Atsuko Okatsuka
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What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
You know, it's like that.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
That's the energy.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
Very tragic, yeah.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
So I was actually born in Taiwan.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
I'm half Taiwanese.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
Ah, yes.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
I know.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
That's why it's good we're at this table.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
Yeah, yeah.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
So my grandma's side, my mom's side is Taiwanese.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
And so I was born there because, so my dad's Japanese.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
And, you know, my mom and dad had met at a speed dating event in Japan.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
No way.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
But once they, you know, they courted each other and then they got married very fast.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
No.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
Oh, wait, hold on.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
That was too fast.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
Let's go back to our respective countries and take it slow.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
No, she was like, I'm going to move here.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Atsuko Okatsuka: Can You Ever Really Go Home Again?
And so once she got pregnant with me, she went back to Taiwan to give birth because her brother, my uncle, was studying to be an OBGYN.