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av Interview with Akiko, Brian Yamakoshi, Kenny and Chizuko, part 3 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1719)

Akiko, a Japanese national, discusses her time in the US, meeting a Nisei couple from Watsonville, CA, being a minority in the US, the differences between Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals, and racial discrimination in the US. Original title: 226, II JA #58, Brian Yamakoshi, Fri. Feb. 7. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1720/

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av Interview with Yukio Kawamoto, part 6 of 8 (ddr-densho-1007-1550)

Kawamoto discusses post-war occupation of Japan, work with the military tribunal & ATIS, working for the US government at home, and the decision to volunteer. Video starts at 0:50. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II NY #34, 6-85, Kawamoto.. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1551/

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av Interview with Nobuo Yamashita, part 5 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1780)

Nobuo briefly discusses his encounter with a geisha. Interview ends at 2:25; rest of tape is b-roll of a list of soldiers in Company B and photos/immigration documents presumably from the Yamashita family. Original title: II LA #58, 7-26-85, Yamashita V

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av Interview with Kiyofumi Kojima, part 2 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1694)

Interview conducted in Japanese. Original title: 209, II JA #33, Kiyofumi Kojima, Feb. 1, 1986, 15B. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1695/

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av Interview with Yukio Kawamoto, part 1 of 8 (ddr-densho-1007-1545)

Kawamoto discusses his childhood in Berkeley, his high school colleauges, Pearl Harbor, being drafted, and trying to get a job pre-war. Video starts at 1:01. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 47, II NY #29, 6-85, Kawamoto. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1546/

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av Interview with Kiyofumi Kojima, part 1 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1693)

Kojima served as a signal caller in the Japanese Imperial Navy on the battleship Yamato. Interview conducted in Japanese. Original title: 208, II JA #32, Kiyofumi Kojima, Feb. 1, 1986, 15A. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1694/

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av Interview with Hideko Seo, part 2 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1536)

Seo discusses the life and death of her brother and wartime deaths more generally. Audio starts at 0:53. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 40, II NY #20, 6-85, Hideko Seo. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1537/

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av Interview with Hideko Seo, part 4 of 4; b-roll of dolls and kimonos (ddr-densho-1007-1538)

Hideko Seo discusses her family life pre-war, visiting Bruyeres, and post-war memory. Seo interview ends at 11:34; rest of tape is shots of Hinamatsuri dolls and kimonos, presumably from the household of Kazuko Iijima. Video starts at 0:54. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 42, II NY #22, 6-85, Hideko …

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av Interview with Ray Aka, part 2 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1686)

Aka discusses being drafted in San Francisco, his reaction to Pearl Harbor (which happened two months after he was drafted), being relieved from duties after Pearl Harbor, his prospects as a Nisei growing up in Hawaii, his father's arrest in Hawaii and incarceration in mainland US. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions in the background. …

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av Interview with George Nakamura, part 2 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1681)

Nakamura discusses his deployment to Asia, his service in Chongqing, interrogating Japanese prisoners of war, and translating captured documents. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions in the background. Original title: 197, II JA #15, George Nakamura, Fri. Jan 31. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1682/

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av Interview with Yosh Nakayama, part 3 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1587)

Nakayama discusses his time searching for downed planes with the Graves Registration team in occupied Japan. Video starts at 0:26. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II LA #14, Y. Nakayama III, 7-23-85. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1588/

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av Interview with Yukio Kawamoto, part 5 of 8 (ddr-densho-1007-1549)

Kawamoto discusses the letters he wrote to his parents during his service, visiting them in camp (Topaz), and getting his dog tags marked as Buddhist. Also talks about post-war occupation of Japan with ATIS. Video starts at 0:57. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 50, II NY #33, Kawamoto. Interview …

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av Interview with Frank Emi, part 5 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1796)

Emi discusses community organizations and publications that shunned the draft resisters, the statement by the Fair Play Committee that triggered their arrest, what his children know of his time in camp, and why some Nisei and Issei don't discuss what happened during the war. Emi also reads a letter from George Ishikawa leading up to the …

