An Oral History with Reverend Seytsu Takahashi (audio)
Creator
Takahashi, Seytsu: interviewee Yamashita, Mariko: interviewer Clark, Paul F.: interviewer California State University, Fullerton. Center for Oral and Public History: publisher
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Description
Issei Buddhist bishop and superintendent of Kayasan Temple in Little Tokyo since 1931 recounts his wartime experiences and internment at Fort Missoula, Montana; Livingstone, Louisiana; and Crystal City, Texas. Transcribed in both Japanese and English. This oral history was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project, Oral History Program, CSU Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0027. The Japanese American Oral History Project features oral histories with narrators who talk about their lives, pre and post World War II, but most specifically, about their experience being incarcerated in camps during World War II.
Identity and values--Issei Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles World War II--Incarceration camps World War II--U.S. Army internment camps World War II--Department of Justice camps
Place
Los Angeles, California Bismarck, North Dakota Crystal City, Texas Alexandria, Louisiana Department of Justice Internment Camps--Fort Lincoln (Bismarck) Department of Justice Internment Camps--Crystal City
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