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Mr. Hori and the Panama Hotel, a Nisei Story - Part 8
2012年10月29日 • ジェニー・ナカオ・ホーンズ
Read Part 7 >> From Mr. Hori’s stories, I tried to imagine camp life in the middle of the Idaho desert. Especially, this being the age of information, I wondered if being interned was like living in total isolation with no news from the outside world. But, my assumptions were very wrong. Mr. Hori informed me that with a population of close to 10,000 residents, the camp published their own paper called The Minidoka Irrigator. It was published for the community …
Mr. Hori and the Panama Hotel, a Nisei Story - Part 7
2012年10月22日 • ジェニー・ナカオ・ホーンズ
Read Part 6 >> In the fall of 1943, the Japanese internees at Puyallup, Washington were bused to the train tracks in Puyallup, and travelled by train to their permanent internment camp called Minidoka Relocation Camp in Hunt, Idaho. On the train ride, Mr. Hori recalls that they had to keep the shades down and were not allowed to look out the windows. I wonder if this was to keep the operation under secrecy. His first impression of Minidoka, was that …
Mr. Hori and the Panama Hotel, a Nisei Story - Part 6
2012年10月15日 • ジェニー・ナカオ・ホーンズ
Read Part 5 >> The government began sending a notice to each family informing them to report with their belongings on a designated day at a specific location. Mr. Hori recalls waiting in line on 8th Avenue and Lane St. and boarded the bus with his family to Puyallup. Puyallup is a city, south of Seattle, about five miles east of Tacoma. The Puyallup fairground is the site for the Puyallup Fair that began in the 1900’s that included special attractions, …
Mr. Hori and the Panama Hotel, a Nisei Story - Part 5
2012年10月8日 • ジェニー・ナカオ・ホーンズ
Read Part 4 >> In early 1942, the US government plastered the telephone poles with posters stating that all Japanese living within a certain boundary were to report to the government office by certain date in March and the Japanese were to be evacuated from the city. The Japanese newspapers also cooperated with the government because many of the Issei, Japanese immigrants, couldn’t read English. No one knew what was going on and because of this sudden announcement, there was obviously …
Mr. Hori and the Panama Hotel, a Nisei Story - Part 4
2012年10月1日 • ジェニー・ナカオ・ホーンズ
Read Part 3 >> Sunday, December 7, 1941 the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor and the following day, President Roosevelt gave his famous Infamy Speech, declaring war against Japan. Although Seattle is a good distance away from Hawaii, life in Japantown started to change. Announcements to the citizens were distributed through newspaper extras and short wave radio. The first notice was the limited usage of light. In the evening, everything had to be pitch black; they were all told to pull down …
Mr. Hori and the Panama Hotel, a Nisei Story - Part 3
2012年9月24日 • ジェニー・ナカオ・ホーンズ
Read Part 2 >> Running the apartment house on 6th and Colombia whilst attending Broadway HS was busy work for the young Takashi but because his parent’s limited English, he had to assist them with the business. Upon graduating high school, he decided to attend the University of Washington to study accounting. Only a handful of his friends went to college for due to the depression there was no work. Furthermore, many who did go to college were met with discrimination. …
Mr. Hori and the Panama Hotel, a Nisei Story - Part 2
2012年9月17日 • ジェニー・ナカオ・ホーンズ
Read Part 1 >> Sanjiro and Toyo Hori had four children: Toyome born in 1916, Takashi (1918), Fukashi (1921) and Aiko (1926). Although, they lived in America, Takashi, as the first born son in a Japanese family, was responsible to carry on the family business. The meshiya that Sanjiro bought was located in a typical old shop house in Japantown with the business in the front and living quarters in the back. In this particular shop house, the upper floors were …
Mr. Hori and the Panama Hotel, a Nisei Story - Part 1
2012年9月10日 • ジェニー・ナカオ・ホーンズ
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is a historical fiction novel about a little love story between a Chinese boy and Japanese girl during the 1940’s Japanese internment of WWII based in Seattle, Washington. As you can imagine, it’s a popular choice for book clubs where I live because you can actually visit the places mentioned in the book, especially the Panama Hotel on 605½ Main Street, Seattle, WA. Yes, it really has a ½ in the address! …
