Wartime Memories

Tag: Nagano

  • Cheri Holmes

    B02U, Cheri Holmes ‘86, Great-aunt, 1912,   Nagano, Yokohama: Kanagawa-ku I interviewed my grandmother’s sister in May 1985. She is 73 years old, and she lives near my house in Kogaya, Kanagawa-ku. I wanted to preserve her memories of the war. Q: Where were you during the war, and how awful was it? A: I was…

  • Aileen Jo

    D02C, Aileen Jo ‘91, “Anyan,” Grandmother, c 1924, Hyōgo, Nagano, China, Yokohama: Naka-ku In November 1989, I asked my grandmother (whom I call “Anyan”) about her wartime memories. She was a teenager and young adult during the worst years of the war.  Q: Anyan, I’d like to ask you some questions about your experiences during…

  • David Sancho

    E14Sp, David Sancho ‘94, Tamaho Shimizu, Grandmother, 1918, Nagano, Kanagawa: Kawasaki-shi I interviewed my maternal grandmother at Honmoku Hospital in Yokohama, in November 1992. She was born in 1918 and is 74 years old. Q: Where were you living during the war?A: I lived in Kawasaki, but I moved back to my hometown, Komoro in…

  • Anzu Hoshino

    F02, Anzu Hoshino ‘97, Grandmother, 1930, Nagano In December 1995, I interviewed my grandmother, who is 65 years old. When she was seven years old, a war broke between China and Japan, and it continued into World War II. I asked her how she felt during the war and what she was doing at that…

  • Tomoe Endō

    H04U, Tomoe Endō ‘00, Shizue Osias, Grandmother, 1928, Toshiko Endō, Grandmother, 1920, Yokohama: Minami-ku, Shizuoka, Tōkyō, Nagano I interviewed both of my grandmothers about their experiences during World War II. Shizue Sugitō Osias is now 70 years old. She was 17 years old when she heard the air raid alarms in Yokohama and she was…

  • 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”…

  • Rio Yanaga

    W05, Rio Yanaga ‘22, Masahiko Yanaga, Grandfather, c 1935, Kunika Yanaga, Grandmother, c 1935, Tōkyō, Nagano, China I asked my paternal grandparents to talk about their memories of World War II. They were both about ten years old when the war ended in 1945. I interviewed them in November 2020, seventy-five years later. Q: Could…

  • 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…

  • 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,…