Joyce Ikuko Moriwaki was born in 1942 and was three years old when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She describes her family life, including her parents' divorce when she was in fifth grade and going to live with her grandmother, and then going to live with her mother after her father died. She talks about the thyroid problems she's had in her life and recalls being forced to eat seaweed as a child to help her thyroid. She talks about her mother's health problems, possibly related to the bombing, ultimately leading to her death. She describes coming to Hawaii when she was 19 years old with her husband, who was born in Hawaii but had come to Hiroshima to stay with relatives and had also been in the bombing. She recalls an upsetting incident in Hawaii in which she was called a racial slur on December 7. She talks about her husband's negative feelings toward Japan after the war. She talks about her life in Hawaii, including the problems she's had with her son, becoming a citizen, and the various jobs she's had, including working at a hotel for 31 years.
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