Entrevistas

1. Early Childhood

2. The meaning of his middle name Yaichio

3. Discrimination in San Francisco

4. Life in Yamato Colony

5. Social life in Livingston versus San Francisco

6. Becoming head of the family at age 8

7. Advice from his mother

8. Attending San Francisco City College

9. Celebrating his birthday on December 7, 1941

10. Starting a YMCA program in camp

11. Leaving Topaz

12. Leaving a camp to attend college

13. Getting a job in Honolulu

14. Feeling free and accepted in Hawaii

15. Getting fired from a job

16. Marriage and Family

17. Becoming involved at JANM

18. Volunteering at JANM

19. Defining “Nikkei”

Hoshiyama,Fred Y.

(1914-2015) Líder nisei de la YMCA y de la comunidad japonesa americana

Marriage and Family

I did get married late. I got married when I was 34 years of age. I did get a younger wife however, but I was lucky to find somebody who is willing to say, “yes.” It took me a long time. But I – so she said, “yes,” I think I met her and I got married within six months. I didn’t want to lose Irene, so we tied it down. It was tied good, because we have been 56 - 57 years now, and we are happy together. And she still tried to change me a little bit here and there, but she is succeeding pretty well.

Now, I – when I first got my daughter - the first child, in 1952, I became a father for the first time. That was a tremendously, wonderful experience for me. Because for the first time I realized that I’m now part of God’s world. That, I’m part of that many parents that help keep the world going, and part of that of process of continuation, of perpetuity. So I felt a distinct being part of that process, and God’s world. When Matthew came in 1957, a son, that was another good experience for me. I feel very good. I wanted to have more children, but my wife thought two was enough, and so...usually if you want a happy marriage life, you have to agree with your wife more often than disagree, I learned.

familias matrimonios

Fecha: March 4, 2005

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: Florence Ochi, Art Hansen, Yoko Nishimura

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Fred Yaichio Hoshiyama fue el primero de seis niños nacidos de trabajadores agrícolas inmigrantes issei, quienes fueron miembros de la pionera Colonia Yamato de Livingston, California. Su padre murió cuando él solo tenía ocho años de edad, y su familia luchó para conservar su granja, la cual eventualmente perdieron por lo que se mudaron a San Francisco en 1929. Tras obtener el grado de Bachiller en Artes de la Universidad de California, Berkeley en 1941, fue confinado en el “Campo de Reubicación” Topaz, Utah en 1942, con miles de otros japoneses americanos inocentes –víctimas de su parecido racial con el enemigo que había atacado la Base Naval Estadounidense en Pearl Harbor, Hawái.

Aun en confinamiento, Fred continuó su relación de por vida con la YMCA (Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes), ayudando a establecer los muy necesarios programas recreacionales, educacionales y sociales. Luego de ser anticipadamente puesto en libertad de Topaz para obtener su Maestría de la Universidad de Springfield en Massachusetts, trabajó como director del programa juvenil de la YMCA en Honolulu antes de regresar a California, en donde continuó trabajando en programas juveniles urbanos. De 1976 a 1983 ayudó a formar la Asociación Nacional de Estudiantes YMCA. En retiro, él contribuyó con su experiencia y conocimiento en la planificación financiera, desarrollo y gestión en varias organizaciones sin fines de lucro. (Febrero de 2016)