Kasumi Yamashita is a nisei studying at Hitotsubashi University in suburban Tokyo on a yearlong research grant.
The 30-year-old Harvard University graduate said she aspires to teach anthropology at a university in the U.S. or Japan after completing her research on Japanese-Brazilians during World War II.
It was thus no surprise to find Yamashita among a group of some 30 students, teachers, counselors and local residents who recently attended an international exchange seminar by Satsuki Ina, a sansei, at Hitotsubashi's Sano Shoin Hall.