TY - JOUR AU - Sato, Yumiko PY - 2010/09/08 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Shadows of WWII JF - Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy JA - Voices VL - 10 IS - 1 SE - Stories DO - 10.15845/voices.v10i1.157 UR - https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/1854 SP - AB - <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ">On my initial visit with Shen I discovered that he grew up in </span><span style="font-family: ">China</span><span style="font-family: "> under the Japanese occupation during WWII.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>How would my nationality affect our therapeutic relationship? As a Japanese music therapist working at hospice in </span><span style="font-family: ">America</span><span style="font-family: "> the shadow of WWII is something I can not avoid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Neither can my patients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>For those who lived through the war meeting someone from </span><span style="font-family: ">Japan</span><span style="font-family: "> </span><span style="font-family: ">could bring </span><span style="font-family: ">back </span><span style="font-family: ">powerful emotions, especially when they’re facing their final journeys.</span><span style="font-family: "> </span><span style="font-family: ">This is a story of p</span><span style="font-family: ">atients</span><span style="font-family: "> for whom both music and my </span><span style="font-family: ">nationality</span><span style="font-family: "> opened the door to unexpected experiences.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: ">All identifying information has been changed to protect people’s confidentiality.</span></em></p> ER -