Susan Yamamura
@susanySusan Yamamura was born in Seattle, WA in 1940. She and her family were sent to Camp Harmony, WA and Camp Minidoka, ID. She graduated from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1962. She first worked as a computer programmer at Space Technology Labs in Redondo Beach, CA and later at the Boeing Co in Seattle. Susan retired from managing a computer and graphics lab in the Chemistry Department at the University of Arizona in 1997.
She had a son with Hank Yamamura; Hank passed away in 2008. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Updated April 2020
Stories from This Author
Minoru Tamesa: The Quiet Man Who Came to Dinner - Part 2
April 12, 2017 • Susan Yamamura
Read Part 1 >> Last year, I googled “Minoru Tamesa.” I can’t remember why. I was startled to find a picture of him as a young man, looking a bit like a “tough guy,” nothing like the quiet, prematurely aged, sensitive, almost fragile-looking man who came to dinner. Believing there might be few still alive who knew the middle-aged Min, I decided to share my memories of the man on Discover Nikkei’s Facebook page, hoping that others with more memories of …
Minoru Tamesa: The Quiet Man Who Came to Dinner - Part 1
April 11, 2017 • Susan Yamamura
When I was a little girl, Minoru Tamesa was, to me, the quiet man who came to Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. The holiday meals were held in our home in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle after we got out of the World War II incarceration camps. I’m sure Minoru’s father, Uhachi, came with him, but I don’t remember Uhachi from those dinners. I do, however, remember the incomparably beautiful and delicious peaches he gave us—huge, golden, orange-and-red-hued globes of …
