A Child of Two Empires in an Age of Nuclear War
Mariko Terasaki Miller, the first woman appointed Honorary Consul-General of Japan, reflects on growing up "a child of two empires" in an age of...
Seared by her observations of poverty, hunger, and brutality as a child in China, and the realities of war in Japan, Mrs. Miller became a political activist while raising her four sons in Wyoming. She served on the steering committee of the National Women’s Political Caucus, the board of Americans for Democratic Action, the Wyoming Commission for Civil Rights, and the Wyoming Commission for Women, and in 1976, was elected to the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee.
She has embarked on numerous speaking tours of Japan over the past 17 years, some of which were sponsored jointly by the American Embassy and the Japanese Foreign Ministry. In April of 1996, the Foreign Ministry invited her to Japan to speak at a luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto in honor of President and Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Mariko Terasaki Miller, the first woman appointed Honorary Consul-General of Japan, reflects on growing up "a child of two empires" in an age of...