Oral history interview with Toshiko Hishinuma, 2012 June 2.

Toshiko Hishinuma was born in 1940. Her father was born in Hawaii but had to return to Hiroshima when he was 3 years old after the death of his father. She reminisces about her parents, including memories of the photography shop they operated. She says she doesn't have many memories from when the bomb was dropped, but she describes what she's learned from her family and from an essay written by her older brother; she was at home with her mother when the bombing happened. She remembers writing an essay for the Children of the Atomic Bomb book project while she was in elementary school. She talks about other memories from junior high and high school, including learning to use an English-language typewriter, a skill which she used to find work. She got married and came to the U.S. in 1963. She talks about her life in Los Angeles in a Nikkei community, and she describes her experiences going back to work at a bank in 1979. She talks about her health problems, including a meningioma she had removed in 2006. She discusses her involvement with the American Society of Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors (ASA).

Recorded 2012 June 2