Jimmie and Katie uncovered an incredible WW2 story about their family history. Now, you can make your own post-WW2 discoveries on Ancestry with the newly released 1950 U.S. census, start searching today:

I would have gone a step farther and gone back to Japan to find out where their great grandparents were originally from. I did, and it was one of the high points of my life. My grandmother only went back to Japan once, and when she did, she brought back the trunk that she took when she immigrated to Hawaii. It had her name written on it in white paint. Like all immigrants, she left Chiba Prefecture to escape poverty. Japan has an ancestry register system called a "koseki" and Jimmie and Katie can find out more about their roots.

This was a great story The camps the American Japanese were sent to were a disgrace. I’m glad they were able to see the information on their ancestors.

I (a Japanese living in Japan) have never heard of Hoshiko as a family name. So I checked up the list of all Japanese family names.

I'm half Japanese and half European American. I am very happy and proud to be who I am. I don't blame anybody or any situation for what happen in the past. History is hard for a lot of people including European immigrants in this country.

During the 1800s and early 1900s, records can be easily falsified depending on where you are in the world. It took me many years to find out my actual heritage since many DNA testing companies don't do deep dive analysis and can sometimes be biased based on your birth country and what ethnicity your parents identify as. I found out that according to photo evidence and accounts written in books published between 1902 and 1987 that my great-grandmother was half-Japanese and half-Mongolian based in Xinjiang, China. Her parents met in Tokyo between 1906-1908 and her father brought her mother back to Xinjiang but changed her nationality on record as Mongolian from a different tribe to avoid discrimination during the Sino-Japanese war. Eventually either she or her family had faked her death and changed her identity so that she can move around China and eventually ended up in Malaysia in the late 50s under a Chinese name.

I wish it had been included whether their great grandparents’ friend actually returned the farm or not. It should be more widely known how few were returned.

This was wonderful. And it also made me cry. Really pulled at my hartstrings.

They are just handsome siblings tho, and I really love the history between their relatives that lived in Japan and their great grandparents who went through a lot during ww1 and stuff R.I.P sadly :(

This is one of the most beautiful parks I've ever been in

From generation to generation, a lineage shall never be forgotten and identified for the efforts and determination.

This was so powerful, and so beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with the world.

This absolutely emotional so beautiful thank you for sharing your story

Beautiful, My mom is from Fresno and dad from Finland It's nice to see what kinds of people were living there in fresno's community at the time. Also lovely story very sentimental.

Even tough guys get teary. 😢

Kristy has always had a special place in my heart as a figure skater and now through my interactions with the Japanese community in my life.

He died 13 days after she did. Sad, but befitting of two people who spent so much time together.

That ceremony was just beautiful.

Those have to be the most japanese looking half whites I've ever seen and I'm mixed Japanese myself.

I would love to do this and learn about my families history more. Japanese gardens are so beautiful