Entrevistas

1. The Origin of my Name (Japanese)

2. Attending Kindergarten in Panama (Japanese)

3. My father who returned by prisoner of war exchange ship (Japanese)

4. Meeting Harry for the first time (Japanese)

5. On international marriages (Japanese)

6. Masao-san (Japanese)

7. Conflicted about immigrating to America (Japanese)

8. You can’t be loyal to two countries (Japanese)

9. Respecting the will of a five-year-old daughter (Japanese)

10. Why I’m glad I immigrated to America (Japanese)

Schneider,Jean Hamako

(n. 1925) Novia de la guerra

Respecting the will of a five-year-old daughter (Japanese)

(Japanese) It might have been when Nakako was around five. I was thinking I would do my best to teach her Japanese, but she told me not to. “What do you mean?” I asked her. “It’ll help you in the future. Just learn some Japanese. I’ll teach you,” I told her. She was only five years old, and even though she was so tiny, she told me, “I won’t say sorry I didn’t learn Japanese.” Then, “Please try not to teach me.” So, from that moment on, I didn’t teach her any Japanese.

Now, she complains to me about it. “Why didn’t you teach me?” she says. “You were the one who said, ‘Don’t teach me any Japanese,’ weren’t you?” I tell her back. And she answers, “But who takes such a small child’s opinion so seriously?”

japoneses idiomas

Fecha: January 26, 2012

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: John Esaki, Yoko Nishimura

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Jean Hamako Schneider (apellido de soltera: AMANO) nacida en 1925 en la Ciudad de Yokohama, Japón. En 1933 su padre, el famoso hombre de negocios en América Latina, Yoshitaro AMANO se lo lleva a Panamá y allí permenece durante 2 años. Su padre como permaneció en Panamá quedó atrapado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial y recién en 1942 pudo regresar a Japón con un barco de intercambio de prisioneros. En la posguerra, dado que Hamako trabajaba en la radio conoce a quien será su marido, a Harry Schneider, que era un miembro de la MIS – Military Intelligence Service, perteneciente a las fuerzas de ocupación norteamericana. En 1948 se casa con Harry y dos años después se va a vivir a los Estados Unidos como “novia de la guerra” (sensoo hanayome). Tienen una hija y luego se naturaliza norteamericana. Actualmente, vive en la ciudad de Encinitas en el Estado de California. (Setiembre de 2014)