His experiences in Chicago after WWII

Difference between experiences of youth and older people in WWII camps His experiences in Chicago after WWII Finding a way to keep donor kidneys longer in order to ship to matched patients Creating a registry to study the outcome of transplants Using tissue typing and blood tests to determine paternity Developing the tray used in determining HLA types for tissue typing The HLA and transplantation history books Developing the micro test was the most important accomplishment Continuing to work to improve transplanting success

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I don’t recall any real discrimination. So, Chicago was pretty good in that sense. And at school, I didn’t sense anything. There were a fair number of Japanese in the school. I’m not exactly sure why, but when the Japanese went to Chicago, they tended to cluster to just maybe for some kind of a feeling of ease that they went together. So, at this high school, there were a fair number of Japanese also.

Date: February 10, 2004
Location: California, US
Interviewer: Gwenn M. Jensen
Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum.

chicago discrimination Post-World War II