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Chapter 9 Masae & Jo Morisue
Can you imagine a lady over the age of 90 who goes dancing every week, sings and dances in theatrical performances, sews, and drives a car she gave herself as a 90th birthday present? There is one who lives in Sharon named Masae Morisue. Her story starts in Reno, Nevada, where a man named Mojuro Shijo had a laundry business. Like other Japanese men who emigrated to this country during the late 19th or early 20th century, he could not find a wife here. He selected a “picture bride” – one of the thousands of Japanese women whose marriages were arranged based on the exchange of photographs. They gave birth to their first child, Masae, on November 12, 1912. . . .
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