Author: Glenn Scoggins
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Sophia Ikeda
H09B, Sophia Ikeda ‘00, Yuriko Kosakai, Neighbor, 1924, Kanagawa: Kamakura-shi, Tōkyō During the Second World War, many people were killed and many lives were affected. It was not a good time for anyone, because it created many memories that people don’t want to remember. I interviewed my next-door neighbor. Her name is Yuriko Kosakai, and…
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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…
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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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Kōta Matsumoto
W03, Kōta Matsumoto ‘22, Isamu Tamura, Grandfather, 1938, Okayama My maternal grandfather was born in 1938, so he grew up during World War II in the city of Okayama. In November 2020, at the age of 82, he talked to me about his childhood memories. Q: Was there any shortage of resources before the air…
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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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Haruka Shiga
W04, Haruka Shiga ‘22, Nao Mori, Grandmother’s friend, 1933,Yokohama: Naka-ku, Nishi-ku My grandmother’s friend, Mrs Nao Mori, lives in Yokohama. She was born in 1933 and grew up during World War II. I interviewed her in November 2020. Q. How old were you at the beginning of World War II? A. I was in the…
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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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Freddie Jinzaki
M01C, Freddie Jinzaki ‘06, Grandmother, 1936, Hyōgo My grandmother was born in 1936 and experienced the war when she was in elementary school. She lived in Kōbe, as the oldest child of her family, and she remembers quite a lot about this time period. She remembers very clearly the keihō warning sirens. There were two…
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Pamela Bernard
K01B, Pamela Bernard ‘02, Tomohisa Ōishi, Uncle, 1935, Yokohama: Nishi-ku, Kanagawa: Hadano-shi I interviewed Tomohisa Ōishi, who is my uncle, my mother’s oldest brother. He is 65 years old and was born in 1935. During World War II, he lived in a place called Sengen-chō, not far from Yokohama Station in Nishi-ku. When war broke…
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Yui Shapard
L13U, Yui Shapard ‘04, Grandfather, 1928, Shizuoka I interviewed my grandfather, who lived through World War II. He was born on February 14, 1928, and now he is 74 years old. Q: How old were you when the war started? What are your memories of the war, or your impressions, or beliefs? A: I was…