Interviews

1. Four sisters had international marriages (Japanese)

2. Disrespectful Child (Japanese)

3. Discrimination faced in San Francisco (Japanese)

4. Missing Home (Japanese)

5. The Kids and Japanese Language (Japanese)

6. Regret (Japanese)

7. How she met her husband (Japanese)

8. Public views on marriage with non-Caucasian (Japanese)

Calloway,Terumi Hisamatsu

(b. 1937) A war bride from Yokohama

Disrespectful Child (Japanese)

(Japanese) I was very aware that it wasn’t good to go with foreigners or Americans. “Not good” based on the consideration of the world’s perception. In my mind, there was nothing wrong to date anyone, no matter what country he was from. Perhaps that’s why I ended up marrying my husband. I feel bad for my parents. I’m sure my sisters feel like they made our parents unhappy. Everybody feels like that even though we shouldn’t. But in those days, if you think about what people might have thought, I think it was not a dutiful thing to do to my parents.

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Date: February 6, 2015

Location: California, US

Interviewer: Izumi Tanaka

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

Interviewee Bio

Terumi Hisamatsu Calloway was born in 1937 in Yokohama as the 5th of 10 children and grew up in the suburb of Tokyo during the war. She met her husband, Edward E. Calloway, who was a civilian engineer working at American military base in Tokyo and married him. In 1960, after having 2 children, Terumi moved to the U.S. with her family and settled in the Bay Area and had two more children. Later they moved to the Lompoc area where all of her 4 children - 2 girls and 2 boys - grew up. In 1977, they moved to Inglewood where she resides now. Terumi was widowed in 2009, and she currently works as a caregiver. (April 2016)