Cherry Parker, the first Japanese war bride to come to Australia, had to wait four years before she was allowed to come to Australia. War brides often faced hostility, distrust and racism.
Cherry Parker, the first Japanese war bride to come to Australia, married her husband, AIF serviceman Digger Gordon Parker, in Japan.
But it took four years, and the birth in Japan of the first two of their eight children before she was finally allowed to come to Australia.
