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42. I understand

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My brother's wife is from Japan, but living in Northern Virginia, she had an easier time of it going back to see her family.

She was only really close to her mom anyway, and her mom got bad Alzheimer's and had to be institutionalized, and passed away a while ago. My sis-in-law, as a woman in Japan, was doomed (back in 1981, when she left for Washington) to rise no higher than bank teller when she left. Within 5 years of moving to Washington, she was vice-director for the World Bank, and was in charge of the Asia desk. The then-director, James Wolfensohn, later started having some kind of little affair with someone, and wanted to replace my sis-in-law with her, and so they offered her an outrageous severance package, which she took instead of being unceremoniously fired. It included business class travel back to Japan twice a year from Washington for ten years or longer (I forget). There were already nonstops from Dulles to Narita, but she was allowed to choose routes that included stopovers in Hawai'i if she wanted. The World Bank REALLY wanted to keep her happy, and she made sure they did.