Densho Digital Repository
Seattle JACL Oral History Collection
Title: In Memory of Tatsuo Nakata Interview
Narrators: Akemi Matsumoto, Emily Momohara, Joy Shigaki, Arlene Oki
Interviewers: Brent Seto, Bill Tashima
Date: February 6, 2022
Densho ID: ddr-sjacl-2-32-4

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BT: Emily.

EM: So, hi, I'm Emily Hanako Momohara. My pronouns are also she/her. And I am coming from actually Cincinnati, where Tatsuo grew up, and I am sometimes in contact with his mom. I moved here, actually, after grad school, so I had known Tatsuo previously, and it was by happenstance that I ended up here in Cincinnati. I first met him, I think it was 2000. It might have been 2001, we were just talking about this. But it was, I had been working on a project documenting the incarceration camps. And I was looking for support and sponsorship for my project, I came to the JACL, and then I was asked to, if I wanted to be on the Social Justice Committee. And then when Tatsuo became the president-elect, he asked me if I would join the board. And so then, you know, then I became fully entrenched in all things JACL from that point on. So I guess I will pass it on to Arlene.

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