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After service, joined family in Ontario, Oregon."},{"id":"143","model":"narrator","index":"14 114/{'value': 146, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/143/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/143/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/yhisaye.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/yhisaye.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/143/interviews/"},"display_name":"Hisaye Yamamoto","bio":"Nisei female. Born August 23, 1921, in Redondo Beach, California. Raised in California before mass removal to Parker Dam Assembly Center, Arizona, which was later converted into Poston concentration camp. An aspiring writer, worked for the camp newspaper, the Poston Chronicle, while incarcerated. After leaving camp, returned to California and worked for the Los Angeles Tribune. In 1988, published a book titled Seventeen Syllables and other stories. 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Attended barber school in San Francisco, eventually joining father's barber business."},{"id":"568","model":"narrator","index":"16 116/{'value': 146, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/568/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/568/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/wlloyd.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/wlloyd.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/568/interviews/"},"display_name":"Lloyd K. Wake","bio":"Nisei male.  Born January 12, 1922, in Reedley, California. Grew up in Reedley, where parents ran a farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Left camp in 1943 to attend Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, and entered the ministry. 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