Author: Glenn Scoggins
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Hirozane Sugihara
G10, Hirozane Sugihara ‘99, Yoshihiko Morikawa, Uncle, 1938, Kanagawa: Kamakura-shi In November 1997, I decided to interview my maternal uncle, named Yoshihiko Morikawa. He is 59 years old and works for a medical equipment company. He lives in Kamakura with his wife, his two sons, and their cat. I remembered the times when I was…
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Yurika Yo
M04C, Yurika Yo ‘06, Yo (Yu) Aiko, Grandmother, 1929, Ōsaka, Hyōgo, China I interviewed my paternal grandmother, who survived World War II. Her name is Yo (originally Yu) Aiko, and she is 73 years old. Her parents were immigrants from China, and my grandmother was born in Kōbe. She went to a Chinese elementary school…
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Tatsuya Kotake
M02, Tatsuya Kotake ‘06, Yoshiko Kitano, Grandmother, 1929, Tōkyō, Niigata When World War II began, my grandmother, Yoshiko Kitano, was twelve years old. She had been born in 1929 (Shōwa 4). She was living in the working-class shitamachi area of Tōkyō with her family. Her neighborhood had a narrow street with five houses on each…
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Hannah Song
K08K, Hannah Song ‘02, Grandmother, c 1934, Korea I interviewed my grandma. At first she couldn’t answer my questions, but then she remembered what happened during World War II. Q: How old were you? A: I was seven years old when the war began. Q: Where did you live? A: I lived in Taegu [central…
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Sugandhi Chugani
H02I, Sugandhi Chugani ‘00, Tatsuko Matsumoto, Neighbor, 1930, Shizuoka On November 1, 1998, I interviewed Mrs Tatsuko Matsumoto. She is 68 years old and is one of the survivors of World War II. Mrs Matsumoto is the next-door neighbor of our family friends. The interview took place at our friends’ residence located in Isogo-ku, Yokohama,…
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Asami Taguchi
K09, Asami Taguchi ‘02, Matthew Ehmke, Chaplain, 1939, United States This interview took place on November 6, 2000. I interviewed Father Matthew Ehmke. He is a Catholic priest who works at Saint Maur. He was born in 1939 and is 61 years old. Q: Where were you during World War II, and whom were you…
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Tomoe Endō
H04U, Tomoe Endō ‘00, Shizue Osias, Grandmother, 1928, Toshiko Endō, Grandmother, 1920, Yokohama: Minami-ku, Shizuoka, Tōkyō, Nagano I interviewed both of my grandmothers about their experiences during World War II. Shizue Sugitō Osias is now 70 years old. She was 17 years old when she heard the air raid alarms in Yokohama and she was…
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Yuriya Miyako
R02, Yuriya Miyako ‘16, Chiyo Miyako, Great-Grandmother, 1901, Manchuria, Wakayama I interviewed Chiyo Miyako at her elder-care home on November 9, 2014. She is 113 years old. She is my paternal great-grandmother, but I will refer to her as “Grandma,” since that is what I call her. [Before her death at the age of 117…
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Sayaka Haishi
H06, Sayaka Haishi ‘00, Grandfather, 1925, Grandmother, 1928, China, Hokkaidō, Tōkyō Before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and declared war on the United States on December 8, 1941, Japan had already invaded China and Vietnam. The Japanese Army then attacked the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia and kept moving southward to enlarge the area under Japanese…
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Myung-Jun Hong
H07K , Myung-Jun Hong ‘00, Grandfather, 1918, Korea, Tōkyō On November 15, 1998, I interviewed my grandfather. He is 80 years old and lives in Tōkyō now. When the war was about to break out, he was studying at Meiji University in Japan. It was very rare for Koreans to study at a prestigious university…