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Father's arrest by FBI because he was a Japanese schoolteacher

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September 3, 2004

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Amy Tsugawa

Amy Tsugawa Interview

01:30:42 — 14 segments

September 3, 2004

Nisei female. Born and raised in Hawaii. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was arrested by the FBI. The rest of the family was removed to the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, and the Gila River concentration camp, Arizona, to be reunited with father. After leaving camp, moved with family to Japan before eventually returning to Hawaii and then moving to Portland, Oregon.

(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)

Dane Fujimoto, interviewer; Tim Rooney, videographer

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