954 items
954 items
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-132-14)
Introduction to jazz music on the radio; learning how to dance
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-132-10)
Father's decision to move family to Los Angeles, California because of unprofitable Seattle business
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 43 (ddr-densho-1000-132-43)
Taking a one-year sabbatical from teaching to live in Japan with family
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-132-13)
Life in high school: working part-time at a fruit and vegetable stand
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-132-7)
Attending Japanese language school: "It was something we hated, but it was ... expected of us"
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-132-5)
Childhood games: kite-flying, "jintori"
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-132-23)
Arrival at Poston concentration camp: registering, filling own mattress with straw
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-132-28)
Vague memories of internal unrest at Poston
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-132-20)
Feeling self-conscious after the bombing of Pearl Harbor; hearing racist propaganda, rumors
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-132-15)
Feeling a lack of academic motivation; not many professional role models within the Japanese American community
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-132-36)
Getting married, moving to Berkeley, California
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-132-38)
Teaching at the Washington School in Berkeley; one of the first Japanese American instructors to teach there
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-132-31)
Answering "yes-yes" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-132-24)
Life in Poston concentration camp: observing Nisei in a variety of professions
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-132-9)
As a child, sharing a room with grandmother: listening to traditional Japanese music played on a shamisen
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-132-3)
Mother's background: Christian upbringing, training in Western music
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1000-132-35)
Playing swing music in a dance band at Fort Snelling, Minnesota
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-132-34)
Training at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 47 (ddr-densho-1000-132-47)
Learning the drums and playing in bands
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-132-16)
Adolescent years: first experiences learning about human sexuality
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 46 (ddr-densho-1000-132-46)
Impressed with music education in Japan; difficulties of everyday life
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-132-17)
Limited opportunities after graduating from high school: "The future seemed gray, bleak"
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Chris Kato - Yoshi Mamiya - Tad Sato Interview (ddr-densho-1000-33)
In this interview, three Nisei, Chris Kato, Yoshi Mamiya, and Tad Sato recall their memories of growing up in Seattle's Nihonmachi (Japantown) and their respective Japantown family businesses. This informal three-way conversation captures a bit of what Nihonmachi was like before the World War II incarceration forever changed the Japanese American business and social community. Unless …
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Yone Bartholomew Interview II Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-5-7)
Never be ashamed "if you're out there to earn a decent dollar"