Beginning Quote by Tom Stoppard

My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.

— Michiko Kakutani

While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.

— Kygo

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

— Barney Ross

I was born in Singapore, but I left at four so memories are hazy.

— Fiona Bruce

Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

— Tammy Duckworth

I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came…

— Tammy Duckworth

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a…

— Hong Chau

I was born on the island of Singapore, and I grew up there until I was 11 years old, when I was forcibly removed…

— Kevin Kwan

My grandmother lived under Japanese colonial rule until she was nine. Korea, still united and whole, was colonized in 1910. During this period of…

— Crystal Hana Kim

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with…

— Muhtar Kent

I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF…

— Terry Jones

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church…

— Sigourney Weaver