Entrevistas

1. Coming to California

2. Learning Japanese with the MIS

3. Meeting Hamako in Japan

4. Miscommunications

5. Writing Letters

6. Meeting Mr. Amano

7. Marriage and Returning to US

8. Reception of Hamako by family

Schneider,Harry

(1916 - 2013) Miembro del Servicio de Inteligencia Militar de los Estados Unidos

Miscommunications

I asked if she would meet me in Kamakura again, to see the Daibutsu I guess, that's how it happened. And so I...the next couple—it was a week later anyway—we were to meet again in Kamakura. I came all the way from Kamakura and I went to the meeting place and no Hamako—she didn't show up. So I got real mad to be stand—stood off by a Japanese girl and so it happened that she couldn't help it, she wrote a letter to me and...at this building where I was located in Japan, I mean in Tokyo...oh gosh I wish I could remember it. But anyway, the letter was intercepted by the army and the letter said, something...I couldn't make it this week that we had the date and...but I didn't know because the army would not allow any correspondence between officers and enemy people—which the Japanese were at that time—considered.

And so, let's see I don't know how she came and apologized, she showed me the letter that was sent back to her—the army intercepted it and sent back to her—so she showed me the letter and so I couldn't get mad then so from then on we dated.

fuerzas armadas militares personal militar en retiro Ejército de los Estados Unidos veteranos Segunda Guerra Mundial

Fecha: January 26, 2012

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: John Esaki, Yoko Nishimura

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Harry Schneider (n. 1916) fue miembro del Servicio de Inteligencia Militar de los Estados Unidos destacado en Tokio. Aunque Harry no era japonés, al principio fue reclutado para el programa de entrenamiento del Servicio de Inteligencia Militar (M.I.S., por sus siglas en inglés) en San Francisco por sus competencias administrativas. Sin embargo, luego se sintió motivado por aprender japonés con los otros soldados nisei. En 1948 se casó con su esposa Hamako poco después que acabara la segunda guerra mundial. Al final de la guerra, se requirió una legislación especial para que una “novia de guerra” asiática sea admitida en los Estados Unidos. En 1950, Harry y Hamako se casaron nuevamente en el Consulado Japonés en Tokio, de modo que pudieron ser una de las primeras parejas autorizadas para ingresar al país. Harry falleció a la edad de 97 años en junio del 2013. (Junio del 2014)