A clipping from the Daily Inter Lake shows a photograph of several Japanese war brides gathered around Aya Masuoka, who mentored the young women as they established their lives in the Flathead Valley.
September 17, 2017
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September 17, 2017 1:53 p.m.
Japanese war brides project taps into Flathead stories
A quest to tell the story of Japanese war brides who married American soldiers and assimilated into life in the United States in the years following World War II brought journalist Kathryn Tolbert to small towns across the country, including the Kalispell and Trego areas.