Densho Digital Archive
Frank Abe Collection
Title: Yosh Kuromiya Interview
Narrator: Yosh Kuromiya
Interviewers: Frank Abe (primary); Frank Chin (secondary)
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: August 15 & 16, 1993
Densho ID: denshovh-kyosh-01-0002

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FA: You were... first of all, before all this happened, you knew, you had heard Min Yasui.

YK: Yeah.

FA: What did you think of Min Yasui? How did you regard him?

YK: I had him in relatively high regard because of what he had done previously. I was really surprised when he appeared there with Joe Masaoka. And for a while I didn't -- I was a little confused as to what the purpose of this was, so I was willing to listen to him. But as it turned out, it was merely an attempt to dissuade us from what we were doing, and make us feel as though we were doing a disservice to our, our own people.

FA: What kind of room was it, Yosh? Do you recall that? Describe what kind of room it was.

YK: I don't recall exactly. It was a rather... seems to me it was a rather smallish room, and it was quite bare.

FA: What did Min Yasui say to you?

YK: I don't know specifically, I don't recall what he said. But in effect, it was to try to make us see where we had been misadvised and that we didn't really have a case and we were wasting our time.

FC: What did Min Yasui do previously to win your admiration? Why did you respect him?

YK: Oh, his case against the government, challenging the... was it the evacuation?

FC: The curfew.

YK: The curfew.

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