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Chizuko Norton: New Year’s Eve at Tule Lake Under Curfew
Chizuko Norton was a teenager during World War II at the Tule Lake concentration camp. In 1943, when the camp was designated a segregation center, a curfew was imposed on…
Tosh Yasutake: Treating Soldiers with “Shell-Shock”
Tosh Yasutake served as a medic with I Company, 442nd Regimental Combat Team. In this clip, he talks about how to treat soldiers, including the medic he replaced, who suffered…
Henry Miyatake: An Essay Results in Expulsion From School
Henry Miyatake was a high school student during World War II. In this clip, he describes an essay he wrote for a high school civics class at Minidoka titled “American…
Giro Nakagawa: Searched by the FBI at an Oyster Farm Station House
Giro Nakagawa was working for the New Washington Oyster Company in South Bend, Washington, before World War II. In this clip, he describes a visit from the FBI while he…
Shosuke Sasaki: “Escape” from Camp
Shosuke Sasaki was incarcerated at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, during World War II. In this clip, he remembers a humorous incident in which he cut through the camp’s barbed…
Oddball Camp Stories in Popular Culture: Early Children’s Books
For whatever reason, there has been a flood of children’s and young adult books on various aspects of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans in the last decade or so….
Atsumi Ozawa: A Japanese Peruvian’s Story
During World War II, Atsumi Ozawa, a Japanese Peruvian, was removed with her family from her hometown of Huancayo, Peru, and taken to the Crystal City internment camp, Texas. Her…
International Lives: The Horiuchi Interviews
“The Nikkei I knew that were involved in the occupation…they were able to work more closely with the Japanese because the Japanese looked upon them as someone that could understand…