general been like since immigrating to America? Like since you’ve been here, maybe how have things changed in any way? Like, have you ever noticed how things have changed in America, and how that affects your life personally? Because what is it, you’ve been here 20 years? Twenty-one?
Masako 20:25
Twenty… four? It’s gonna be twenty-five. To me, personally, of course, when I was married, I came here as a Navy wife. And I didn’t need to worry about it too much, I mean, I just enjoy and learn. And I never tried to become AMERICAN American, an American citizen, which is [something] I don’t [want]. But I was really more optimistic when I came here, just because, you know, I was married. And I feel like I have somebody to protect me, you know, from all the different culture and different society in a different country. Of course, I was a Navy wife. But everything has changed since I divorce. Because I don’t have anybody to protect me. Or I have to do everything by myself, I got to figure out by myself, and good things, I have a good clients and friends and, you know, like, extended family to me. They helped me get through things. And so I was good.
But, I don’t know anything about political or any other things. But my personal life, yes. It is totally different. And my attitude, the way of my thinking is, of course, totally different since 2009. And becoming a single mom in the United States. And actually, nobody — Well yes, my friends helped me but, you know, financial wise, it was really tough. So this personal life makes me more independent and strong about trying to get more information in this country. I think it [makes me pay ] more attention to my surroundings. And at the same time, I really feel the differences [between] America and Japan.
I mean, I’m getting know America after 20 something years. Yes. And good things. Where I come from in Japan things are totally different. But you know, I see the both sides. I see the good things and bad things. Both sides in both ways in both country, so of course, you know. So… But what I like in America is, of course, this is immigrant [country]. I’m an immigrant. The diversity and the openness. That’s what I like. But I think it depends on on the generation too.
Jasmine 23:55
Have you noticed, or do you feel like there’s a change in how, maybe people who aren’t from America are changed with the generations like how they’re treated?
Masako 24:04
Yes. Yes. It’s not only in America, I think generation is a big key everywhere, even in Japan. Maybe because of the technology and the internet is helping. So it is the generation and then it depends on the generation if you’re talking about some kind of subject, or immigrant too, so… what was the question again?
Jasmine 24:42
Or just like how it’s changed over the generation.
Masako 24:45
Yes, it has changed.
Jasmine 24:46
Is there anything like specific, have you ever experienced, something that has happened or felt like recently that maybe you never would have thought about 10 years ago?
Masako 25:02
10 years…
Jasmine 25:05
10 years was just an example of time. But if there was any time throughout.
Masako 25:14
This is how I see America like say, you know, in America, people are not born as American. In this country, people try to be American in this country. That’s how I see [the difference] from Japan. Japan is totally different, you know. But the good thing in America, is that they don’t say “foreigner”, they don’t use that word often, like in Japan. The people use “foreigner”, which means people coming from another country. If you’re not born in Japan, Japanese people call you foreigner but in America, they don’t say it that way, which is more openness and which is more, to me, [shows that] immigrants make this country. So this is the difference in the people’s mindset, it is different. Which I is think, but it [also] depends on the leadership in this country. The whole situation has changed. I’m trying to use the right word. But… here, the openness is really good. And diversity is good, but it depends on how the country is led. Does it make sense?
Jasmine 26:44
Yeah.
Masako 26:45
I am trying to be careful in using the word but yeah, that’s how I see it as an immigrant and as a single mom, you know, surviving in this country. So overall, it’s not bad. But to me, society and the system wise, there’s no steady bottom line here in this country.
Jasmine 27:30
Like a foundation?
Masako 27:32
Yes. That’s the thing. So it’s very fragile and easy to change. Yeah. Which is sometimes good. But in some parts, I don’t feel safe or when, especially when you’re getting older. It’s not stable system-wise. Yes. That’s how I see.
Jasmine 28:01
Have you ever considered becoming an American citizen? Has it ever crossed your mind?
Masako 28:07
No. Not at all.
Jasmine 28:10
Do you want to explain why?
Masako 28:16
I said not at all right now. But I was thinking, when I was married, when my parents passed away, I think it just because I came from Japan. In Japan, we’re not allowed to have a dual citizen, like the other countries. Some countries are. So if were allowed to have both American and Japanese citizenship at the same time, I maybe would have when I was married.
Because when I was married, I was going to become a citizen when my parents passed away, or some kind of, you know, more like, toward to the end of my life, you know, when I’m getting older. But, um, I got divorced, and my parents are getting older, and we’re not allowed to have a both [citizenship]. So you know, that’s why my answer was not at all. So… right now, no.
Jasmine 29:23
And then Have you ever thought about ever going back to Japan?
Masako 29:26
Yes. After [getting] divorced, yes.
Jasmine 29:32
Do you have plans to go back? For right now what is keeping you here in America if you do eventually plan to go back?
My child’s education. That’s my goal.
So when do you plan to go back, what is the time when everything is said and done in America, when do you plan to go back to Japan?
Masako 30:01
When, when my daughter finished a four years education, that’s the borderline. That’s the goal. So, at least, until she graduated college, four years of college, I’m here and then after that she’s going to be on her own. And then my job as a single moms job is done. So, after that, yes, so far, I do want to go back to Japan, my homeland and the close to my parents.
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