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His family's migration to Salinas, California
Tom Yuki March 22, 2018
My grandfather came over from Japan in the 1890s. He was the third son of …
His Shin-Issei parents
Kishi Bashi August 21, 2018
They met in Seattle, as students, University of Washington. My dad’s from Mie-ken, Mia Prefecture, …
General reasons why people left Japan for Peru
Michelle Yamashiro August 30, 2018
I don’t know what the attraction of Peru was versus the United States, but I …
Great grandfather Asato was a sumo wrestler
Michelle Yamashiro August 30, 2018
He came to Peru because there was…there was competition, great competition between sumo wrestlers in …
Grandfather loved to tell her stories of her great-grandfather Arakaki
Michelle Yamashiro August 30, 2018
So he told me my grandma Arakaki’s side, that’s the grandpa that was college educated, …
Parents leaving Peru to move to California
Michelle Yamashiro August 30, 2018
In the eighties Peru’s economy wasn’t as great as it is now. And so in …
Her mother came to the U.S. with a group of picture brides
Mitsuye Yamada August 7, 2018
I remember her telling us a story about how she was on this ship – …
Her father bought her mother American clothes after she arrived from Japan
Mitsuye Yamada August 7, 2018
And so she arrived in Seattle. So I said, “What was the first thing that …
Grandfather migrating to Colombia
Monica Teisher September 22, 2019
They came to Corinto, Cauca, or I guess El Jagual, which was the community that …
Parent's immigration to Peru
Kazumu Naganuma September 20, 2019
He went there with, he said, hundreds of Japanese men on a ship, so that …