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Life in Davao, Philippines
Father went to Philippines, because it was only available country at that time to go either Brazil or Philippine – he chose Philippine. That was May 1, 1937, and then a year later, I was born in Davao, Philippines. It’s a Mindanao Island.
During that time, there were almost like 20,000 Japanese in that community, and they had very extensive cultural activities that is going on, and place, Davao was prosperous with the production of hemp, like ship’s ropes and the potato sacks were made from hemp. And father, after a while, was apprenticing the – making water tanks and roofs in them – other products – out of sheet metal; it’s a galvanized sheet metal. And when he returned, visiting Japan, he became an owner of a shop in – it started to prosper.
Fecha: July 12, 2017
Zona: California, US
Entrevista: Mitsue Watanabe, Yoko Nishimura, Leighton Okada
País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum
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