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FusaeKashiwada
I was adopted from the Elizabeth Saunders Home in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 1960. It was an orphanage founded by Mitsubishi heiress, Mrs. Miki Sawada, in 1948 and dedicated to the care of bi-racial orphans, whose birth parents were American service members and Japanese mothers. Since then it opened up to other orphans. I was born in 1956 as Fusae Kashiwada at Oaza Kamiyamada, Yamadashi, Fukuoka-Ken, Japan. My family register at the time I was adopted indicates my birth father’s name was Shiro Kashiwada and my birth mother Kiyo Kashiwada. According to a letter and photograph sent by my birth father to my adoptive parents, I had two older brothers who stayed with my father. Nothing is known of my birth mother. In the letter he said how sorry or sad he was to have given me up for adoption. I had always believed that I was given up for adoption because I was a girl, and not having as much value as my brothers, who were kept. I have so many questions as to the circumstances but I also want my birth father, if still alive, that I hold no bitterness, but instead, so very grateful that he gave me a better chance at life than he would have been able to give me.