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No more close family in Japan (Spanish)

(Spanish) I went to Japan. At first there wasn’t anyone that I knew. Because my uncle, my aunt, my mother, who all were acquainted with my childhood -- I am now eighty-one years old -- they are all dead. Their children, my cousins, have their own families and they treated me well. But when I left Japan to come to Argentina they were still babies. There are no common memories; they treated me well but there wasn’t much to talk about, it is a little sad, don’t you think?


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Date: February 23, 2007

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Interviewer: Takeshi Nishimura, Ricardo Hokama

Contributed by: Centro Nikkei Argentino

Interviewee Bio

Takagi Kazuomi was born in Japan on March 27, 1925, in the Mie province. He arrived in Argentina as a tourist and never returned to Japan. By chance he started out in journalism, a profession that provided employment for more than fifty years on radio and in the graphic arts. Today, at eighty-one years old, he continues to fervently work as a journalist for the newspaper of the Japanese collectivity, La Plata Hochi (Japanese Section), including acting stints in various forms of publicity. He passed away on November 10, 2014 at age 89. (January 2021)

Sakata,Reiko T.

Parent’s Marriage

(b. 1939) a businesswoman whose family volunterily moved to Salt Lake City in Utah during the war.