September 8, 2006

Immigration: How 'They' Become 'Us'

By HIROSHI MOTOMURA

My family came to America in 1957, when I was 3 years old. We lived in an apartment on Bush Street in San Francisco, a 10-minute walk from the traditional Japantown first settled by Japanese immigrants a half-century before us. The 1950s were a time when not many immigrants came to America, at least as compared with today. My family arrived long after the early waves of Asian and European immigrants around the turn of the 20th century. We arrived before the resurgence of immigration that

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