Interviews
Not a "camp story" but a human story
Oh you don’t say “the camp story” because it’s (Farewell to Manzanar) not the camp story. This is a human story. I mean do people say, “Oh the Civil War story’s been done”? Or “The Holocaust has been done”? You know, I mean because there are so many different aspects of that. And of course the internment is the landmark experience, I guess, for the…what is it? The watershed experience for Japanese Americans. But you know there are so many shades of it, of how it has affected people. And the stories themselves.
Date: December 27, 2005
Location: California, US
Interviewer: John Esaki
Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum
Explore More Videos
Traveling to Manzanar
(b. 1921) Nisei veteran who served in the occupation of Japan
Victory Corps Work during World War II
(1925 - 2018) Nisei educator from Hawai‘i
Jobs in Manzanar
(b. 1921) Nisei veteran who served in the occupation of Japan
Sugar beet and potato farming in Idaho
(b. 1921) Nisei veteran who served in the occupation of Japan
Recalling Pinedale and Tule Lake concentration camps
Judge, only Japanese American to serve on CWRIC.
On the Impact of the Camp Experience
(b. 1942) The first Asian American woman judge
A memorable CWRIC testimony of an unjust situation
Judge, only Japanese American to serve on CWRIC.
Being called out of Reserves
(b. 1921) Nisei veteran who served in the occupation of Japan
Fort Snelling
(b. 1921) Nisei veteran who served in the occupation of Japan
Traveling from Manila to Tokyo
(b. 1921) Nisei veteran who served in the occupation of Japan
Camp stories impact on her career
Sansei judge on the Superior Court of Los Angeles County in California