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Little interaction with parents
James Hirabayashi January 7, 2004
When you ask me about my connections with my parents, at first, you know, when …
Importance of education in achieving redress for incarceration
Grayce Ritsu Kaneda Uyehara August 28, 1998
I feel that the major contribution has to do with the educational process, which is …
Lack of language skills
Jane Aiko Yamano September 3, 2003
At that time, I think Japan was still used to “Foreigners just cannot speak Japanese.” …
Acculturation
Jane Aiko Yamano September 3, 2003
Moving here, looking like a Japanese and not speaking it really felt strange. I think …
Japanese are more accustomed to foreigners
Jane Aiko Yamano September 3, 2003
Because we look Japanese, but we really didn’t know the Japanese customs, the Japanese language…the …
Her experience as a Japanese-American schoolchild in Oceanside, California, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Wakako Nakamura Yamauchi May 22, 1998
I was seventeen, I was a senior in high school. We were making ready; this …
Difficulties understanding different Japanese dialects
Roy H. Matsumoto December 17 & 18, 2003
I am familiar with Hiroshima because everybody talked like that and I grew up with …
Teaching at the military language school during World War II
Richard Kosaki March 19, 2004
My Japanese was quite good in terms of writing and so forth. One of the …
Learning English upon discovering that family could not return to Peru
Art Shibayama October 26, 2003
At that time, Peru wouldn't take us back. They didn't want to take us back …
Playing baseball along with American Nisei and Kibei
Art Shibayama October 26, 2003
And then the other thing is when we went to Seabrook, we made our own …