Shiyo Doiwchi oral history interview, part 2 of 4, April 20, 2002
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Doiwchi discusses high school and graduation, the Japanese American community while growing up, childhood activities such as selling newspapers at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and attending Nisei dances; and discusses businesses located in Little Tokyo. He then talks about racial discrimination in high school, working at a gas station and nursery after high school, and meeting his wife. Doiwchi also talks about his whereabouts during the attack on Pearl Harbor, going to Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, and life at Santa Anita temporary detention facility. Lastly, Doiwchi discusses volunteering for the Army and going to Camp Shelby; and the birth of his daughter.
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0:29:11
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2002OH0269_02_Doiwchi
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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/269-Doiwchi-Shiyo-2.m4v
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1916 May 25
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Yes
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Doiwchi, Shiyo: narrator, Hawkins, Richard: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Shiyo Doiwchi oral history interview, part 2 of 4, April 20, 2002,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1052824.