Wartime Memories

Tag: 1936

  • Hiroko Maru

    A06, Hiroko Maru ‘85, Sumie Maru, Mother, 1936,  Aomori In 1984, I interviewed my mother about her wartime memories. She was born in 1936 and is now 48 years old. Q: How old were you when World War II started? A: I was five when the war started and eight by the time it ended.…

  • Lok Shung Lau

    B03C, Lok Shung Lau ‘86, Chang Chin-Tao, Mother, 1936, Yokohama: Naka-ku, Nagano I asked my mother about her memories of World War II. She was born in 1936, and she is now 49 years old. Q: How old were you during the war? A: I was about nine when the bombing of Yokohama occurred [on…

  • Reira (Layla) Ichima

    N01, Reira (Layla) Ichima ‘07, Mineko Shiina, Grandmother, 1936, Yasuo Shiina, Grandfather, 1934, Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki My maternal grandmother, Mineko Shiina, is 69 years old. She was born on January 23, 1936. On October 25, 2005, I interviewed her at her house in Yōkōdai, Isogo-ku, Yokohama. Layla (L): How old were you when World War…

  • Takashi Kitao

    T01, Takashi Kitao ‘19, Kazuaki Takai, Grandfather, 1936, Aomori, Yokohama: Nishi-ku I interviewed my maternal grandfather, Kazuaki Takai, on October 17, 2017. He was born in 1936 and is 81 years old. Q: How old were you when the Pearl Harbor attack happened? A. Five years old. Q. Did you seek refuge during the bombing…

  • Freddie Jinzaki

    M01C, Freddie Jinzaki ‘06, Grandmother, 1936, Hyōgo My grandmother was born in 1936 and experienced the war when she was in elementary school. She lived in Kōbe, as the oldest child of her family, and she remembers quite a lot about this time period. She remembers very clearly the keihō warning sirens. There were two…

  • Maverick Cheong

    U01Sg, Maverick Cheong ‘20, Cheong Kiah Seng, Grandfather, 1936, Singapore I interviewed my paternal grandfather, Cheong Kiah Seng, on October 28, 2018. He was born in 1936, and he is 82 years old now. He told me about his experiences during World War II by telephone from his home in Singapore. We spoke in Mandarin.…

  • Shamin Haga

    L03U, Shamin Haga ‘04, Shōko Narita, Friend’s grandmother, 1936, Aomori I interviewed my friend’s grandmother on November 9, 2002. Her name is Shōko Narita. She was about five years old when the war started, and she told me about the harsh, severe lives people lived during those days. Q: Where and when were you born?…

  • Sayako Huff

    H08U, Sayako Huff ‘00, Namie Hasegawa, Grandmother 1936 On November 13, 1998, I interviewed my grandmother. Her name is Namie Hasegawa, and she was born on September 13, 1936, so she was almost nine when World War II ended. I had heard war stories from my grandfather and how terrible it was. He had volunteered…