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Yoshitaro Amano’s Tuna Fishing Boat (Japanese)

(Japanese) This was not the ship that broke in two when Amano was riding it; this was his fishing boat. It was a boat he built and used to fish tuna in the seas of…not Panama…Costa Rica. They say that the one who taught the people of Costa Rica to eat tuna was Amano.

Apparently, they are a people who didn’t eat fish. After that, Costa Rica wasn’t enough; he came to Ecuador to fish for tuna, too. Sometimes, he would go into areas for which he did not have permission. When he did that, he said he would escape. He said it was a really good boat at that time. He made two of those boats, the Shimizu Maru, in Japan. His story is right over there. His son wrote it. Yep. So if a police vehicle ever called out a notification to him, he would escape just like that and go back, he said.


business economics management Yoshitaro Amano

Date: April 18, 2007

Location: Lima, Peru

Interviewer: Ann Kaneko

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

Interviewee Bio

Miyoko Amano (nee: Watanabe) is a Nikkei Nisei born in Lima, Peru. In 1954, she married Yoshitaro Amano, a businessman and a researcher of the Andes Civilization. Taking over the vision of her late husband, she is currently the President of Amano Museum—established from the Yoshitaro’s private collection of artifacts—renowned for its extensive research into the Cancay Culture. (October 2009)

Sakane,Hiroshi

Yoshitaro Amano chose the Chancay culture (Japanese)

(b. 1948) Executive Director of Amano Museum

Sakane,Hiroshi

The find of the century: Chicras (Japanese)

(b. 1948) Executive Director of Amano Museum

Oda,Harunori

Getting started in America

(1927-2016) Shin-Issei businessman

Oda,Harunori

Learning the nursery business

(1927-2016) Shin-Issei businessman

Oda,Harunori

Gardening to nursery

(1927-2016) Shin-Issei businessman

Oda,Harunori

Expanding business

(1927-2016) Shin-Issei businessman

Oda,Harunori

Next phase

(1927-2016) Shin-Issei businessman

Oda,Harunori

Life Philosophy

(1927-2016) Shin-Issei businessman

Schneider,Jean Hamako

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

(b. 1925) War bride

Fukuhara,Jimmy Ko

Family nursery business

(b. 1921) Nisei veteran who served in the occupation of Japan

Fukuhara,Jimmy Ko

After being discharged and returning to the nursery business

(b. 1921) Nisei veteran who served in the occupation of Japan

Ohtomo,Hachiro

Business in Missouri (Japanese)

(b. 1936) Shin-issei welding business owner

Shikota,Antonio Shinkiti

3.11 Earthquake stopped his business in Sendai and Fukushima (Portuguese)

(b. 1962) Japanese Brazilian owner of a Brazilian products store in Japan.

Shikota,Antonio Shinkiti

Transition from a factory worker to starting his own business (Portuguese)

(b. 1962) Japanese Brazilian owner of a Brazilian products store in Japan.

Fujioka,Robert T.

Great grandparents' hotel business in Hawaii

(b. 1952) Former banking executive, born in Hawaii