An Oral History with Mitsuhiko H. Shimizu (transcript)
Creator
Shimizu, Mitushiko H.: 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 community leader and businessman in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo recounts his arrest by Federal Bureau of Investigation after Pearl Harbor, his experiences in internment camps in North Dakota and Louisiana, and the Manzanar incarceration camp, California. This oral history was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project, Oral History Program, CSU Fullerton. Translated into English from oral history recording conducted in Japanese. Audio is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0026. 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--Pearl Harbor and aftermath 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 Alexandria, Louisiana Department of Justice Internment Camps--Fort Lincoln (Bismarck) U.S. Army Internment Camps--Camp Livingston
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