Nancy Singleton Hachisu

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Unpacking Japan · Demystifying Japanese home cooking · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

We went into the to the education office, um, connected to the to the Kamikawa schools and

And and I really, you know, tried to explain.

Sincerely, why?

And I said, Look at my kids are are are

you know, Christopher at the time, he was it was just about to be school age.

I said, you know, by then I think we had another we had Andrew and possibly Matthew was coming, but I

I said they're they're half Japanese and half American.

I don't wanna be I want them to be fully, fully Japanese.

And they can only be fully Japanese, deeply Japanese if they are

spending time with my husband learning in a not I mean in a deeply intuitive way.

of what it's like to be a Japanese country boy, you know?

I mean they were spending their days in Gita and Hanten and they were just like, you know, they were they know more my kids know more about being Japanese than adult Japanese, frankly.

You know, so then the the the the school the education office person said,

Oh, but we have lots of teachers and they read books and they can all tell him them teach them these customs like, oh my God, now this is really ridiculous.

Okay, that was the end of the conversation.

I just sat there and

Mm-hmm.

Okay, thank you very much.

Bye.

You know, and I never tried again.

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