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Mitsuye May Yamada Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-137-25)
Awakening interest in poetry
Mitsuye Yamada was interviewed together with her two surviving brothers, William Toshio Yasutake and Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. She was interviewed individually on October 9-10, 2002.
Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct their own family history interviews. Individually and jointly, they …
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Mitsuye May Yamada Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-137-1)
Explanation of English and Japanese names
Mitsuye Yamada was interviewed together with her two surviving brothers, William Toshio Yasutake and Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. She was interviewed individually on October 9-10, 2002.
Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct their own family history interviews. Individually and …
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 85 (ddr-densho-1000-135-85)
Joe's experience reuniting with father in Crystal City, Texas
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-135-18)
Tosh's and Mitsuye's recollections of brother Joe's birth, live-in nurse
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 71 (ddr-densho-1000-135-71)
Joe's experience attending school in Minidoka; memories of recreational activities
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-135-38)
Description of father's Japanese poetry club, influences on Mitsuye's later work as a writer
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 29 (ddr-densho-1000-135-29)
Joe's childhood memories: learning Japanese on trip to Japan
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-135-12)
Moving to the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, memories of neighbors and an amusing Halloween incident
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 82 (ddr-densho-1000-135-82)
Mitsuye's recollections of leaving camp for Cincinnati
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-135-6)
Tosh's birth in Seattle, Mitsuye's birth in Japan
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-135-13)
Memories of elementary school: dealing with the language barrier and perceived cultural differences
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 33 (ddr-densho-1000-135-33)
Parents' values: don't bring shame to the family
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 52 (ddr-densho-1000-135-52)
Emotional responses upon returning to the site of the Minidoka camp many years after the war
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-135-15)
Mitsuye's upbringing: raised differently by mother as the only girl, being raised in Japan, and having poor health
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 39 (ddr-densho-1000-135-39)
Father's love of literature and reading
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1000-135-35)
Discussion of issues of identity as Japanese American children
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-135-24)
Mitsuye's memories of attending a girls' school in Japan
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 77 (ddr-densho-1000-135-77)
Memories of seeing father for the first time in several years at the Lordsburg internment camp, New Mexico: "a very surreal moment"
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 51 (ddr-densho-1000-135-51)
Memories of the curfew, deciding what to take during mass removal
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 56 (ddr-densho-1000-135-56)
Discussion of storage of belongings
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 37 (ddr-densho-1000-135-37)
Parents' values; influence of religion while growing up
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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-135-9)
A childhood recollection of Tosh and Mitsuye running away from nursery school