Author: Glenn Scoggins
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Miyu Kojima
S03, Miyu Kojima ‘18, Tomō Sugisaka, Family friend, 1926, Hiroshima On November 15, 2016, I interviewed a family friend, Mr Tomō Sugisaka. He is about 90 years old. Q: What were you doing during the Second World War? A: One year before the end of the war, at around the beginning of October 1944, I…
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Keiko Kawamura
L07, Keiko Kawamura ‘04, Hiroko Ogawa, Grandmother, 1922, Manchuria On November 10, 2002, I interviewed my maternal grandmother, Hiroko Ogawa. She was born on August 1, 1922, and she is now 80 years old. Question: Where are you born? Answer: I was born in Dairen [now called Dalian] in Manchuria [northeastern China]. At that time…
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Arina Ii
L06B, Arina Ii ‘04, Fumiko Ii, Grandmother, 1923, Toyama, Nagasaki On November 9, 2002, I interviewed my grandmother, Fumiko Ii, who will soon be 78 years old. To be perfectly honest, I didn’t quite know where to start off, after I had explained to my grandmother the nature of my phone call. I telephoned her…
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Maki Igarashi
L05, Maki Igarashi ‘04, Hisako Ogura, Grandmother, 1926, Aichi I interviewed my maternal grandmother, Hisako Ogura, on November 10, 2002. She was born in 1926 and is 76 years old now. It was 1944, I think, when the war got worse. Inside Japan there were many air raids. Do you know what air raids are?…
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Wako Huang
L04C, Wako Huang ‘04, Shin’ichi Numata, Neighbor, 1919, Yokohama: Naka-ku, Saitama, Kyōto, Gifu On November 11, 2002, I interviewed Shin’ichi Numata, my downstairs neighbor. He is 83 years old. Mr. Numata allowed me to interview him in person. He was an intelligent man, and never hesitated to inform me about his experiences during World War…
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Shamin Haga
L03U, Shamin Haga ‘04, Shōko Narita, Friend’s grandmother, 1936, Aomori I interviewed my friend’s grandmother on November 9, 2002. Her name is Shōko Narita. She was about five years old when the war started, and she told me about the harsh, severe lives people lived during those days. Q: Where and when were you born?…
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Rikuto Shimohori
S05, Rikito Shimohori ‘18, Great-grandfather, Manchuria I asked my grandfather how my great-grandfather would have thought about World War Il, if he were alive. My grandfather told me his story. My grandpa was born in Manchuria, because my great-grandfather created a company there. My great-grandfather was not active in the war, and he was still…
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Miyu Arai
L01, Miyu Arai ‘04, Tsuneko Nakagawa, Grandmother, 1932, Shizuoka, Yokohama: Naka-ku This interview with Tsuneko Nakagawa (who is now 70 years old) was held on November 9, 2002, at the Nakagawa house in Miyamaedaira in northwestern Kawasaki. Nakagawa Tsuneko is my grandmother. A= Miyu Arai T= Tsuneko Nakagawa A: How old were you when the…
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Erica Tanaka
K10, Erica Tanaka ‘02, Emiko Watanabe, Grandmother, 1933,Yokohama: Naka-ku, Kanagawa: Hakone-machi, Miyagi On the evening of November 5, 2000, I interviewed Mrs Emiko Watanabe, my maternal grandmother. She explained in detail her experiences and her memories of World War II. She is 67 years old presently, and therefore she was in grade school, eight years…
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Lynn Stevenson Hatayama
S06U, Lynn Stevenson Hatayama ‘18, Seiichi Hatayama, Grandfather, 1941, Terue Hatayama, Grandmother, 1942, Nagano, Kanagawa-ken: Odawara I interviewed both of my maternal grandparents separately on October 30, 2016, at their house. Seiichi Hatayama, 75 years old, is my grandfather. First I asked him how old he was during World War II and the U.S. Occupation,…