“I already had 10 grandchildren when Tatay, Sasaki, came to the Philippines to marry me in 1995,” Anita Aquino Sasaki said, as she started narrating her migration story.

That story began ten years prior, when she went to Yokosuka Naval Base, in Kanagawa, Japan, where her brother’s brothers-in-law were stationed, to sell clothes and jewelry to Filipinas working or residing there. Anita is familiar with the life of military servicemen stationed in places faraway from home, as her father, an Ilocano Army Major from Pangasinan, was stationed in Cotabato in WWII. “I can also speak Ilocano as both my parents did,” she said.

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