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Excerpt, Oral History Interview, Asa Hanamoto
No full textExcerpt, summary, and index of an oral history interview of Asa Hanamoto. Conducted by Kayoko Aoki on July 4, 2010, in Klamath Falls, OR. Transcribed by Yi-Shen Loo.The Tule Lake Pilgrimage Oral History Project is a series of oral history interviews of participants of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage from 1994 - 2010. The project was conducted by the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc., in collaboration with the Tule Lake Committee
Writing f/a Real World; Writing for the Real World
No full textA showcase of undergraduate writing from students at the University of San Francisco
Haiti Health Clinic Presentation Boards- for Medicorps Intl 3
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Excerpt, Oral History Interview, Kiyoshi Fujiwara
No full textExcerpt, summary, and index of an oral history interview of Kiyoshi Fujiwara. Conducted by Kayoko Aoki on July 3, 2010, in Klamath Falls, OR. Transcribed by Andrea Lebar. Edited by Tadao Uyeno, Brandon H. Unruhe, and Catie Sakurai.The Tule Lake Pilgrimage Oral History Project is a series of oral history interviews of participants of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage from 1994 - 2010. The project was conducted by the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc., in collaboration with the Tule Lake Committee.NATIONAL JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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An Interview on July 3, 2010 with
Kiyoshi Fujiwara
Conducted by
Kayoko Aoki
Oral History Excerpt, Summary, and Index
“Tule Lake Pilgrimage Oral History Project”
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National Japanese American Historical Society
NATIONAL JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
1684 Post Street
San Francisco, California 94115-3604
Interviewee: Kiyoshi Fujiwara
Interviewer: Kayoko Aoki
Transcriber: Andrea Lebar
Editor: Tadao Uyeno and Brandon H. Unruhe Final edits by Catie Sakurai
Location: Tule Lake Pilgrimage, Oregon Institute of Technology Klamath Falls, Oregon
Date: July 3, 2010
Summary: Kiyoshi Fujiwara was born in Sacramento, California, in 1922. After his mother’s death, he was sent to Japan at the age of five, and lived in Hiroshima until he returned to the United States at age seventeen. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Fujiwara was sent first to Walerga (Sacramento) Temporary WCCA “Assembly Center” and later to Tule Lake WRA Concentration Camp. In Tule Lake, Fujiwara experienced his work partner being shot at by a soldier in a guard tower and having a gun pointed at him. Although Fujiwara and his father stayed in the United States through and after the war, they initially planned to return to Japan; because of this and because he mistakenly believed renunciation was necessary to go to Japan, Fujiwara renounced his American citizenship. He was eventually able to regain citizenship after the war. Fujiwara was in one of the last groups of people to leave Tule Lake, and resettled briefly in Chicago before returning to Sacramento.
Keywords: Immigration | Identity: Kibei Nisei | Pre-WWII: education – schooling in Japan | Japan: Pre-WWII | Pearl Harbor: war hysteria – curfew | Forced Removal: Executive Order 9066 | Walerga (Sacramento) Temporary WCCA “Assembly Center” | Tule Lake WRA Concentration Camp | Tule Lake Segregation Center | Life in Camp: psychological impact, security, guard interactions, employment | “Loyalty” questionnaire | Resistance / Dissidence: citizenship renunciation, Supreme Court cases | Leaving Camp: resettlement – Chicago, IL; Sacramento, CA | Post-WWII: education – mechanic school; employment; community activities and organizations – religion | Japanese American Legacy: pilgrimage | Effects of WWII Experience: trauma
National Japanese American Historical Society
Oral History Excerpt:
00:12:06 “My working partner was an Issei man. On one of our 6 o’clock evening shift I was already at the station waiting for my partner to show up. I saw him walking close to the fence and suddenly I heard a gunshot and saw sands kicked up by his foot. A soldier from the guard tower fired his weapon. I thought my working partner was walking too close to the fence. Maybe he thought he was taking a short cut. He was so scared and upset that he did not want to work anymore. I thought I should report this incident to someone and I waked up to the front gate where our Caucasian supervisor’s office was nearby. There were groups of military by the gate and when I came up to about 15 feet to the gate a soldier pointed a gun at me and said “Ok, Buddy, that’s far enough.” Now I was scared and shook up.” (pg. 5)
Index:
00:00:00 Basic biographical information: born in Sacramento, mother’s early death, going to live in Hiroshima, Japan, and returning to the United States at age 17; reuniting with his father and living in Sacramento
00:05:11 Hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor; Japan’s military power
00:06:32 Executive Order 9066: being forcibly moved to Walerga (Sacramento) Temporary WCCA “Assembly Center” and later Tule Lake WRA Concentration Camp; “loyalty” questionnaire and renouncing citizenship; siblings in Japan during the war
00:09:32 Jobs in Tule Lake; soldier shoots at working partner; curfew and military presence at Tule Lake
00:17:04 Reason for staying in the United States; learning English from Nisei Japanese Americans; first impression after returning to America
00:21:12 Resettling in Chicago before returning to Sacramento; occupations after the war; regaining citizenship via class action lawsuit
00:26:26 Renouncing his citizenship
00:28:02 Leaving Tule Lake; resettlement in Chicago and studying at mechanic school 00:29:55 Tule Lake Pilgrimage
00:32:44 Special permit for working past curfew; father’s job in the hospital; daughter’s career in medicine
00:36:19 Sharing his experiences with his children; Tule Lake Pilgrimage, cont. 00:39:53 Meeting his wife; practicing Christianity
00:44:08 On being interviewed; Kibei experiences; friends killed by the atomic bomb
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Excerpt, Oral History Interview, Lawrence Suzuki
No full textExcerpt, summary, and index of an oral history interview of Lawrence Suzuki. Conducted by Takamichi Go on July 3, 2010, in Klamath Falls, OR. Transcribed by Daisuke Nemoto. Translated by Yi-Shen Loo. Edited by Ryoko Kobayashi, Kayoko Aoki, and Brandon Unruhe.The Tule Lake Pilgrimage Oral History Project is a series of oral history interviews of participants of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage from 1994 - 2010. The project was conducted by the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc., in collaboration with the Tule Lake Committee
San Francisco Foghorn Volume 107 Issue 3
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San Francisco Foghorn Volume 106 Issue 10
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