War Bride Hideko Here After Being Japanese Ban -- Sergeant John Anthony Brooman and his wife, Hideko, after disembarking from the Empire Fowey at Southampton to-day.Here at last is Hideko (it means 'Excellence'), the Japanese bride of 27-year-old Korean war veteran Sergeant John Anthony Brooman, Royal Signals, of Watford, Hertfordshire. They disembarked at Southampton to-day (Monday) from the transport Empire Fowey.Sergeant Brooman gave up his passage in the troopship Devanshire last July when Japanese officials prevented his wife from sailing in the ship on the grounds that she did not here the necessary exit documents. September 15, 1952. (Photo by Reuterphoto).