Oral history interview with Hayami Fukino, 2012 June 6.

Hayami Fukino speaks about her family and how she was born in Redondo Beach, California, right after her older brother died and then moved back to her parents hometown of Hiroshima just a few years before the start of the war. She remembers being at her school's sports festival when her teacher anno...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Naoko Wake Collection of Oral Histories of US Survivors, Families, and Supporters.
Other Authors: Fukino, Hayami, 1927- (Interviewee)
Wake, Naoko (Interviewer)
Language:English
Series:Naoko Wake Collection of Oral Histories of US Survivors, Families, and Supporters.
Subjects:
Fukino, Hayami, > 1927- > Interviews.
Japanese Americans > Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives.
Fukino, Hayami, > 1927- > Family.
Fukino, Hayami, > 1927- > Childhood and youth.
Return migration > Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 > Psychological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 > War work > Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Personal narratives.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:1 audio file (1 hr., 53 min., 51 sec.)
Format: Audio Software
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Summary:
Hayami Fukino speaks about her family and how she was born in Redondo Beach, California, right after her older brother died and then moved back to her parents hometown of Hiroshima just a few years before the start of the war. She remembers being at her school's sports festival when her teacher announced the start of the war and how upsetting it was for her since "This is my country that they [the Japanese] were fighting". Even though she was still very attached to American culture, she joined the "Teishin Tai", Japanese girls army corp and eventually worked in a paint factory in Hiroshima making dryers for the Imperial Army's planes.
Note:Recorded as a source material of American survivors: trans-Pacific memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a trans-Pacific history of the 1945 atomic bombings authored by MSU historian Naoko Wake.
Call Number:Voice 45708
Playing Time:01:53:51
Event Details:
Recorded 2012 June 6