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1. Memories of the Japanese Hospital (English/Japanese)

2. The Closing of the Japanese Hospital (English / Japanese)

3. The Secret to Youth (Japanese)

4. The Father who started the Rafu Shimpo (Japanese)

Inose,Yoshiko

(b.1908) Daugther of the first publisher of the Rafu Shimpo

The Secret to Youth (Japanese)

(Japanese) I am 101 years old.

I*: What is the secret to your youth?

I taught tea for a long time, so I was always alert because of that. I’m already retired now, but tea still comes up all the time. I think I’m probably still healthy because I do things like that. I think it’s good to be doing something even though you get older. In addition to that, everyone – my son, my daughters, my grandchildren – everyone is good to me, and so I’m always happy. I think that also has something to do with it.

* "I" indicates an interviewer (Yoko Nishimura).

Date: February 3, 2010

Location: California, US

Interviewer: Eiko Masuyama, Carole Fujita, Yoko Nishimura

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

Interviewee Bio

Mrs. Yoshiko Inose (nee Shibuya) was born in Los Angeles, California in 1908. Her father, Seijiro Shibuya, was the first publisher of The Rafu Shimpo. In the early 1930s, Yoshiko married Seijiro Inose, the adopted son of Inosuke Inose. Yoshiko’s father-in-law Inosuke was the president of the first Japanese Hospital, near Little Tokyo called Nanka Nihon Byoin or Southern California Japanese Hospital, located on Amelia and Turner Streets. (April 11, 2010)

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