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Interview with John Fujii, part 2 of 2 (ddr-densho-1007-1692)
Fujii discusses being suspected as a Japanese spy while working for a newspaper, serving Japan and being interned in India during the war, his sympathy for Japan during the war, his brother's service in the US army, and his brother's attitude toward Japan. Video starts at 0:25. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions in the …
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Interview with Ray Aka, part 1 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1685)
Aka discusses moving to Japan in 1946, growing up on Maui and in Okinawa, returning to the US as a teenager, being drafted, and his Japanese education. The first few minutes of the tape are Loni Ding explaining her interview process to Aka. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions during the interview. Original title: II …
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Interview with Shigeo Yamada, part 3 of 3 (ddr-densho-1007-1709)
Yamada discusses the military service of his brothers (for the Japanese army) and the state of Japan after the war/post-reconstruction. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II JA #48, Shigeo Yamada, Sun. Feb. 2
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Interview with Harry Fukuhara, part 5 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1701)
Fukuhara discusses the role of Nisei in the occupation, the Japanese reaction to occupation, the difficulties of occupation, and the occupation in Okinawa. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 216, II JA #40, Harry Fukuhara, Sun. Feb. 2
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Interview with Kiyofumi Kojima, part 4 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1696)
Interview conducted in Japanese, ends at 11:05. Rest of tape is Kojima reading a poem he wrote while a prisoner of war in Hawaii. Original title: 211, II JA #35, Kiyofumi Kojima, Feb. 1, 1986
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Interview with John Fujii, part 1 of 2 (ddr-densho-1007-1691)
Fujii, who was born and lives in Japan, discusses growing up in Livingston, CA, realizing he was Japanese as a child, going to college at Pomona, segregation in the schools he attended as a child, and his family's internment during the war. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions in the background. Original title: 202, II …
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Interview with Barry Saiki, part 2 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1703)
Saiki discusses his mother's reaction to his father's arrest and imprisonment, his time at Stockton Assembly Center, the attitudes of incarcerees at Stockton, the difficulty Nisei faced trying to find jobs at the time, and being relocated to the Rohwer camp. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II JA #42, …
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Interview with Sen Nishiyama, part 3 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1673)
Nishiyama discusses being in Japan during the war, his and Japan's general reactions to the surrender, the American soldiers that came over during the occupation, and the foundation of the Japanese chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II JA #7, Sen Nishiyama, Fri. …
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Interview with Shigeo Yamada, part 1 of 3 (ddr-densho-1007-1707)
Yamada discusses attending Keio University, being drafted into the Japanese navy, serving on the cruiser Yahagi, a "suicide mission" to occupied Okinawa, and learning Japanese in America as a child. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II JA #46, Shigeo Yamada, Sun. Feb. 2. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1708/
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Interview with Yoshio Miwa, part 1 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1667)
Miwa, a Japanese national, discusses the end of the war, submitting a protest paper to the occupying Americans, and his role in the Home Ministry during the occupation. Interview conducted mostly in Japanese with the aid of an interpreter. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II JA #1, Yoshio Miwa, …
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Interview with George Nakamura, part 1 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1679)
Nakamura discusses moving to Japan in 1955, growing up in Arroyo Grande, CA, evacuation, his time at Tulare and Gila River, volunteering for the military from camp, and camp attitudes toward volunteering. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II JA #13, George Nakamura, Fri. Jan. 31. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1680/
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Interview with Bill Dizer, part 3 of 3 (ddr-densho-1007-1678)
Dizer discusses the differences between Nisei and Japanese nationals, his thoughts on Japanese/Nisei "ethnocentrism", his experience with Japanese work and social life, his advice for his Japanese and American peers, and his views on racial discrimination. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions in the background. Original title: 195, II JA #12, Bill Dizer, Fri. Jan. …
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Interview with Akiko, Brian Yamakoshi, Kenny and Chizuko, part 1 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1717)
In order of left to right: Akiko, Brian Yamakoshi, Kenny, and Chizuko. Aside from Brian, last names unknown; Kenny and Chizuko are married. This tape focuses mainly on Chizuko, who discusses her relationship with her grandfather, her reasons for coming to Japan, and making Noh masks. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. …
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Interview with Hugh Nozawa, part 3 of 3 (ddr-densho-1007-1715)
Nozawa discusses being court-martialed for refusing to serve in the military while the internment camps were operating, the long fight for honorable discharge after the fact, and his reasons for trying to hard to reverse the dishonorable discharge given to Nisei who refused to serve. Original title: 222, II JA #54, Hugh Nozawa, Sun. Feb. 2
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Interview with Hugh Nozawa, part 1 of 3 (ddr-densho-1007-1713)
Nozawa discusses being born in Santa Monica, attending high school in Japan, being drafted, being court-martialed for refusing to complete training, recently getting honorable discharge, the discrimination he and other Nisei faced in the army, and President Roosevelt's visit to Fort Riley. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 220, II …
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Interview with Ray Aka, part 3 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1687)
Aka discusses his father's reaction to being arrested, the sort of person his father was, growing up apart from his family, working as a "schoolboy", his time studying at San Francisco City College, getting drafted, being evacuated to Fort San Houston, and being ordered to go to Camp Savage for language school. Loni Ding can be …
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Koto performance, part 2 of 2; Noh mask making (ddr-densho-1007-1716)
The koto player is Brian Yamakoshi. The woman making masks is Chizuko, last name unknown. Loni Ding can be heard directing in the background. First portion of koto performance at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1724/. Original title: 223, II JA #55, Brian Yamakoshi, Fri. Feb. 7, Last of Yamakoshi, Endo mask making