Tag: 1941
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Kyōko Murata
B08, Kyōko Murata ‘86, Mother, 1941, Manchuria, Chiba My mother was born in 1941, so she was still a little girl when World War II took place. I interviewed her in May 1985. Q: How old were you when World War II ended? A: I was four years old, so I have little memory of…
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Mira (Milla) Ikeda
V01, Mira (Milla) Ikeda ‘21, Reiko Yamamuro, Great-aunt, 1944, Shun’ichi Yamamuro, Great-uncle, 1941, China, Yokohama: Kanagawa-ku, Tōkyō For this oral interview, I interviewed my grandmother’s sister, Reiko Yamamuro, and her husband, Shun’ichi Yamamuro, at their house in Yokohama on October 10th, 2019. Reiko Yamamuro was born in Shanghai in the year 1944, just before the…
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Lynn Stevenson Hatayama
S06U, Lynn Stevenson Hatayama ‘18, Seiichi Hatayama, Grandfather, 1941, Terue Hatayama, Grandmother, 1942, Nagano, Kanagawa-ken: Odawara I interviewed both of my maternal grandparents separately on October 30, 2016, at their house. Seiichi Hatayama, 75 years old, is my grandfather. First I asked him how old he was during World War II and the U.S. Occupation,…
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Louis Hagenbucher
U02U, Louis Hagenbucher ‘20, Grandmother, 1941, Mie On October 23, 2018, I interviewed my grandmother, who currently lives in Ōsaka. She is currently 77 years old. I interviewed her by phone about her past experiences during World War II. She told me that she was four years old when she experienced the war, so her…