Tag: 1935
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Yukie Ohba
B09, Yukie Ōba (Ohba) ‘86, Mother, 1935, Kanagawa: Fujisawa-shi The best way to learn the history of a country is to ask the people who lived through it. To learn more about World War II, I interviewed my mother in May 1985. She was born in 1935, so she was a little girl during the…
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Akiko Shimizu
L15, Akiko Shimizu ‘04, Shōzō Katsuta, Uncle, 1935, Nagano On October 27, 2002, I interviewed my uncle at his house. His name is Shōzō Katsuta, and he is 67 years old. [His father, and Akiko’s grandfather, was Shinsui Itō (1898-1972), a well-known artist of Japanese paintings, called Nihonga.] Question: What did you think about “war”…
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Pamela Bernard
K01B, Pamela Bernard ‘02, Tomohisa Ōishi, Uncle, 1935, Yokohama: Nishi-ku, Kanagawa: Hadano-shi I interviewed Tomohisa Ōishi, who is my uncle, my mother’s oldest brother. He is 65 years old and was born in 1935. During World War II, he lived in a place called Sengen-chō, not far from Yokohama Station in Nishi-ku. When war broke…
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Mayuka Kowaguchi
N03, Mayuka Kowaguchi ‘07, Nobue Uozumi, Grandmother, 1935, Shizuoka My name is Nobue Sakakibara Uozumi, and I am Mayuka Kowaguchi’s grandmother. I was born on November 25, 1935 and was in the fourth grade at the end of World War Il. I came from a wealthy family which ran a liquor store in the city…
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Yuuka Nakasone
N07, Yuuka Nakasone ‘07, Kayoko Nakasone, Grandmother, 1935, Nagano My grandmother, Kayoko Nakasone, was ten years old when World War II ended. She was born in 1935 in Nagano. Because World War II occurred such a long time ago, her memory is not clear. However, she has a general idea of the hardships that she…