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Hannah Hogan is a second generation (Nisei) Japanese American. In this interview, she shares memories of her early life in Denver and Los Angeles and describes the atmosphere of tense anxiety in the Los Angeles Japanese American community after…

Helen Ideno is a third generation (Sansei) Japanese American born in Torrance, CA shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. During WWII, she and her family were incarcerated at Santa Anita and Amache, after which they resettled in Chicago. In this…

Kazuo Ideno was born in San Francisco, California. His father was born on the island of Shikoku and his mother in California although she was raised and educated in Japan. His family was incarcerated at Crystal City Internment Camp located in Texas.…

Stephen Kagawa is a fourth generation (Yonsei) Japanese American born and raised in Hawaii. In this interview, he shares what he has learned about his family's roots in Japan and immigration to Hawaii, and describes his paternal grandfather's…

Jane Kaihatsu is a third generation Japanese American (Sansei), born and raised in the Chicago area. In this interview she shares what she knows of the immigration and incarceration experiences of her mother's and father's families and describes her…

Mary Kamidoi, a nisei who resettled in Missouri and then Flint, MI after being released from incarceration, discusses her involvement with the Detroit chapter of the JACL from the 1950s to the present. A longtime employee of Ford Motor Company, she…

Sachiko Kano, a nisei born in Sacramento, CA in 1935, shares childhood memories of FBI raids and pervasive fear in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. She describes her family dressing in their best clothes to report to the Sacramento Assembly Center,…

Kay Kawaguchi, a shin-issei/sansei, describes the pre-war immigration journeys of her family and her husband's family, her husband's experiences while incarerated at Rohwer, and her own experiences in Japan during and after WWII. She also recalls…