ロイ・T・イトウ
(Roy T. Ito)
ロイ・「リロイ」・イトウは、1929 年 9 月 1 日にカリフォルニア州ロサンゼルスで生まれました。1942 年 4 月、彼と家族はカリフォルニア州アルカディアのサンタアニタ集合センターに避難させられ、その後、その年の後半にコロラド州グラナダのアマチ移住センターに移されました。1945 年にロサンゼルスに戻り、高校を卒業し、1951 年に UCLA を卒業し、その後南カリフォルニア大学で行政学の修士号を取得しました。彼は 33 年間、ロサンゼルス郡政府でさまざまな行政職に就き、1987 年に退職しました。彼は数年間、日系アメリカ人国立博物館でボランティアとして働き、さまざまな博物館プロジェクト、特にロサンゼルスの農産物産業における日本人の歴史に関する口述歴史を収集してきました。
2008年12月更新
この執筆者によるストーリー
The Summer I Grew Up - Part 2
2008年12月25日 • ロイ・T・イトウ
>> Part 1After a few days, I went to the Social Security office to obtain a Social Security card because I had learned that you had to have a card to be employed and I wanted to work. I obtained the card under an alias because I wasn’t supposed to work on my visitor’s pass from camp and also I was under age to be working. I chose the name Fred Itano because it was short and easy to remember. …
The Summer I Grew Up - Part 1
2008年12月24日 • ロイ・T・イトウ
I decided to go over to the Hikawa’s place on the other side of the block about 10:15 in the morning after school let out for the summer. I had been living in Amache since being “relocated” to southeastern Colorado from Santa Anita Assembly Center, California three years earlier. A lot had changed in three years. As a 13 year old, everything was new and different. Having come from a white middle class neighborhood in West Central Los Angeles, I …
Naotaro and Tsuruko, My Issei Parents - Part 3
2008年12月6日 • ロイ・T・イトウ
>> Part 2In the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, the family heard radio reports of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but went about carrying on as usual not realizing what profound effect this event would have on their lives. Not knowing what else to do, Emi and Takeshi walked to the movie theatre at Washington Boulevard and Vermont Avenue to see the afternoon show. When they returned, the family was about ready to have dinner. After dinner, Hiroshi, …
Naotaro and Tsuruko, My Issei Parents - Part 2
2008年11月28日 • ロイ・T・イトウ
>> Part 1In the years following, the couple lived very frugally and carefully saved practically every dollar they earned, hoping for a good business opportunity. Naotaro worked as a cook at Booz Brothers Cafeteria on Hill Street and Third. Also working there were Matsushi Naruse and Senenmon Tsunekawa both men also of Aiichi Prefecture and equally anxious to start a business. Noticing the volume of business at Grand Central Market which was adjacent to Booz Brothers, all three men leased …
Naotaro and Tsuruko, My Issei Parents - Part 1
2008年11月21日 • ロイ・T・イトウ
Naotaro Ito was born in 1886 as a second son to a rice farming family in Kitsuneji, a tiny rural hamlet in Aiichi Prefecture, near Nagoya, Japan. He received a basic elementary education then was sent to a bicycle shop merchant to serve as an apprentice in his early teens since only the eldest son was slated to inherit the farm, according to long standing custom (primogeniture). At the age of eighteen, circa 1904, he decided to immigrate to America …
