Prefecture: Wakayama
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Ayako Kimura
E09, Ayako Kimura ‘94, Chieko Kusunoki, Grandmother, 1923, Wakayama In November 1992, I asked my maternal grandmother to tell me about her memories of World War II. She was born in 1923 and will turn 70 next year. Q: What was the first signal or incident that you remember about the beginning of the war?…
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Yuriya Miyako
R02, Yuriya Miyako ‘16, Chiyo Miyako, Great-Grandmother, 1901, Manchuria, Wakayama I interviewed Chiyo Miyako at her elder-care home on November 9, 2014. She is 113 years old. She is my paternal great-grandmother, but I will refer to her as “Grandma,” since that is what I call her. [Before her death at the age of 117…
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Marika Yo
L16C, Marika Yo ‘04, Yo (Yu) Aiko, Grandmother, 1929, Ōsaka, Wakayama I interviewed my grandmother on November 9, 2002, at my house. She is 73 years old now. When the war started, my grandmother was in fifth grade. She is a Chinese who was born in Japan and has lived in Japan for her whole…