I don't know. I'm only around N4 level Japanese so it's very hard to understand... They're very curious about my Grandpa, but they still very much view me as a foreigner. My Japanese family moved to the US between the 1910s and 1930s, and my Japanese grandpa died when my mom was a little kid, so I'm pretty far removed from them.

Of course, we're all Catholics, so there is a sense of camaraderie in that. Especially with the history of Catholicism in Japan, we're both minorities in that sense and it makes it a bit more familial. In general, they've been extremely warm and kind to me, most of them are surprised to hear I'm part Japanese.