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...