Marion Tsutakawa Kanemoto Interview Segment 2
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Parents married in Japan, mother immigrates to United States as a "treaty merchant"
00:04:29 — Segment 2 of 49
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Marion Tsutakawa Kanemoto Interview
03:36:26 — 49 segments
DATE
August 3 & 4, 2003
LOCATION
SeaTac, Washington & Seattle, Washington
DESCRIPTION
Nisei female. Born December 30, 1927, in Seattle, Washington. Lived in Japan for fifteen months as a child, before returning to Seattle to attend junior high school. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was picked up by the FBI and taken to the Department of Justice camp at Missoula, Montana. Removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, before being reunited with father at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Family volunteered to leave for Japan in 1943 on the U.S. government's "exchange ship," the USS Gripsholm. Attended high school in Japan, and participated in military and air raid drills. During the U.S.'s postwar occupation of Japan, attended Doshisha University and worked for a U.S. army station hospital library. Returned to the U.S. and enrolled at St. Mary's teaching hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. Denied redress because of expatriation to Japan, but succeeded in obtaining redress in 1996 after filing a class-action lawsuit.
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Alice Ito, interviewer; Dana Hoshide, videographer
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