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av Interview with Bill Dizer, part 1 of 3 (ddr-densho-1007-1676)

Dizer, who lives in Japan, discusses how he started to learn Japanese at the University of Michigan, his thoughts on evacuation and his deployment in Japan. Interview starts at 6:15. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 193, II JA #10, Bill Dizer, Fri., Jan. 31. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1677/

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av Interview with Harry Fukuhara, part 1 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1697)

Fukuhara discusses his service in the Pacific theater, working with ATIS, and his first landing. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Last few seconds are an accidental recording from the Kiyofumi Kojima interview. Original title: 212, II JA #36, Harry Fukuhara, Sun. Feb. 2. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1698/

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av Interview with Harry Fukuhara, part 2 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1698)

Fukuhara discusses his service in the Pacific, being mistaken for a Japanese soldier, interviewing a gravely wounded prisoner of war, and POWs he interviewed just before their death. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 213, II JA #37, Harry Fukuhara, Sun. Feb. 2. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1699/

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av Interview with Clarence Matsumura, part 4 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1772)

Matsumura discusses stumbling across Dachau near the end of the war, finding and rehabilitating concentration camp survivors in Waakirchen, pursuing the German military towards Berchtesgaden and then Berlin, Germany surrendering, the end of the war, and leaving the military. Interview starts at 0:50. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions in the background. Original title: II …

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av Interview with William Kochiyama, part 2 of 3 (ddr-densho-1007-1523)

Kochiyama discusses the 442nd, particularly the rescue of the Lost Battalion. Also talks about draft resisters. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Video starts at 1:21. Original title: 28, II NY #7, 6-5-84. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1524/

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av Interview with Jimmie Matsumura, part 3 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1607)

Matsumura discusses the time he spent in Japan as a child, the difficulty of Japanese high school, his work on the Far East military tribunal post-war. Video starts at 0:24. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Audio cuts out at 20:36. Original title: II LA #34, 7-24-85, J. Matsumura Interview III. Interview …

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av Interview with Akiko, Brian Yamakoshi, Kenny and Chizuko, part 2 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1718)

Brian Yamakoshi discusses his reasons for playing koto, his feelings on the art form, and his approach to the instrument. Kenny discusses his experience playing taiko, his first time hearing Japanese drums, his time on an indigenous American reservation, growing up in La Habra, CA, and how time spent at a pueblo encouraged him to learn …

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av Interview with Ray Aka, part 5 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1689)

Aka discusses the role of Nisei in the occupation of Japan, his work with natural disaster aid in occupied Japan, and the nuances of translation work after the war. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions in the background. Original title: 200, II JA #23, Ray Aka, Feb. 1, 1986, has some distorted audio. Interview continues …

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av Interview with Harry Fukuhara, part 6 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1637)

Fukuhara discusses the reasons why some Nisei did not join the military, why he volunteered, his feelings on incarceration, and discrimination he faced in the US. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Video ends at 20:00. Original title: 123, II SJ #29, 8-17-85, Harry's House SJ

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av Interview with Yosh Nakayama, part 4 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1588)

Nakayama discusses his experiences with Japanese locals, his worst memories of camp, his difficulty finding a job after the war, his work translating letters in Japan, his time learning judo in camp and in Japan, and his thoughts on why judo is important for Japanese-American youth. Video starts at 0:29. Loni Ding can be heard asking …

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av Interview with Jim Ariyasu, part 4 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1599)

Ariyasu discusses his service in New Caledonia, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and the Philippines, receiving a Bronze Star medal, and the difficulty of receiving an actual rank in the military. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 85, II LA #26, 7-24-85, Ariyasu Interview V. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1600/

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av Interview with Nobuo Yamashita, part 3 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1778)

Yamashita discusses why his parents didn't want him to go to college, joining his family's produce business, meeting his wife in Manzanar, his service in the Philippines, interrogating prisoners of war, seeing American prisoners who came out of Santo Tomas, the selfishness of weathy Japanese people in Korea, and not getting any promotions or furlough in …

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