A great-granddaughter followed the trailSourced
Japan's first female college graduate.
Her great-granddaughter wrote the biography.
Ōyama Sutematsu graduated from Vassar after studying in the United States in the 19th century. Her great-granddaughter Akiko Kuno later wrote Unexpected Destinations, drawing on a 1982 US research trip and about forty letters Ōyama had sent to her foster sister.
A family story was traced
across the Pacific.
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