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- Michigan State University freshman Mari Nord talks about her Japanese and Norwegian heritage, her professor father and businesswoman mother, living in East Lansing, and her great love for traveling. Nord describes Japanese culture, the Japanese education system, and learning the language while in nursery school. She says that she feels torn between Japanese and American culture and gets along best at MSU with international students. She talks about adjusting to college life, majoring in veterinary medicine, and hoping to work with endangered species and says that she does not simply want to have a job and family if that means settling down in one place.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-02-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- May Yamaoka, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, says that she was born in Lodi, California, went to Japan to attend school and was called an 'enemy' by her classmates after the war began. She also talks of finding her sister in a pile of corpses after the bombing and about returning to the U.S. after the war and being interviewed by American newspapers soon after her arrival. She vividly recalls the day of the bombing and says that she now prefers to live alone.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Takashi Tanemori talks about losing his sister, mother, and father in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and describes the hardship of being an orphan. He also talks about coming to the U.S. as a agricultural immigrant and being discriminated against because of his radiation sickness and for being Japanese. He says that he has moved on from being angry to forgiving his tormentors.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-06-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Junko Inoue describes being with her mother in the hospital receiving treatment at the time of the Hiroshima bombing and then surviving the destruction. She vividly remembers the aftermath and people walking like ghosts and asking for water. She also says that she found her younger brother dead in the street.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Survivor Sachiko Matsumoto talks about going into Hiroshima after the atomic bombing to look for her brother and returning with only his ashes. She also talks about marrying a Japanese-American after the war, and moving to San Francisco. She also says that she is now very active in working with her local Survivors Association and an elder's home.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Sachiko Rummel says that she lost her father from radiation related disease after the Hiroshima blast and had a difficult childhood raising her sisters, brother and her sick mother. She explains that she came to Canada after her marriage and only recently started speaking about her experience.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Takeko Okano talks about how she miraculously survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, but lost her father to the blast. She also describes her immigration to San Francisco, CA after the war.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- May Yamaoka, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, says that she was born in Lodi, California, went to Japan to attend school and was called an 'enemy' by her classmates after the war began. She also talks of finding her sister in a pile of corpses after the bombing and about returning to the U.S. after the war and being interviewed by American newspapers soon after her arrival. She vividly recalls the day of the bombing and says that she now prefers to live alone.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University freshman Mari Nord talks about her Japanese and Norwegian heritage, her professor father and businesswoman mother, living in East Lansing, and her great love for traveling. Nord describes Japanese culture, the Japanese education system, and learning the language while in nursery school. She says that she feels torn between Japanese and American culture and gets along best at MSU with international students. She talks about adjusting to college life, majoring in veterinary medicine, and hoping to work with endangered species and says that she does not simply want to have a job and family if that means settling down in one place.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-02-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Takeko Okano talks about how she miraculously survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, but lost her father to the blast. She also describes her immigration to San Francisco, CA after the war.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection