My guest today is Mieko Zukerman.
She was born and grew up in a very traditional family in Tokyo, Japan, in the fifties. She did a degree in music at a music college in Tokyo, followed by a diploma in Japanese as a foreign language.
Mieko's career started as a teacher of Japanese language, piano and swimming, in Tokyo. After some years, she met the love of her life, an Englishman, she got married, had two children, a daughter, and a son and when the children were 13 and nine years old, they moved to England in 1996.
Mieko joins me to talk about her childhood, about her family's traditional ways, about her move to the UK and how she and the family adjusted to the British culture, about what Japan means to her and her children.
Finally we discuss lessons that she has learnt and that she would like to pass on to people who move away from the country of their birth to settle and live in another country.
Mieko is such a lovely, kind person. It is such a privilege to have her as their Japanese teacher.
Enjoy listening!
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If you would like to talk to me about your two worlds, I would love to hear from you. Please feel free to contact me. My address is hello@twoworlds.oneme.cafe
Music thanks to John Bartmann