134 results

Uyehara,Grayce Ritsu Kaneda

Importance of education in achieving redress for incarceration

Grayce Ritsu Kaneda Uyehara August 28, 1998

I feel that the major contribution has to do with the educational process, which is …

Yamauchi,Wakako Nakamura

Her experience as a Japanese-American schoolchild in Oceanside, California, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Wakako Nakamura Yamauchi May 22, 1998

I was seventeen, I was a senior in high school. We were making ready; this …

Matsumoto,Roy H.

Kibei schoolchildren in Hiroshima, Japan

Roy H. Matsumoto December 17 & 18, 2003

I started from first grade. So I'm, I'm one of the older, but so happened …

Matsumoto,Roy H.

Difficulties understanding different Japanese dialects

Roy H. Matsumoto December 17 & 18, 2003

I am familiar with Hiroshima because everybody talked like that and I grew up with …

Yamasaki,Frank

Loss of happy-go-lucky adolescence in Puyallup Assembly Center

Frank Yamasaki August 18, 1997

During that period was there an experience I had that was very revealing to me. …

Yamasaki,Frank

Memories of dusty conditions at Minidoka incarceration camp

Frank Yamasaki August 18, 1997

It was very, very dusty. The dust was powdery fine and if I recall, it …

Yamasaki,Frank

Making the decision to resist the draft

Frank Yamasaki August 18, 1997

These were rumors that you must volunteer to prove that you're a good 100 percent …

Kanemoto,Marion Tsutakawa

Witnessing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Marion Tsutakawa Kanemoto August 3 & 4, 2003

And it was soon after that that Hiroshima was bombed. And, but that was the …

Azumano,George

Discharged from the U.S. Army after Pearl Harbor

George Azumano December 5, 2005

I was in the service of the United States Army on December 7 that was …

Yuzawa,George Katsumi

Reaction to a 1942 speech by Mike Masaoka, Japanese American Citizen League's National Secretary

George Katsumi Yuzawa March 2, 2006

I: Do you remember attending a speech that Mike Masaoka gave in Los Angeles? Yes. …

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