Doi, Yoko (10/21/2017)

Doi, Yoko (10/21/2017)

Yoko Doi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1935. The oldest of four children, she recalls an early childhood spent close to Tokyo Bay, rising patriotism in Japan, and harrowing wartime experiences of family and friends. Rather than being evacuated to a temple in Nagano prefecture with other children, Yoko was taken to her grandmother's home in Hokkaido during the war. Meanwhile, her family endured the fire bombing of Tokyo before escaping to live with her paternal relatives in Yamagata prefecture. After the war, Yoko was reunited with her family in Yamagata where she completed high school before attending a Christian university in Tokyo. After being introduced by her landlord, Yoko and her future husband Mikio exchanged letters for three years before he traveled to Japan to propose marriage. Mikio was a nisei who resettled in Chicago after his incarceration at Gila River. Yoko recounts many stories from both her family and her husband's family, including wartime experiences in Japan and in the United States.

2017-10-21

video

Takada, Anna

Doi, Lisa M.

Doi, Yoko

Shin-Issei

Christianity

Tokyo

Yamagata

Hiroshima

Oxnard, CA

Gila River

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