Kudo, Eigo (11/26/2022)

Kudo, Eigo (11/26/2022)

Eigo Kudo, a Peruvian of Japanese descent, describes his family's experience of expulsion from Peru and incarceration at Crystal City. He recalls with remarkable clarity the details of the journey by ship from Peru, through the Panama Canal, to the United States; the emotions he experienced as a child being separated from first his father, and then his mother; the conditions at Crystal City; and his family's experience working at Seabrook Farms in New Jersey. He describes the difficulties Peruvian Japanese and Japanese Latin Americans faced during and after incarceration and the challenges they faced when seeking to be included in Japanese Americans' Redress efforts. He shares his direct experience testifying at the Chicago CWRIC hearings and subsequent efforts by his family to secure redress and reparations for Japanese Latin Americans, including the publication of his father-in-law Seiichi Higashide's memoir, "Adios to Tears."

2022-11-26

video

Nagasawa, Katherine

Kudo, Eigo

Japanese Latin American

JLA

Japanese Peruvian

Peru

Panama

Seabrook Farms

Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

CWRIC hearings

Testimony

Adios to Tears

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