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Interviews

1. Yoshitaro Amano, Forced to Return to Japan by Prisoner of War Exchange Ship (Japanese)

2. Yoshitaro Amano, who Attempted to Smuggle himself into South America after the War (Japanese)

3. Yoshitaro Amano who Liked History (Japanese)

4. Yoshitaro Amano’s Business in Japan (Japanese)

5. First Meeting with Yoshitaro Amano (Japanese)

6. Yoshitaro Amano’s Tuna Fishing Boat (Japanese)

7. Yoshitaro Amano, who was Fascinated by the Chancay Culture (Japanese)

8. An Opportunity to Learn more Japanese (Japanese)

9. A Lifestyle Using Both Japanese and Spanish (Japanese)

Amano,Miyoko

(b. 1929) President of Amano Museum

A Lifestyle Using Both Japanese and Spanish (Japanese)

(Japanese) My parents couldn't speak any Spanish at all, just enough to go to work and to employ people at work. Besides that, they only used Spanish when they went to the market to buy things. Plus, I didn’t go to a Japanese girl’s school - I graduated from a Japanese elementary school here, then I went into a Peruvian girl’s school. So, I don’t know which. Partway in both is probably the best place (laughs).

generations languages Nisei Peru

Date: April 18, 2007

Location: Lima, Peru

Interviewer: Ann Kaneko

Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Interviewee Bio

Miyoko Amano (nee: Watanabe) is a Nikkei Nisei born in Lima, Peru. In 1954, she married Yoshitaro Amano, a businessman and a researcher of the Andes Civilization. Taking over the vision of her late husband, she is currently the President of Amano Museum—established from the Yoshitaro’s private collection of artifacts—renowned for its extensive research into the Cancay Culture. (October 2009)

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