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Baytown Photographer Discovers Japanese Roots on Tokyo Visit
Bill Ashley a Baytown photographer and UH writer editor learned he is half Japanese after a journey to Japan with friends Wayne and Becky Guest. They traced his adoption from Kobe Cottage near Yokohama and found his birth name George Hayashi, discovering his mother was Japanese.
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Baytown
Japan
Bill Ashley
IT Communications
University of Houston
Information Technology
U.S
Kobe Cottage
Jesus
Ashley
Amy
Donna
Second Baptist
U.S. Steel
University
Ashleys
Wayne
Becky Guest
Wayne Guest
Exxon Mobil Development Corporation
Guest
California
Bill
Tokyo
Yokohama
Kobe
Tucker
Tokyo Harbor
Becky
Texas
Kobo Cottage
George Hayashi
Hayashi
George