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Shinki,Venancio

Help from fellow Japanese (Spanish)

Venancio Shinki September 6, 2007

 (Spanish) I left the house and saw in the distance an old man with a …

Yamano,Jane Aiko

New Year's food

Jane Aiko Yamano September 3, 2003

And I think that the Japanese Americans eat more Japanese food than the Japanese people …

Yokoyama,Wayne Shigeto

Food growing up

Wayne Shigeto Yokoyama November 13, 2003

My parents spoke Japanese to each other. My mother would speak English sentences with Japanese …

Bain,Peggie Nishimura

Learning American cooking

Peggie Nishimura Bain September 15-17, 2004

There was a neighbor by the name of McDonalds, Mrs. McDonald was teaching us how …

Shibayama,Art

Activities growing up in Peru

Art Shibayama October 26, 2003

In 1940, I think, when they took census, there were twenty-six thousand Japanese and Japanese …

Shibayama,Art

Family's deportation from Peru to U.S. after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Art Shibayama October 26, 2003

Every time a U.S. transport came into the port of Callao, words got around and …

Shibayama,Art

Denied redress as a Japanese Peruvian

Art Shibayama October 26, 2003

I got a letter from Office of Redress saying that I was denied because I …

Shinki,Venancio

Education Japanese style (Spanish)

Venancio Shinki September 6, 2007

(Spanish) Here comes the part of the story that, because of my old age, that …

Shinki,Venancio

Closing the Japanese school and deportation (Spanish)

Venancio Shinki September 6, 2007

(Spanish) Before they expelled us from school, something else happened. As time passed, we believed, …

Kato,Alfredo

Japanese vs. Peruvian identity (Spanish)

Alfredo Kato October 7, 2005

(Spanish) The question of whether one identifies more with Japan than with Peru… Ever since …

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