Densho Digital Archive
Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Isao Kikuchi
Narrator: Isao Kikuchi
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: May 15, 2009
Densho ID: denshovh-kisao-01-0021

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RP: Let's switch gears a little bit. In your story you talked about how important sports was in the camp for you. Can you...

IK: It was a, or the biggest, I'd call it interest, because it was active and brought your own personalities out and were able to express in all sports, so that's where I believe the sports were so important. Because it took up time and gave a mind to grow and be active, and that's what I think is what would never be broken by the Americans. Is, this is, I believe that is culture of the Japanese basically. Or you could say that that's a common culture, I believe. And that's what I believe also saved my neck. And I believe it proved out in the 442nd also.

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