Entrevistas

1. Four sisters had international marriages (Japanese)

2. Disrespectful Child (Japanese)

3. Discrimination faced in San Francisco (Japanese)

4. Missing Home (Japanese)

5. The Kids and Japanese Language (Japanese)

6. Regret (Japanese)

7. How she met her husband (Japanese)

8. Public views on marriage with non-Caucasian (Japanese)

Calloway,Terumi Hisamatsu

(n. 1937) Novia de guerra de Yokohama

The Kids and Japanese Language (Japanese)

(Japanese) I had 4 children. Girl, boy, girl, boy in that perfect order. I was lucky. Two of them were born in Japan, and the other two were born in California.

I did want them to speak Japanese, so I wrote the Japanese phonetics and put it on the wall to teach them in the beginning. Eventually they forgot, or rather… There was a Japanese language school in Santa Maria. We took the kids there on Saturdays. But back then I was working at a tailor. The owner had moved to Los Angeles and I took over the store, which made it impossible for me to take my kids to Japanese school on Saturdays. My husband helped in the beginning, but they quit eventually. They kind of stopped speaking Japanese, so they can’t really speak.

niños educación japoneses idiomas

Fecha: February 6, 2015

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: Izumi Tanaka

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

La quinta hija de diez niños, Terumi Hisamatsu Calloway nació en 1937 en Yokohama y creció en los suburbios de Tokio durante la guerra. Conoció a Edward. E. Calloway, quien era un ingeniero civil que trabajaba en la base militar estadounidense en Tokio, y se casó con él. En 1960, luego de tener 2 hijos, Terumi se mudó a los Estados Unidos con su familia y se estableció en el Área de la Bahía en donde tuvo dos hijos más. Más tarde, se mudaron al área de Lompoc en donde sus 4 hijos -2 niñas y 2 niños- crecieron. En 1977, se mudaron a Inglewood en donde ella reside ahora. Terumi enviudó en el 2009, y actualmente trabaja como niñera. (Abril de 2016)