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![Toru Saito Interview (ddr-densho-1000-307)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
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Toru Saito Interview (ddr-densho-1000-307)
Sansei male. Born December 11, 1937, in San Francisco, California. Nearly age four when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Removed with family to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. In this interview, Mr. Saito discusses many of the harmful psychological effects of the World War II experience on himself and other Japanese …
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Narrator Toru Saito
Sansei male. Born December 11, 1937, in San Francisco, California. Nearly age four when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Removed with family to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. In this interview, Mr. Saito discusses many of the harmful psychological effects of the World War II experience on himself and other Japanese …
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-307-6)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
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Toru Saito Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-307-6)
The psychological impact of camp on Japanese Americans
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-307-10)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
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Toru Saito Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-307-10)
Getting into mischief as a child in camp
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-307-17)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-307-1)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-307-9)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
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Toru Saito Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-307-9)
Returning to Topaz and finding marbles buried there as a child
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-307-16)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-307-4)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
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Toru Saito Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-307-4)
Hospitalized for earaches while family was incarcerated
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-307-19)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
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Toru Saito Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-307-19)
Therapeutic effects of talking about wartime experiences
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-307-3)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
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Toru Saito Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-307-3)
As a child, remembering being frightened after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-307-14)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-307-8)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-307-12)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
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Toru Saito Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-307-12)
Reluctance to talk about abuse in the Japanese American community
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-307-2)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-307-5)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-307-11)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-307-20)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)
![Toru Saito Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-307-13)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/fb/bafb4068608418d9b7968d70a26b98a4.jpg)