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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-63-27)
The current small business community
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 32 (ddr-densho-1000-63-32)
Interacting with people of diverse backgrounds
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-63-21)
Leaving camp and returning to Seattle
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-63-20)
Getting permission to temporarily leave camp and visit a nearby town
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-63-22)
Returning to Seattle after World War II, reopening the family business
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-63-16)
Adjusting to life in Minidoka concentration camp
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-63-5)
Attending church, going to school
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-63-9)
Prewar holidays and celebrations
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-63-26)
Thoughts on running the family's store postwar
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-63-15)
Packing for mass removal; memories of Puyallup Assembly Center
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-63-4)
Recreational activities as children: visiting Playland
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-63-23)
Few difficulties reopening family store
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-63-18)
Teaching children to cook in camp
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Ayako Murakami - Masako Murakami Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-63-6)
Attending Bailey Gatzert Elementary School and the Japanese language school in Seattle, Washington
Narrator Masako Murakami
Nisei female. Born October 22, 1919, in Seattle, Washington. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled in Seattle, Washington. Coproprietor of Higo Variety Store in Seattle's International District with sister Ayako; the family-owned Japanese American business has been in operation since 1923.
Narrator Masako Murakami
Sansei female. Born March 27, 1934, in San Francisco, California. Parents were both Kibei from Seattle, Washington, and Bakersfield, California. Grew up in San Francisco, California, where father was in sales. During World War II, removed to the Gila River concentration camp, Arizona. After father signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire," transferred to the Tule …
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Masako Murakami Interview Segment 5 (ddr-manz-1-166-5)
Father's answering "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"
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Masako Murakami Interview Segment 10 (ddr-manz-1-166-10)
The stigma of having been at Tule Lake while it was a segregation center
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Masako Murakami Interview Segment 12 (ddr-manz-1-166-12)
Leaving camp and returning to California