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Kunio Otani Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-75-3)
Learning English in school after growing up speaking Japanese
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Kunio Otani Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-75-13)
Working as the sports editor for the Tulean Dispatch, a camp newspaper
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Kunio Otani Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-75-11)
Arriving early to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California
Narrator Kunio Otani
Nisei male. Born July 31, 1921, in Seattle, Washington. Raised in Raymond, Washington. Incarcerated at Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming; he worked on the staff of both camp newspapers, the Tulean Dispatch and the Heart Mountain Sentinel, respectively. Resettled in Seattle after the war and entered the greenhouse business. He …