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After leaving camp, was drafted into the U.S. military and served as an interpreter in Japan."},{"id":"858","model":"narrator","index":"6 106/{'value': 622, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/858/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/858/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/tsanzui.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/tsanzui.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/858/interviews/"},"display_name":"Sanzui A. Takaha","bio":"Nisei male. Born December 12, 1926. Grew up in Half Moon Bay, California. During World War II, removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Drafted into the army near the end of the war, and served in Germany. 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After leaving camp, resettled for a time in New York before returning to Redwood City."},{"id":"401","model":"narrator","index":"8 108/{'value': 622, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/401/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/401/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/oisao.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/oisao.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/401/interviews/"},"display_name":"Isao East Oshima","bio":"Nisei male. Born April 20, 1921, in Berkeley, California. Family moved frequently as a child, and was living in Oakland, California, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. During World War II, removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Left camp for Cleveland, Ohio, eventually settling permanently in the Twin Cities, Minnesota."},{"id":"575","model":"narrator","index":"9 109/{'value': 622, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/575/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/575/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ikazuko.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ikazuko.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/575/interviews/"},"display_name":"Kazuko Iwahashi","bio":"Nisei female. Born December 16, 1929, in Berkeley, California. Grew up in Berkeley where parents operated a nursery business. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was removed with family to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After leaving camp, returned to Berkeley, working as a schoolgirl for a white woman while attending high school."},{"id":"993","model":"narrator","index":"10 110/{'value': 622, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/993/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/993/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-ajah-1-6_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-ajah-1-6_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/993/interviews/"},"display_name":"Jo Takata","bio":"Sansei female. Born January 16, 1944, at the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After leaving camp, the family returned to Alameda, California, where they had lived before World War II. Jo grew up in Alameda and became a high school teacher. 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Eventually returned to San Francisco."},{"id":"314","model":"narrator","index":"19 119/{'value': 622, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/314/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/314/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ograce.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ograce.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/314/interviews/"},"display_name":"Grace F. Oshita","bio":"Nisei female. Born January 2, 1925, in San Francisco, California. Spent childhood in San Francisco where family operated successful miso factory and grocery store. Father arrested by FBI in February 1942 and sent to Fort Lincoln internment camp, North Dakota. Family removed to Tanforan Assembly Center and Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Graduated from Topaz High School in 1943. Family resettled in Salt Lake City and reestablished the miso factory. Worked as office manager at miso factory until it was sold in the 1980s. Has been speaking to school groups about camp experience for the past 40 years."},{"id":"336","model":"narrator","index":"20 120/{'value': 622, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/336/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/336/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ubob.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ubob.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/336/interviews/"},"display_name":"Bob Utsumi","bio":"Nisei male. Born November 12, 1928, in Oakland, California. Grew up in Oakland before being removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah, during World War II. Returned to Oakland with family and attended the University of California at Berkeley before enlisting in the U.S. Air Force. Established career in the military and served for twenty-one years."},{"id":"809","model":"narrator","index":"21 121/{'value': 622, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/809/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/809/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/iwillie.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/iwillie.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/809/interviews/"},"display_name":"Willie K. Ito","bio":"Sansei male. Born July 17, 1934, in San Francisco, California. Grew up in San Francisco, where he developed an early interest in Disney and the art of cartooning. During World War II, removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After leaving camp, returned to San Francisco. 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While in Topaz, was permitted to travel around the country as a buyer for the camp co-op store, and also obtained permission to shoot home movie footage from within the camp itself. After World War II, established the Nichibei Bussan Department Store in San Jose's Japantown."},{"id":"983","model":"narrator","index":"23 123/{'value': 622, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/983/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/983/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-494-2_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-494-2_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/983/interviews/"},"display_name":"Mary Kato","bio":"Nisei-Sansei female. Born in February 23, 1924, in Hood River, Oregon. Grew up in Mosier, Oregon, where parents worked on an orchard and did truck farming. 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