Entrevistas

1. The Origin of my Name (Japanese)

2. Attending Kindergarten in Panama (Japanese)

3. My father who returned by prisoner of war exchange ship (Japanese)

4. Meeting Harry for the first time (Japanese)

5. On international marriages (Japanese)

6. Masao-san (Japanese)

7. Conflicted about immigrating to America (Japanese)

8. You can’t be loyal to two countries (Japanese)

9. Respecting the will of a five-year-old daughter (Japanese)

10. Why I’m glad I immigrated to America (Japanese)

Schneider,Jean Hamako

(n. 1925)A noiva de guerra

Meeting Harry for the first time (Japanese)

(Japanese) I had gone to Kamakura to undergo eye surgery. I had heard that there was a good eye doctor there, so I went. I have…what would you call it…inverse eyelashes? Normal eyelashes grow outward, right? Well, mine all grow inward. When I went that time, I met him. It was 1946.

We started talking about how there was a really great place in the area called Enoshima. Then, we started saying,“Hey, actually Enoshima’s right on the way from Kamakura to Fujisawa – that’s really close. Shall we go there?”

He remembers that time well. Eating shellfish cooked whole in its shell really left an impression on him. On my way back, I couldn’t believe what I had done. I’d spoken with a foreigner I’d never even met before and gone off somewhere together to have fun. I couldn’t believe it.

Data: January 26, 2012

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: John Esaki, Yoko Nishimura

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Jean Hamako Schneider (née Amano) nasceu em 1925, em Yokohama. Em 1933, ela foi junto com seu pai, sr. Yoshitaro Amano, ao Panamá, onde ele tinha negócios. Após dois anos, a família retornou ao Japão, mas o sr.Yoshitaro permaneceu lá até 1942, quando retornou ao Japão no navio de troca de prisioneiros. Terminada a guerra, Hamako trabalhou numa emissora de rádio, quando conheceu Harry Schneider, membro do MIS (Serviço de Inteligência Militar) estacionado no Japão. Em 1948, casou-se com Harry no Japão e em 1950 chegou aos Estados Unidos como noiva de guerra. Nasceu-lhe uma filha e logo obteve cidadania americana. Mora atualmente em Encinitas, no estado da Califórnia. (Setembro de 2014)