Country: Korea
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Sylvia Leiser
C03SwC, Sylvia Leiser ‘87, Chen Suzue, Grandmother, Hong Kong, Manchuria, Korea, Yamaguchi In May 1986, I interviewed my grandmother about her experiences during World War II. Her name is Suzue Chen. My grandmother was Japanese, but after she married my grandfather from Taiwan, she became a Chinese citizen. Q: Where were you when the war broke…
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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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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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Yumi Moriguchi
K05, Yumi Moriguchi ‘02, Fumiko Nakano, Grandmother, 1913, China, Korea, Nagasaki, Yokohama: Naka-ku On November 5, 2000, I interviewed my grandmother, Fumiko Nakano, who is 87 years old. My grandmother wasn’t directly involved in combat in World War II, because she was living in Kyūshū, but she had an interesting experience in China before the…
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Colin Novick
H15U, Colin Novick ‘00, Teruko Satō, Neighbor, 1904, Kanagawa: Hayama-machi, Hokkaidō, Korea, Australia On November 14, 1998, I spoke with Mrs Teruko Satō, who turned 94 years old on August 23rd. She now lives in Hayama with her niece. Her life has been very interesting and probably not the life of an average Japanese woman…
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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…
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Haruko Wakabayashi
A09U, Haruko Wakabayashi ‘85, Toshio Nishioka, Grandfather, c 1923, Kanagawa: Ōiso-machi, China, Korea I interviewed my maternal grandfather in May 1984. He was born around 1923 and turned sixty last year. Q: I would like to ask you first about the conscription (draft) system. A: I got a small red paper called akagami. It said which unit…