Interviews

1. Memories of the Japanese Hospital (English/Japanese)

2. The Closing of the Japanese Hospital (English / Japanese)

3. The Secret to Youth (Japanese)

4. The Father who started the Rafu Shimpo (Japanese)

Inose,Yoshiko

(b.1908) Daugther of the first publisher of the Rafu Shimpo

The Closing of the Japanese Hospital (English / Japanese)

(English/Japanese) Inose Inosuke and wife went back to Japan in 1935 after the hospital was closed. That was really sad. Up until then, the lights had been on and everything was bright, but one day it suddenly became dark. It was a very unpleasant feeling. It felt lonely.

Date: February 3, 2010

Location: California, US

Interviewer: Eiko Masuyama, Carole Fujita, Yoko Nishimura

Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Interviewee Bio

Mrs. Yoshiko Inose (nee Shibuya) was born in Los Angeles, California in 1908. Her father, Seijiro Shibuya, was the first publisher of The Rafu Shimpo. In the early 1930s, Yoshiko married Seijiro Inose, the adopted son of Inosuke Inose. Yoshiko’s father-in-law Inosuke was the president of the first Japanese Hospital, near Little Tokyo called Nanka Nihon Byoin or Southern California Japanese Hospital, located on Amelia and Turner Streets. (April 11, 2010)