Atsuko Okatsuka
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Oh, God.
So it's like, I'm leaving.
Okay, go ahead now.
Like, you know, and then when you come home, you say, I'm home.
And then they say, which means welcome home.
Yeah.
And so the first time I toured Japan, just like two years, two years ago, you know, I didn't know.
It's just like thousands of people.
know who I am.
Locals, you know, right?
So locals.
And I always felt like I was kind of ripped away from Japan.
I didn't get to say goodbye to my dad or my friends.
I didn't know I was moving, you know.
And then I had to give up my Japanese passport when I became a U.S.
citizen.
On Japan's side.
Yeah, I didn't know that.
Yeah.
So I just felt like layers of my Japanese identity was being ripped away.