I recently asked my father about what was going through his mind when he accepted his first international assignment to Tokyo in 1984. He said, “Honestly, your mom and I just wanted to travel. We wanted to go on adventures. And we knew that you and your sister would adapt to the traveling because we had seen you adapt before.” There was actually not a ton of discussion. They both said the decision to move to Japan was made quickly and easily. My father grew up in a homogenous community in Brooklyn where all of his friends were first-generation American,…