Interview with Don Oka, Steve Yagi, and Shigeo Ito, part 8 of 8; interview with Nobuo Yamashita, part 1 of 5

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Oka is on the left, Yagi in the center, and Ito on the right. Oka discusses his recovery from tuberculosis, entering and winning a cartoon contest, going to art school after recovery, starting to work in advertising, returning to cartooning after retirement, and serving in JICPOA, and working with white officers. Yagi discusses working in the post office. Interview starts at 0:22; tape includes several reaction shots. At 11:35, interview with Nobuo Yamashita starts. Yamashita discusses being born in LA, going to Japan as a young child, attending school in LA, his family's produce business, the start of the war, evacuation to Manzanar, laying linoleum at camp, working on sugar beet farms in Montana, and volunteering for the MIS language school. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II LA #54, 7-26-85, Oka, Yagi, Ito VIII. Yamashita nterview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1777/

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July 26, 1985

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Courtesy of David Welsh, The Center for Educational Telecommunications (CET)

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