Japan’s Foreign Ministry honors isle-based Nisei veterans groups

Japan’s Foreign Ministry honors isle-based Nisei veterans groups

Karen Kikukawa grew up not knowing much about her father’s service during World War II. “Every time I asked him, he would say ‘it’s a secret,’” she said. He was an American-born Japanese — a Nisei — who served in the U.S. Army. But unlike the veterans of the famous 442nd Regimental Combat Team, he had been sworn to secrecy. She eventually would learn that her father had served on Iwo Jima as an interpreter with the Military Intelligence Service …