Yoko kawashima watkins biography

Yoko Kawashima Watkins was born in Japan in 1933.
Yoko Kawashima Watkins received The Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts, which cited her as an "inspiration to young people throughout America and the world.".
So Far from the Bamboo Grove is an autobiography written by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, a Japanese American writer.

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Includes the names: Watkins Yoko Ka, Yoko Kawashawa Watkins, KAWASHIMA WATKINS YOKO

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In my opinion, this is an amazing book. The main character, Yoko, is one of the most believable characters. She had to leave her father behind and travel with her mother and sister for their own safety. There are many readers who can relate to this tough issue on a personal level. The readers can also relate to the issue of losing a loved one, which happened to Yoko when she found out her grandparents were killed in a bombing and when her mother died. For example, on page 121 it says, “My show more fathers and your father’s parents were all killed in the July bombing.” The point of view coming from Yoko also helps connect emotionally to the book. It allows you to see how much Yoko struggles traveling to Japan with her mother and sister and how tired, devastating, and horrible the whole experience has been. Although there are no illustrations

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Yoko Kawashima Watkins

Brewster - Yoko Kawashima Watkins died December 8 at her home in Brewster, MA. She was the author of the fictionalized memoirs So Far from the Bamboo Grove, and My Brother, My Sister, and I. Her father, a highly placed diplomat, was stationed in Harbin, China at the time of her birth in 1933. He was soon sent to Nanam, in northern Korea, where he attempted to act as a buffer between the Korean population and the often-brutal Japanese occupiers. Nanam was the site of the home in a bamboo grove from which 11-year-old Yoko, her sister Ko, her brother Hideyo, and their mother fled in 1945 when Japan lost the war. Their survival as refugees forms the narratives of the two books. In 1952, Yoko married an American serviceman, Donald Watkins, and moved to the U.S. So Far from the Bamboo Grove was first published in 1986, and became the vehicle for hundreds of school visits, at which Yoko spoke to thousands of children about being a mischievous child, about the value of being true to one's best self, and the importance of peace. She wrote per

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So Far from the Bamboo Grove

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So Far from the Bamboo Grove is an autobiography written by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, a Japanese American writer.^[1] It was originally published by Beech Tree in April 1986.

Watkins's book takes place in the last days of 35 years of Korea's annexation by Japan. An eleven-year-old Japanese girl, Yoko Kawashima, whose father works for the Japanese government, must leave her home in Nanam, part of northern Korea, as her family escapes south to Seoul, then to Busan, to return to Japan.

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The story begins with Yoko Kawashima (and her mother, brother and sister) living in Nanam. Yoko is 11 years old and living in North Korea during World War II while their father works as a Japanese government official in Manchuria, China. As the war draws towards a close, Yoko and her family realize the danger of their situation and attempts to escape back to Japan as communist troops close in on North Korea.

Her brother, Hideyo, also tries to leave but he is separated from his family because he has to