Interviews
Nomo's impact on later Japanese players
Kuroda, Saito, and everybody else that followed behind him, I think it really made them comfortable or confident about performing the major leagues, and a lot of those guys I’ve talked to personally about this, basically they told me that because Nomo-san did it, we knew that there might be a chance, that we could succeed there. And it kind of basically called him a bridge across the Pacific. He built the bridge and we were just able to go across it and you can tell even Kuroda, you can talk to him today and he’ll tell you right now, “if Hideo Nomo wasn’t here probably I wouldn’t be here either.”
Date: March 21, 2014
Location: California, US
Interviewer: Mark Langill
Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum
Explore More Videos
The Nomo Tornado in 1995 (Japanese)
Producer at NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc.
How the Dodgers internationalized MLB (Japanese)
Producer at NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc.
Respecting the will of a five-year-old daughter (Japanese)
(b. 1925) War bride
The Kids and Japanese Language (Japanese)
(b. 1937) A war bride from Yokohama
Change of identity (Japanese)
(b. 1979) Sansei Nikkei Brazilian who lives in Oizumi-machi in Gunma prefecture. He runs his own design studio.
The term Nikkei (Japanese)
(b. 1979) Sansei Nikkei Brazilian who lives in Oizumi-machi in Gunma prefecture. He runs his own design studio.
On becoming a Japanese national (Japanese)
(b. 1979) Sansei Nikkei Brazilian who lives in Oizumi-machi in Gunma prefecture. He runs his own design studio.
Attitudes toward Hikiagesha
(b. 1938) Philipines-born hikiagesha who later migrated to the United States.
First Impressions of the US
(b. 1938) Philipines-born hikiagesha who later migrated to the United States.
Unique Identity from Having Multiple Backgrounds
(b. 1938) Philipines-born hikiagesha who later migrated to the United States.
Benefits of getting American citizenship (Japanese)
(b. 1931) Shin-Issei Social Worker
Wanting to serve authentic nigiri sushi in America (Japanese)
(b. 1949) Sushi chef. Owner of Sushi Gen restaurant in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo.
Difficulty of spreading authentic sushi (Japanese)
(b. 1949) Sushi chef. Owner of Sushi Gen restaurant in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo.
Teaching how to eat sushi (Japanese)
(b. 1949) Sushi chef. Owner of Sushi Gen restaurant in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo.
Presenting nebuta from hometown Aomori at Nisei Week (Japanese)
(b. 1949) Sushi chef. Owner of Sushi Gen restaurant in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo.