palestine,to paris, and hardin, china, then japan and then back to hardin china. andar became a world war japan allied with nazi germany, life was changing for the shapiro's, now reunited in japan. warith the outbreak of the came the classification of foreigners living in japan in two categories. allies, like the germans and italians, enemy aliens like americans, british, dutch, and ,ustralians, neutrals, soviets the swiss, and the sweetest, and finally, foreigners who had no nationality. withoutcalled nationality. those were the words we had to in when filling out forms which we had to indicate our citizenship. people did not all fall into one simple category. whitee known as the russians. while this term had no legal significance whatsoever, it indicated our national origin and the distinguished us from the soviets who were red russians, most of them diplomats who resided in japan. by the never referred to japanese authorities as jews. that was a distinction the japanese did not make. the only way of anti-semitism during the war came in a publication in japanese