Gloria Fuji Mangao could not stop crying when her father told her to take good care of her mother and get along with her siblings. It was the last time she saw him before he was deported to Japan soon after the end of World War II.
Mangao's father, Hino Fuji, was a Japanese who moved to the Philippines before the war, working as a carpenter and living a peaceful and relatively affluent life with his Filipino wife and seven children, including Mangao.
"I often played games with my father at home," Mangao, 76, recalled with a smile during a recent interview in Tokyo.