サンフランシスコからリトルトーキョーへ移り住んだ日系三世。近所の全米日系人博物館でボランティアのカメラマンとして活動している。2001年にはカリフォルニア人権公教育プログラム（California Civil Liberties Public Education Program）から助成金を得て、ドキュメンタリー映画「Calling Tokyo: Japanese American Radio Broadcasters of World War II」（訳注：第二次大戦中に米英軍が日本に向けて行ったプロパガンダ放送に参加した日系アメリカ人アナウンサーについてのドキュメンタリー）を制作。このドキュメンタリーの題材となった第二次世界戦中の父の仕事がきっかけで、日系アメリカ人と家族史に興味を持つようになった。
（2013年3月 更新）
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Camp Pets: Doggone It! - Part 1
2012年8月21日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
One of my earliest childhood memories comes from being in what can rightfully be called a “concentration camp.” (Webster’s New World Fourth College Edition Dictionary: “A prison camp in which political dissidents, members of minority ethnic groups, etc. are confined.” Even President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other top political leaders referred to them as concentration camps. In such a camp, nearing the age of 5, I remember panicking and jumping into a ditch to “escape” a dog near the barrack …
Letters from Camp - Part 3
2011年6月1日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
Read Part 2 >>In all, the documents and letters, even telegrams, showed that there were many pleas for hearings to be held so that he could make a case for his parole and release. All of his and the family’s pleas were turned down. The main reason given was that there was never any new evidence introduced to make them change their original judgment. While the family’s efforts were well-meaning, I also could not see any new reasons for their …
Letters from Camp - Part 2
2011年5月25日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
Read Part 1 >>In 2003, in response to a request I’d submitted to the National Archives in Washington, DC for documentation relating to my grandfather’s arrest and imprisonment by the FBI, INS and the DOJ during WWII, I received well-over 190-copy pages of records from his personal file, which included a filled-out 28-page “U.S. Department of Justice, Alien Enemy Questionnaire.” I learned that he was in: Fort Missoula, Montana; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Camp Livingston, Louisiana; Lordsburg, New Mexico and ended-up …
Letters from Camp - Part 1
2011年5月18日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
These were not letters from a summer camp like the funny one from a young homesick camper as written by songwriter, Allan Sherman, in his 1964 Grammy Award winning song which began, “Hello Muddah – Hello Faddah – Here I am – in Camp Granada…” No!…Although the letters from the camp of which I speak were from Granada, they were actually from the Granada War Relocation Authority Center, a prison camp!The WRA camp’s name was changed from Granada to Amache …
DOR 2010
2011年2月1日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
In anticipation of upcoming Day of Remembrance (DOR) events in 2010, I looked over the DOR Calendar Listing published in the Feb. 5-18, 2010 Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) newspaper, Pacific Citizen. I was impressed by the nationwide spread and variety of events organized by Japanese American communities in Washington, DC; Cambridge, MA; Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; and many West Coast cities to keep alive the history of the forced evacuation, relocation and imprisonment of America’s Japanese population during World War …
Denver
2010年4月22日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
As mentioned in “Amache Arrival”, our father, Sam Masami Ono, 29 (a San Franciscan) and George Dote (a Los Angeleno), were both released February 10, 1943 from Amache, the Colorado War Relocation Authority camp near the small town of Granada, Colorado. They were invited to go to Denver to audition/interview for translation and broadcasting jobs with the British Political Warfare Mission (BPWM). The British agency partnered with the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) in a “Joint Anglo-American Program of …
Amache Arrival
2010年2月11日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
On September 18, 1942, finally, after the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train engine, the last of the different locomotive engines that took their turn pulling our passenger train carrying us Japanese evacuees aboard through their own railroad company jurisdictions, we arrived at the small farming town of Granada, Colorado. It took three days of confined discomfort. The seemingly endless travel time was caused by the priority given scheduled passenger, military and freight trains over our “special” evacuation trains, which …
Mochi Making Then and Now
2010年1月1日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
NOW:As we near the end of the year and the beginning of a new year, many Japanese American organizations (churches, cultural centers and museums) sponsor programs relating to Oshogatsu (New Year as celebrated by Japanese). Programs abound featuring the preparation of the many traditional Oshogatsu foods, which includes the production of mochi or mochitsuki. The hands-on labor intensive pounding of cooked sweet rice (mochigome) with a wooden mallet (pestle) called kine1 in an usu (mortar)2 is the traditional method used …
A Sunday Drive - Mommy’s Birthday
2009年12月2日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
I imagine it was a beautifully clear December morning, our Mommy’s birthday, a “day of rest” Sunday, and a new Chevy coupe parked out in front on Geary Street! Daddy didn’t need any more reasons to decide, “Let’s take a drive out to the country!” Our father, Sam Masami Ono packed my brother Stanley Kazumi, almost-3 and me, almost -2, (we were both born in January), our Auntie Yuki Okamura and of course, our mother Kimiye, the “birthday-girl” into the …
All Mankind are Brothers (Alle Menschen Verden Bruder) - Part 2 of 2
2009年9月12日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
>> Part 1 July 10, 2009 – Bridging USA & Japan Concert – Walt Disney Concert HallThe choir reported to the Walt Disney Concert Hall (WDCH) for the check-in process at 2:00 pm for the 8:00 pm concert. WHY? We learned why. Can you imagine coordinating more than 380 choir singers, considering that, for many, the concert and the visit to the WDCH was a new experience? We had to be organized so that we could enter the hall according …
