Densho Digital Archive
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection
Title: Gerald Nakata Interview
Narrator: Gerald Nakata
Interviewer: Frank Kitamoto
Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington
Date: February 26, 2006
Densho ID: denshovh-ngerald-01-0005

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FK: Now, March 24th... about Pearl Harbor, where were you when you heard about Pearl Harbor?

GN: I was on the golf course at Wing Point, playing with Moe and the two Okazaki boys. It was a private club, it was nine holes, sand greens. And we got to know the pro real well, he treated us -- being a private club, we weren't members, but he let us play. And there was one, seventh tee, the tee box was near the, near the road. And my cousin Mas Omoto came by and says, "Hey, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor," and the first thing we asked was, "Where's Pearl Harbor?" We never heard of Pearl Harbor. And we finished the round and we came home, and everybody was listening to the radio and that was, that was an odd feeling, being Japanese. But the next morning, we went, I went to work with my brothers and the customers came in and sympathized with us, and I thought that was, that was special. But that's Bainbridge. Bainbridge is very unique.

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