Tom Akashi Interview Segment 48
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Mother and siblings eventually return to live in United States, father chooses to remain in Japan for rest of his life
00:03:59 — Segment 48 of 56
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Tom Akashi Interview
04:13:27 — 56 segments
DATE
July 3, 2004
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Klamath Falls, Oregon
DESCRIPTION
Nisei male. Born June 7, 1929, in Merced, California. Grew up in Mount Eden, California, and was removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Incarcerated at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah, then moved to Tule Lake concentration camp after family volunteered to move to Japan. While at Tule Lake, joined a pro-Japan organization created by father, the Sokoku Kenkyu Seinen Dan, (Young Men's Association for the Study of the Motherland). Renounced U.S. citizenship and expatriated to Japan with parents and siblings in 1945. Lived and worked in Japan until 1948, when returned to the United States. Author of Betrayed Trust: The Story of a Deported Issei and His American-Born Family During WWII, published in 2004.
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Tom Ikeda, interviewer; Chizu Omori, interviewer; Steve Colgrove, videographer
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