by Rebecca Copeland | Nov 5, 2025 | Family
Prologue: Our last two posts have dealt with my sister, Joy, her childhood memories of Japan and her experiences attending elementary school on the Itazuke American Airforce Base. Now we shift to Joy’s early experiences with cerebral palsy. I am seven years younger... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Oct 22, 2025 | Family
Prologue: Joy Copeland Lineback spent the first seven years of her life primarily in Fukuoka, Japan. In an earlier post, she described a few of her memories. In this post, she tells us what it was like to go to school on an American airbase in Occupied Japan. Children... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Oct 8, 2025 | Family
Prologue Recently, I’ve posted interviews on this site with my sister, Beth Copeland. I’m fortunate to have three older sisters! I decided I would share more about my other sisters. Next, I’ll give Joy Copeland Lineback her turn. When I was growing up, Joy was the... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Oct 25, 2023 | Japanese Culture
It happens every time I introduce students to the ill-fated 9th-century exile, Sugawara no Michizane. In the midst of describing the wrongs he incurred, his heart-broken ox, and the flying plum tree, I nearly burst out laughing. It’s not that I relish Michizane’s... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Oct 11, 2023 | Japanese Culture
“Watch, he’s going to salt his hams!” my father called out to me. He had the sumo match on the TV in our Fukuoka living room. It was November 1976. We’d been in the house on Torikai for several months now. Occasionally we’d watch reruns of “Bonanza” together. It was...
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