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Excerpt, Oral History Interview, Jiro Fujii
No full textExcerpt, summary, and index of an oral history interview of Jiro Fujii. Conducted by Ben Takeshita on July 16, 2009, in El Cerrito, CA. Transcribed by Francez Urmatan.This oral history interview was conducted by Marjorie Fujioka and Ben Takeshita as part of the Sakura Kai Oral History Project. The project's goal was to interview residents of the Sakura Kai Senior Center in El Cerrito, CA. The interviews were recorded from 2005 to 2009. The Sakura Kai Senior Center interviews were donated to the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc., by Marjorie Fujioka. Many of the interviewees were associated with the Japanese American nursery businesses in Costra Costa County
Excerpt, Oral History Interview, Toshio Enomoto
No full textExcerpt, summary, and index of an oral history interview of Toshio Enomoto. Conducted by Rosalyn Tonai on July 3, 2009, in Klamath Falls, OR. Transcribed by Michael Suyeda. Edited by Watsunya Ferreira and Brandon H. 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
Excerpt, Oral History Interview, James Hirabayashi
No full textExcerpt, summary, and index of an oral history interview of James Hirabayashi. Conducted by Rosalyn Tonai on July 3, 2009, in Klamath Falls, OR. Transcribed by Christina Kinzel. Edited by Watsunya Ferreira, 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
1684 Post Street
San Francisco, California 94115-3604
An Interview on July 3, 2009 with
Dr. James Hirabayashi
Conducted by
Rosalyn Tonai
Oral History Excerpt, Summary, and Index
“Tule Lake Pilgrimage Oral History Project”
© 2020 NATIONAL JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.
National Japanese American Historical Society
NATIONAL JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
1684 Post Street
San Francisco, California 94115-3604
Interviewee: Dr. James Hirabayashi Interviewer: Rosalyn Tonai Transcriber: Christina Kinzel
Editor: Watsunya Ferreira/Brandon H. Unruhe Final edits by Catie Sakurai
Location: Tule Lake Pilgrimage, Oregon Institute of Technology Klamath Falls, Oregon
Date: July 3, 2009
Summary: Dr. James Hirabayashi, a native of Thomas, Washington, was just a teenager when he was incarcerated at Tule Lake WRA Concentration Camp. After leaving camp, he earned his BA and MA at the University of Washington, where he studied Cultural Anthropology. He then studied at the Tokyo University as a Fulbright scholar before earning his Ph.D. at Harvard. Hirabayashi began working for San Francisco State University, and was involved in developing the Ethnic Studies program at the time of the Third World Student strikes; while developing the program, he was able to re-examine his own wartime experience. He discusses what it was like to return to Tule Lake for the first time since the 1940s, and how the Tule Lake Pilgrimage is important in the context of current (2009) issues.
Keywords: Immigration | Identity: Nisei | Pre-WWII: employment – small business: grocery store; community – demographics | Pearl Harbor | Forced Removal: Executive Order 9066 | Tule Lake WRA Concentration Camp | Life in Camp: education | Resistance / Dissidence: Supreme Court cases | Leaving Camp: work leave – agriculture; resettlement – Spokane, WA | Post-WWII: education
college: University of Washington, Tokyo University, Harvard; employment
Asian American Political Alliance, San Francisco State University | Activism: Third World Student Strikes | Japanese American Legacy: pilgrimage
– National Japanese American Historical Society
Oral History Excerpts:
00:09:46 “Before the strike, I moved into Mill Valley and I joined some civil rights people in the area and we began to attack the fair play in housing and employment and things like that and I recall we used to go into the real estate agents and we’d send a black couple in and they would be told that the apartment is filled, I mean it’s already rented. And then we’d send a white couple in and we’d find that it’s still there. And then we’d picket the place. We did things like that.” (pg. 3)
00:30:42 “With the current international issues around, for example, all this harassment with Arab Americans happened I thought ‘here we go again’. They talked about resurrecting camps and stuff like that. At the Japanese American National Museum they formed a coalition with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, things like that. Then when I look at the immigration issues, hey they’re going through the same thing. All the rhetoric about immigration I’m saying to myself, ‘this is exactly what my parents were hearing 100 years ago’. So I think that we have a long way to go to correct a lot of things that have happened.” (pg. 7)
Index:
00:00:00 Returning to Tule Lake for the first time since 1942; experience in the surrounding area and working in Road Crew with friends; parents owned a grocery store before the war
00:02:59 Growing up in the White River Valley surrounded by other Japanese Americans; discovering how his family lost land in a 1924 court case.
00:06:10 Education and career: studying Cultural Anthropology at the University of Washington, getting the Fulbright scholarship to Tokyo University, pursuing his Ph.D. at Harvard, working for San Francisco State University; switching focus to Ethnic Studies
00:09:46 Involvement in civil rights activism; advising the Asian American Political Alliance at the time of the Third World Student Strikes
00:13:17 Working in Nigeria during the Biafran Civil War; Ethnic Studies program and strikes; recognizing his experiences as a Japanese American elsewhere in the world
00:17:29 Re-examining his wartime experience while developing the Ethnic Studies program 00:20:05 The Board of Trustees controlling education; attending school at Tule Lake without proper
resources; working on a farm; parents attend brother Gordon Hirabayashi’s trial; moving to Spokane and finishing high school; moving to Washington and beginning study at the University of Washington
00:26:28 Experience attending the Tule Lake Pilgrimage; remembering what it was like to be in camp as a 15 year old
00:30:17 Discussion of current (2009) issues in relation to the Japanese American wartime injustice; Japanese Americans forming coalitions with other groups; the importance of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage
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Excerpt, Oral History Interview, Tash Kushi
No full textExcerpt, summary, and index of an oral history interview of Tash Kushi. Conducted by Sachiko Takita Ishii on July 4, 2009, in Klamath Falls, OR. Transcribed by Elizabeth Smith. Edited by Watsunya Ferreira, 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
