Prefecture: Hokkaidō
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Kay Tatsumi
C05, Kei (Kay) Tatsumi ‘87, Grandmother, 1919, Tōkyō, Hokkaidō In May 1986, I interviewed my grandmother. She is 67 years old, and she told me about the events of World War II. Q: What did you do when the U.S. planes bombed Tōkyō? A: We all had to dig a hole in the ground, which…
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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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Jun-Hee Lee
N04K, Jun-Hee Lee ‘07, Yōko Itō, Friend’s grandmother, 1930, Hokkaidō I interviewed Yōko Itō, who is the paternal grandmother of my friend Noboru. She now lives in Machida, a city in Tōkyō. Thanks to the Itō family, I was able to meet both of Noboru’s grandparents and have lunch with the family on October 26,…
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Shanti Snyder
G09U, Shanti Snyder ‘99, Kiyoko Matsuzaki, Family friend, 1934, Akita, Hokkaidō Kiyoko Matsuzaki is a good friend of my mother, and I was able to interview her in November 1997. She was born in Akita in 1934 and moved to Hakodate in Hokkaidō, where her mother lived, when she was seven years old in 1941.…
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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…