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Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview (ddr-densho-1000-135)
Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct their own family history interviews. Individually and jointly, they and other family members had written and gathered material documenting their family history. They shared much of this with me to assist with research and preparation for the Densho interview. Mitsuye's daughter Jeni had coordinated …
Collection
Yasutake Collection (ddr-densho-118)
The Yasutake collection consists of photographs from the personal family collection of siblings Mitsuye May Yamada, Tosh Yasutake and Joe Yasutake, who were each interviewed by Densho in 2002.
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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