Entrevistas

1. Life in Davao, Philippines

2. Kindergarten in Davao, Philippines

3. Evacuated to the Jungle

4. Captured by Guerillas after bombing of Pearl Harbor

5. Family was shipped back to Japan after the war

6. Attitudes toward Hikiagesha

7. Move to Los Angeles

8. First Impressions of the US

9. Life in the Philippines

10. Unique Identity from Having Multiple Backgrounds

11. On Nikkei Identity

12. Returning to the Philippines

Uchimura,Sawako Ashizawa

(n. 1938) Hikiagesha nascida nas Filipinas que mais tarde imigrou para os Estados Unidos.

First Impressions of the US

Coming here, the first thing we saw was houses on the hills of Wilmington and San Pedro, and we were just amazed with all those colorful houses, and then huge front lawns of the houses, and the cars – different colors of cars. We only saw like – cars were only black or maroon – real dark maroon in Japan. And when we had a chance to see them, what was like in relatives’ home, we were amazed, like refrigerator, washing machine, sewing machine – electric sewing machine, and then television, that it’s inside the house, you know. That was, like amazing also. So many electrical things that we did not have. A washing machine wasn’t – even the one that you rode to squeeze was amazing to us. And just – everything we saw was like eye-popper. And also freeway was another huge surprise, and then the mountains, without hardly trees, and all brown and bare. There’s no mountain like that in Japan.

migração Estados Unidos da América

Data: July 12, 2017

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: Mitsue Watanabe, Yoko Nishimura, Leighton Okada

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Sawako Ashizawa Uchimura nasceu em Davao, Mindanao, Filipinas, em 25 de março de 1938, como a primeira filha de Katsujiro e Ura "Mie" Ashizawa. Ela tinha 7 anos em 1945, quando sua família teve que deixar as Filipinas após a derrota do Japão na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sua família viveu em Shizuoka durante os 10 anos seguintes. Mais tarde, a família recebeu o status de residente nos Estados Unidos e chegou a Los Angeles em março de 1956. Sawako foi para a Alhambra High School e depois estudou em Pasadena City College. Ela finalmente encontrou um mentor generoso que ajudou a apoiá-la através de sua educação na Universidade do Estado de San Jose e tornou-se terapeuta ocupacional. Atualmente, ela é voluntária no Sakura Garden (antigo Keiro Retirement Home). (Março de 2018)