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Grandmother's influence on decision to go to Japan
Robert (Bob) Kiyoshi Okasaki November 28, 2003
I think it’s my grandmother that made me come to Japan. As I said, my …
Having patience in Japan, being both
Jane Aiko Yamano September 3, 2003
I try to pick up the good points from the American side and the good …
Lack of notion of citizenship in Japan
Yukio Takeshita September 11, 2003
Japanese people don’t understand about citizenship. Even if I say I’m a Japanese American, they’ll …
Being on the outside
Wayne Shigeto Yokoyama November 13, 2003
It was interesting to be in a place where all these Japanese were because all …
Larry designing chairs in the camp
Grace Aiko Nakamura September 9, 2011
Next morning when we got up from these iron beds, on this old terrible mattress, …
Trying to get back into camp
William Hohri June 12, 1998
Well, my worst day occurred when I actually had left camp, and I tried to …
Camp stories impact on her career
Holly J. Fujie July 11, 2019
When I was growing up I never heard about it. Back in the 50s and …
A personality fit for Argentina (Japanese)
Masaki Tamashiro 2006
(Japanese) When I think about it now, in Argentina, in Buenos Aires, there aren’t many …
Going to Brazil to escape debt (Japanese)
Shunji Nishimura
(Japanese) I graduated engineering school. My father owned a methane factory—he started a company that …
Early life in Brazil (Japanese)
Shunji Nishimura
(Japanese) Copeiro (butler) and Jardineiro (gardener) [were my first jobs]. So [I worked] from 5 …