Wakatsuki biography

Jeanne Toyo Wakatsuki Houston was an American writer.
Jeanne Toyo Wakatsuki Houston (September 26, 1934 – December 21, 2024) was an American writer.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was born in Inglewood, California in 1934.

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Wakatsuki Reijirō

Prime Minister of Japan from 1926 to 1927 and in 1931

In this Japanese name, the surname is Wakatsuki.

BaronWakatsuki Reijirō (若槻禮次郎, 21 March 1866 – 20 November 1949) was a Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan.

Early life

Wakatsuki Reijirō was born on 21 March 1866, in Matsue, Izumo Province (present day Shimane Prefecture), the second son of samurai foot soldier (ashigaru) Okumura Sensaburō and his wife Kura. Though the family was of the samurai warrior nobility, they were very poor, and worked side jobs to support themselves. When Reijirō was three years old, his mother died. As the father and the eldest brother were ordered to work in Yamazaki, Kyoto by the Matsue Domain, the responsibilities of the house fell onto Reijirō's 11-year-old elder sister Iwa who took care of the three-year-old Reijirō while having a side job. The Okumura family were low-ranking even among the ashigaru, and the family could not have a residence near the center of Sakaimachi. For this reason, the family lived in a rented house on the outskirts of

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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1934–) Biography

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston contributed the following autobiographical essay to SATA:

Colors! Seeing the stages of my life as colors. Where did I get such an idea? I trace it back to 1956, when I was twenty-one years old working as a group counselor in a Northern California juvenile detention hall. It was my first full-time job. I was supervising teenage girls brought in for violating probation, running away from home, and sometimes more serious crimes But most often the offense was "incorrigibility.

Jessica T. (fictitious name) was a racial mix of Philippine, Samoan, and French. One of the "incorrigibles," she was brought to the hall for breaking probation or, more precisely, for getting into a fight. Jessica was well-known to the staff at Hillcrest. She was sixteen and, since the age of twelve when she was booked for running away from a foster home, had been a frequent visitor to the hall.

When I came on shift one afternoon, the other supervisors were chatting in the lounge about Jessica, lamenting her fate, which they believed would

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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is best known as co-author of the widely acclaimed book Farewell to Manzanar, written with husband James D. Houston and originally published in 1973. Based upon her personal experiences during and after her family’s imprisonment at Manzanar, the memoir was one of the first publications to discuss the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. She also co-wrote the screenplay for the NBC television adaptation, for which she received the Humanitas Prize and an Emmy Award nomination. The book, which is assigned reading in schools throughout the U.S., has sold over 1 million copies and is now in its 79th printing.

Houston is also the author of three other books, along with numerous essays, articles and reviews often focused on themes of ethnicity and diversity. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from San Jose State University and pursued graduate work at San Francis