Terry Janzen

(b. 1930) Half Japanese and grew up in both Japan and the United States.

Marriage during anti-miscegenation laws Tomboy Growing Up in Japan Memories of Poston Postwar school-life Father's Service in WWII Moving to Upland Post-Camp Arriving at Poston

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Terry Janzen was born in Tokyo, Japan on July 15, 1930. She is half Japanese and grew up in both Japan and the United States. She was incarcerated at Poston for 6 months during World War II. She has been a teacher and a Chair for the Adams County Democratic Party in Washington. (April 2013)

* Terry Janzen interviewed by Cindy Nakashima and Emily Anderson for the exhibition, Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History. A Collaboration with the USC Hapa Japan Database Project, videographer, Evan Kodani with support of NITTO Tires Life History Project.

anti-miscegenation laws hapa mixed marriages community post-war school family Japan mixed marriage arizona camps Poston World War II identity General MacArthur discrimination Upland