Entrevistas

1. Life in Davao, Philippines

2. Kindergarten in Davao, Philippines

3. Evacuated to the Jungle

4. Captured by Guerillas after bombing of Pearl Harbor

5. Family was shipped back to Japan after the war

6. Attitudes toward Hikiagesha

7. Move to Los Angeles

8. First Impressions of the US

9. Life in the Philippines

10. Unique Identity from Having Multiple Backgrounds

11. On Nikkei Identity

12. Returning to the Philippines

Uchimura,Sawako Ashizawa

(n.1938) Repatriada filipina de nacimiento que luego emigró a los Estados Unidos

Life in the Philippines

The community of nearly 2,000 people – by the – the Pacific War started, I think many return to Japan, but still, quite a few numbers were there. And there were baseball group, judo group, small group, kendo, odori, and there were festivals – obon festivals, and parade. There’s a – a movie theater, a – a lot shops, a lot was going on.

Civilians were welcomed, but when the war became very difficult, I think that there were a lot of incidences that were negative, being, you know, like natives were attacked as well as civilian Japanese who were attacked and forced to do something they didn’t want to do, like giving up the food, and they – at the end, they did not have a good feeling toward – but during the time we left, I think the relationship was good.

comunidades Filipinas Segunda Guerra Mundial

Fecha: July 12, 2017

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: Mitsue Watanabe, Yoko Nishimura, Leighton Okada

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Sawako Ashizawa Uchimura nació en Davao, Mindanao, en Filipinas, el 25 de marzo de 1938 como hija primogénita de Katsujiro y Ura “Mie” Ashizawa. Tenía siete años de edad en 1945 cuando su familia tuvo que dejar las Filipinas después de la derrota de Japón en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Su familia vivió en Shizuoka durante los siguientes diez años. Más tarde, la familia obtuvo el permiso de residencia estadounidense y arribó a Los Ángeles en marzo de 1956. Sawako estudió en la Escuela Secundaria de Alhambra y luego en el Colegio Municipal de Pasadena. Eventualmente encontró a un generoso mentor quien la apoyó en su educación mientras estuvo en la Universidad Estatal de San José y se convirtió en terapista profesional. Actualmente, ella sirve como voluntaria en el Sakura Garden (anteriormente la Casa de Retiro Keiro). (Marzo, 2018)