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Frank Yamasaki Interview II Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-131-2)
Growing up "poor," finding odd jobs as a child to make pocket money
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Frank Yamasaki Interview II Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-131-17)
Thoughts on the media coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City
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Frank Yamasaki Interview II Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-131-7)
The pain of discrimination: "growing up, discrimination was a part of the environment that we grew up in"
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Frank Yamasaki Interview II Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-131-1)
Family background: mother's immigration to the United States in 1913; growing up one of five children
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Frank Yamasaki Interview II Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-131-13)
Release from McNeil Island Penitentiary; returning to Seattle, facing employment discrimination
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Frank Yamasaki Interview II Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-131-14)
Discussion of the effects of World War II and the incarceration on Japanese Americans: denial of culture, dissent within the Japanese American community
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Frank Yamasaki Interview II Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-131-9)
Feeling shock upon hearing of the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-107-6)
Raising Nisei children within the community, Issei methods of parental control
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-107-4)
Ethnic make-up of childhood neighborhood; first exposure to Italian culture
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-107-7)
Encountering racial discrimination: denial of access to public pool
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-107-34)
Starting over after the war: denial of all things Japanese, and attitude toward pardon of draft resisters
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-107-11)
Ostracization by classmates following bombing of Pearl Harbor: "I'm still bitter"
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-107-19)
Increased leisure time for the Issei in camp
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-107-14)
Teenage activities in Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 32 (ddr-densho-1000-107-32)
Career decisions upon being released from prison: interest in art
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-107-21)
Deciding to leave camp and go to Spokane, Washington
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-107-2)
Choosing an "American" name: from "Hideo" to "Frank"
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-107-1)
Description of parents' early life adjusting to the U.S.
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-107-18)
Memories of Minidoka concentration camp: sand everywhere, even in the food
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-107-16)
Quarantined for measles in Puyallup Assembly Center
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-107-22)
Contracting tuberculosis and living in a sanitarium
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-107-17)
Memories of assembly center: dances, friends
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-107-20)
Community life in Minidoka concentration camp: bands, sumo, Japanese crafts, and other activities
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Frank Yamasaki Interview I Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-107-8)
Teenage "rites of passage": driving, smoking