Entrevistas

1. The Origin of my Name (Japanese)

2. Attending Kindergarten in Panama (Japanese)

3. My father who returned by prisoner of war exchange ship (Japanese)

4. Meeting Harry for the first time (Japanese)

5. On international marriages (Japanese)

6. Masao-san (Japanese)

7. Conflicted about immigrating to America (Japanese)

8. You can’t be loyal to two countries (Japanese)

9. Respecting the will of a five-year-old daughter (Japanese)

10. Why I’m glad I immigrated to America (Japanese)

Schneider,Jean Hamako

(n. 1925)A noiva de guerra

Respecting the will of a five-year-old daughter (Japanese)

(Japanese) It might have been when Nakako was around five. I was thinking I would do my best to teach her Japanese, but she told me not to. “What do you mean?” I asked her. “It’ll help you in the future. Just learn some Japanese. I’ll teach you,” I told her. She was only five years old, and even though she was so tiny, she told me, “I won’t say sorry I didn’t learn Japanese.” Then, “Please try not to teach me.” So, from that moment on, I didn’t teach her any Japanese.

Now, she complains to me about it. “Why didn’t you teach me?” she says. “You were the one who said, ‘Don’t teach me any Japanese,’ weren’t you?” I tell her back. And she answers, “But who takes such a small child’s opinion so seriously?”

Japonês línguas

Data: January 26, 2012

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: John Esaki, Yoko Nishimura

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Jean Hamako Schneider (née Amano) nasceu em 1925, em Yokohama. Em 1933, ela foi junto com seu pai, sr. Yoshitaro Amano, ao Panamá, onde ele tinha negócios. Após dois anos, a família retornou ao Japão, mas o sr.Yoshitaro permaneceu lá até 1942, quando retornou ao Japão no navio de troca de prisioneiros. Terminada a guerra, Hamako trabalhou numa emissora de rádio, quando conheceu Harry Schneider, membro do MIS (Serviço de Inteligência Militar) estacionado no Japão. Em 1948, casou-se com Harry no Japão e em 1950 chegou aos Estados Unidos como noiva de guerra. Nasceu-lhe uma filha e logo obteve cidadania americana. Mora atualmente em Encinitas, no estado da Califórnia. (Setembro de 2014)