Author: Glenn Scoggins
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Sayo Kondō
H14, Sayo Kondō ‘00, Haru Kirioka, Grandmother, 1915, Tōkyō, Niigata On November 15th 1998 I interviewed my maternal grandmother, Haru Kirioka, who is 83 years old. I asked her about her experiences during World War II and what happened to her after the war. My grandmother was living in Tōkyō before the war with her…
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Aya Kurasawa
G05, Aya Kurasawa ‘99, Masa Maekawa, Neighbor, 1923, Niigata, Tōkyō Mrs Masa Maekawa is a 74-year-old woman who is a neighbor of mine. She lives with her married son, since her husband passed away a few years ago. Although I was not familiar with her, she and my mother became friends, so she arranged a…
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Daniel Bissonnette
H01U, Daniel Bissonnette ‘00, George Tanaka, Family friend, 1925, United States George Tanaka, a family friend who is staying at my grandmother’s house in California, agreed to be interviewed by telephone on his experiences in a relocation camp during the Second World War. George Tanaka, a second-generation Japanese-American, was relocated to a camp in southwest…
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Maria Imai
H10, Maria Imai ‘00, Toshiko Endō, Friend’s grandmother, 1920, Tōkyō I chose to interview my friend’s grandmother. She is 78 years old and was a participant in World War II in Japan. I asked her some questions about what it was like to take part in a terrifying, tragic period of history. She was reluctant…
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Denise Eilers
H03U, Denise Eilers ‘00, Grandmother, 1928, Tōkyō On November 11, 1998, I interviewed my maternal grandmother about World War II. She is about 70 years old and was about 19 years old when she experienced this tragedy. Denise (D): Where did you live during the war? Grandmother (G): I lived in Tōkyō. We lived in…
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Naho Yamada
J11, Naho Yamada ‘01, Masako Yamada, Grandmother, 1925,Yokohama: Naka-ku I interviewed my paternal grandmother, Masako Yamada, who is 74 years old, at my house on Friday night, October 29, 1999. Until 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were conquering the Asia-Pacific area rapidly. But after the Battle of Midway took place in June 1942, when…
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Yukika Furuya
H05, Yukika Furuya ‘00, Ayako Suzuki, Grandmother, 1928, Nara On Saturday, November 14, 1998, I went to my grandparents’ house in Zushi and interviewed my maternal grandmother. Her name is Ayako Suzuki, She was born in 1928. She is now 70 years old. When I went to visit, my grandmother did not know that I…
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Sayako Huff
H08U, Sayako Huff ‘00, Namie Hasegawa, Grandmother 1936 On November 13, 1998, I interviewed my grandmother. Her name is Namie Hasegawa, and she was born on September 13, 1936, so she was almost nine when World War II ended. I had heard war stories from my grandfather and how terrible it was. He had volunteered…
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Hitomi Ina
H11, Hitomi Ina ‘00, Tomiyo Watanabe, Grandmother, 1921, Fukuoka, Kumamoto I interviewed my maternal grandmother, Tomiyo Watanabe. She is 77 years old this year. The topic of this interview is World War II, also called the Pacific War in Japan. The interview took place in my grandmother’s house in Kawasaki. My grandmother was in her…
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Asako Kanzaki
H12, Asako Kanzaki ‘00, Toshinori Kurata, 1928, Korea, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi Q: When and where were you born? A: I was born on February 18 in 1928, in Pyong’an-Pukdo (in Japanese called Heian-Kokudō), which is now North Korea. Q: Tell me about your family. A: There were 10 members in my family including myself. I had…