The tumultuous life of Shiho Sakanishi, a Japanese woman who came to the United States nearly 100 years ago and whose trailblazing efforts helped bring the two countries together, should serve as an example for people in Japan today, especially the younger generations.At a time when it was much harder for people in Japan to go abroad, let alone land a job in a foreign government, Sakanishi arrived in California in the 1920s when she was in her 20s, earned her doctorate in Michigan and worked as chief of the Japan section at the Library of Congress in Washington before World War II."It was a…READ FULL ARTICLE
