I tried to sell my car in Florida. While searching for Kato Shinichi's relatives, I was lucky enough to come across his nephew, Junji Yoshida, in Tosaka Senashi, Higashi Ward, Hiroshima City in March 2020. Yoshida, who worked in construction, was the eldest son of Kato's younger sister, Harue, and …
Visiting the former address Now that I have been able to summarize the life of Kato Shinichi from the profile article, which can be considered a self-introduction in "A Centennial History of Japanese Americans in the United States," and his obituary in the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper on February 10, 1982, …
According to the Chugoku Shimbun serial article "The Atomic Bomb and the Chugoku Shimbun" (March to May 2012), at the time the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Kato Shinichi was the head of the news department for the Chugoku Shimbun. He walked around the city on the day of …
If you want to know more about a person, it is common to first check with his relatives. In his profile in the book "The Centennial History of Japanese Americans in the United States," which he wrote and edited, Shinichi Kato mentions his wife and children. Since his wife is …
From 1900 to 1961 In "A Hundred Years of Immigration to America," published in Japan in 1962 based on "A Hundred Years of Japanese Americans in the United States: Records of Development" published in 1961, author Kato Shinichi wrote in the preface that he had just entered junior high school …
If you search for "Kato Shinichi" I learned that Shinichi Kato, who covered the footsteps of Japanese immigrants to the US mainland and compiled them into a book called "The Centennial History of Japanese Americans in the US," drove around the US alone, but the details of his journey were …
"A Hundred Years of Japanese Americans in the United States" (published in December 1961), edited by Shinichi Kato, traces the footsteps of Japanese Americans in the mainland of the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. Many pages are devoted to states along the Pacific coast where many Japanese emigrated and …
We know that Japanese people are living all over the world these days. But when we see or hear about these immigrants and settlers on television programs, we sometimes feel simple questions and surprises, such as "Why are there Japanese people in places like this?" and "Why is this person …
In 1960, a man drove around the US to follow in the footsteps of the first generation of Japanese immigrants. At the end of the following year, Kato Shinichi (then 61 years old) compiled his account of his experiences into a book called " A Hundred Years of Japanese Americans …
Read Part 1 >> Take time to get to know each other Suwa-san's impression of Suketsugu was that he was "a really nice and kind person." But he was secretly astonished by his appearance. He was wearing a dirty shirt and shorts, had unkempt thinning hair, and a shaggy beard …
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