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Announcement DC5m United States japan in english 4 articles, created at 2016-11-26 12:09 articles set mostly neutral rate 0.0 1 0.0 S. Korea lawmakers ready to oust president who refuses to resign TOKYO — South Korean lawmakers look set to impeach President Park Geun-hye as (1.02/2) soon as next week, with 40 representatives from her own party saying Friday they would support the proceedings. ... 2016-11-26 01:43 766Bytes article.wn.com 2 4.0 Duhamel, Radford win pairs event at NHK Trophy SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — Two-time world champions Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada won the pairs event at the NHK Trophy on Saturday to secure a berth in the figure skating Grand Prix Final.… 2016-11-26 05:12 2KB wtop.com 3 0.0 Woman in Japan reclaims dad, U. S. identity in 6- decade journey At a public bath in a Yokohama slum in the 1950s, a red-haired girl scrubs her skin with a pumice stone, hard, to try to get the white out... 2016-11-26 04:02 13KB lasvegassun.com 4 0.9 Red-haired Japanese woman discovers she is the daughter of American soldier Marianne Wilson Kuroda, now 67, grew up in a one-roomed shack in the city of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, and was teased as a child for her fair skin and unusual hair. 2016-11-26 00:48 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk Articles DC5m United States japan in english 4 articles, created at 2016-11-26 12:09 1 /4 0.0 S. Korea lawmakers ready to oust president who refuses to resign (1.02/2) TOKYO — South Korean lawmakers look set to impeach President Park Geun-hye as soon as next week, with 40 representatives from her own party saying Friday they would support the proceedings. ... Thousands rally to demand S. Korea president's ouster digitaljournal.com 2016-11-26 01:43 system article.wn.com 2 /4 4.0 Duhamel, Radford win pairs event at NHK Trophy SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — Two-time world champions Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada won the pairs event at the NHK Trophy on Saturday to secure a berth in the figure skating Grand Prix Final. Duhamel and Radford, who were in second place after Friday’s short program, finished with a combined total of 205.56 points to add to their win at Skate Canada. “As with the short program, there were some strong elements and some unfortunate mistakes,” Radford said. “My body got tight and tired at the end of the program and I just had a slight problem with that last lift.” The GP Final will be held in Marseille, France, from Dec. 8-11. “It’s a quick turnaround to the GP Final,” Radford said. “So we can’t change much but we want to have two cleaner skates in Marseille. With all the top skaters there, we will need to skate closer to our best.” Peng Cheng and Yang Jin of China were second with 196.87 points, and Wang Xuehan and Wang Lei, also of China, were third with 185.32. Peng and Yang also qualified for the GP Final with their second-placed finish. The other pairs to qualify for the final are: Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany; Xiaoyu Yu and Hao Zhang of China; Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov of Russia; and Julianne Seguin and Charlie Bilodeau of Canada. The NHK Trophy is the sixth and final event in the International Skating Union’s Grand Prix series. The men’s and women’s free skate events also take place on Saturday. comments This holiday season, visitors will have the chance to see dozens of National Parks, monuments and historic places re-imagined. 2016-11-26 05:12 The Associated wtop.com 3 /4 0.0 Woman in Japan reclaims dad, U. S. identity in 6-decade journey Eugene Hoshiko / AP In this Sept. 9, 2016 photo, Marianne Wilson Kuroda holds a photo of her father James Vaughn and her mother Vivienne Wilson from late 1940’s as she speaks during an interview at her home in Kashiwa, east of Tokyo. Red-haired girl Marianne in a Japanese slum knew she was different, but she didn’t know why; six decades later, she finally put the last piece of her shattered identity into place. By Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016 | 12:02 a.m. KASHIWA, Japan — At a public bath in a Yokohama slum in the 1950s, a red-haired girl scrubs her skin with a pumice stone, hard, to try to get the white out. Other kids sometimes taunt her. "American, American. " She yells back, "I'm Japanese! " There are more hints that she is different. Once a year she's taken to a grave in the cemetery for foreigners. Once she is made to listen to a record of people singing "Happy Birthday" in English. The reasons are as unknown to her as the Western-looking couple she sees in photos hidden in a brown leather suitcase in the closet. She is told she was abandoned. Only much later would she learn that her family had been a casualty of anti-Asian immigration policy in the United States. Her American father got Congress to pass a special bill that would have allowed her to enter the U. S., yet she would go most of her life without knowing that. Her life became headline fodder in two countries — Japan and Sweden — as a custody battle waged, yet she would be the one to sort out her own fractured identity. It took decades, and the last piece was put into place only this year. "So many coincidences happened in my life," she said in an interview at her house outside Tokyo, reflecting on her 67 years. "But altogether, you know, I managed to put the whole story, that now I'm settled, and I have peace of mind. Thank goodness that I don't have to live with two people anymore. " Those two people are Mary Ann Vaughn, the girl she was born as, and Marianne Wilson, the girl that fate made her. THE MARY ANN YEARS Texas-born James Vaughn arrived in Japan in early 1946, a 20-year-old civilian assigned to a U. S. military base in Yokohama. Photos show a handsome lad with a bit of a James Dean look. He met 16-year-old Vivienne Wilson working in the PX to help support her family. It was an ill- fated romance. Overseas U. S. personnel needed permission from the military to get married, and Vaughn was denied because Wilson was half-Japanese. U. S. law at the time barred Japanese from becoming citizens or even immigrating to the country. Vaughn and Wilson didn't give up. They tied the knot at a Japanese shrine in May 1948. But U. S. military police harassed the couple, and Vaughn returned to the U. S. that August. Wilson gave birth to Mary Ann Vaughn in a Yokohama hospital on April 17, 1949. James Vaughn wrote to Congress, which passed a law exempting Wilson from immigration restrictions so she and her daughter could enter the U. S. It was dated Aug. 5, 1950. That very day Vivienne Wilson died of tuberculosis. Mary Ann was 16 months old. Wilson's family was struggling financially, and asked Mary Ann's nanny to take care of the baby until her father returned to get her. He never did. And so Mary Ann ended up trying to peel her whiteness off in a public bath. "I was wondering what kind of disease I had," she said. She hoped she would wake up transformed, her red hair gone to black. She became Mary Ann Kizawa, taking the surname of her nanny's first husband. She called him "Papa. " They lived in a one-room shack in Yokohama, got water from a shared pump and cooked outside. The young girl didn't know she was American — she was taught to be terrified of Americans. She wasn't sure who or what they were, but would jump into a covered wooden tea crate whenever they came to the neighborhood. They will make you into sausage and eat you, she was told. Ultimately, an organization set up to help "GI babies," orphans left behind by American soldiers, found her. In letters to the Swedish consul in Tokyo in 1955, the group reported that Mary Ann's nanny wanted to adopt her, but questioned whether that was advisable, given her impoverished circumstances. Sweden decided it should find a home for her, and a custody battle ensued. The media descended on the first-grader. Magazine photo spreads from 1956 show a smiling, pig-tailed girl at school or eating at home. Behind the sometimes impish smiles was a child who didn't understand what was happening to her. Her nanny, Fumi, took Mary Ann every Aug. 5 to Vivienne's grave in a mosquito-infested cemetery, without telling her it was her mother. The child couldn't read the English on the tombstone. Fumi once took her to the beauty parlor where she worked, so she could use the record player. Mary Ann listened to a recording of "Happy Birthday" and "Mary had a Little Lamb" without realizing it was her father and his family in America singing. The nanny did lay out what was happening after a court ruled in Sweden's favor in 1958. "I'm going to tell you something very important," she told her.