Wartime Memories

Country: Mongolia

  • Irwine Chang

    A01C, Irwine Chang ‘85, Mother, c 1933, China, Hyōgo The following are my mother’s memories of her wartime experiences. I interviewed her in May 1984. She is 51 years old now and was born around 1933. I came to Japan when I was four years old. I was born in Guangzhou [Canton], but because of…

  • Sakura Sugibayashi

    E15, Sakura Sugibayashi ‘94, Kuni Yamanaka, Grandmother, 1915, Yokohama: Naka-ku, Midori-ku, Mongolia I interviewed my maternal grandmother at her shop, on December 2, 1992. She is 77 years old and was born in 1915. Q: How old were you during World War II?A: Let’s see . . . I was about 26 when the war…