Prefecture: Gifu
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Yūko Hayashi
E05C, Yūko Hayashi ‘94 , Yoshie Hayashi (Lin), Grandmother, 1922, Gifu World War II was the most frightful experience in my grandmother’s whole life, which she endured at a young age, and for me it was painful to interview her. Her testimony was so much more realistic than reading facts and information in a textbook.…
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Lisa Ferrie
L02U, Lisa Ferrie ‘04, Kisaburō Matsuda, Neighbor, 1925, Tōkyō, Gifu, Kanagawa: Yokosuka-shi I interviewed Kisaburō Matsuda, who was born in 1925 and is 77 years old. He is my neighbor and a friend of my mother. Q: How old were you when the war started? A: I was sixteen years old when it started, but…
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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…