Makoto Otsu Interview Segment 8

Parents' family backgrounds: immigration to Canada (ddr-densho-1000-497-1) - 0:04:08
Description of siblings (ddr-densho-1000-497-2) - 0:04:59
Attending Japanese language school (ddr-densho-1000-497-3) - 0:05:14
Living in a company cabin owned by a fishing cannery (ddr-densho-1000-497-4) - 0:06:07
Description of family's house (ddr-densho-1000-497-5) - 0:04:53
The practice of gillnet fishing on a river (ddr-densho-1000-497-6) - 0:04:40
Attending school, participating in Japanese community activities (ddr-densho-1000-497-7) - 0:04:03
Playing baseball (ddr-densho-1000-497-8) - 0:01:30
Preparing to leave Steveston after the bombing of Pearl Harbor (ddr-densho-1000-497-9) - 0:04:26
The journey by train to Minto Mine (ddr-densho-1000-497-10) - 0:05:20
Activities, recreational activities in Minto Mine (ddr-densho-1000-497-11) - 0:07:29
Taking correspondence courses during the war (ddr-densho-1000-497-12) - 0:01:50
Moving to Winnipeg, staying with a family friend (ddr-densho-1000-497-13) - 0:07:15
Living and working in Winnipeg (ddr-densho-1000-497-14) - 0:04:59
Attending college (ddr-densho-1000-497-15) - 0:02:11
Family's return to Steveston (ddr-densho-1000-497-16) - 0:03:19
Moving to Toronto to work for an aircraft company (ddr-densho-1000-497-17) - 0:04:36
Meeting future wife (ddr-densho-1000-497-18) - 0:05:19
Taking a job with Boeing (ddr-densho-1000-497-19) - 0:07:38
Raising children (ddr-densho-1000-497-20) - 0:05:16
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Playing baseball

0:01:30 — Segment 8 of 20

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24-Mar-22

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Makoto Otsu

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Makoto Otsu Interview

1:36:40 — 20 segments

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March 24, 2022

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Seattle, Washington

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Nisei male. Born March 26, 1926, in Steveston, British Columbia, Canada. Grew up in Steveston, where father fished for a cannery. During World War II, the family was forced to leave Steveston and moved to the abandoned Minto Mine site in the Bridge River Valley of British Columbia. After staying for a few years, Makoto moved to Winnipeg, Canada, to attend school, and got a job at an aircraft company in Toronto. In the 1950s, took a job with Boeing and moved to Seattle, Washington.

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Tom Ikeda, interviewer; Barbara Yasui, interviewer; Dana Hoshide, videographer

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