A Similar Story Happened to my Parents
My mother, a Japanese National met my dad, a Japanese-American Sergeant attached to the US Eighth Army occupying Japan in 1946. As an American serviceman, he was forbidden to marry my mother under General McArthur's edict. Instead of committing suicide like Katsumi and Joe Kelly, my dad had an Army Chaplin marry them illegally. Initially the Chaplin refused, but my dad asked him, "Who is your real boss? God or McArthur?" The Chaplin married them and after the law was recinded, they remarried legally in Los Angeles.
Ironically, Miyoshi Umeki is my mother's first cousin and my cousin once removed.
Not surprisingly, this is my widowed mother's favorite movie.