Oral history interview with Miyoshi Noyori
Summary
Digitized audio recording of interview with Miyoshi Noyori (1901-1993) conducted in 1986, with abridged English transcript. She discusses her early life in Okayama Prefecture, Japan; her marriage to her first husband, Seizaburo Namba; and her journey to the United States in 1919. She talks about adjusting to life in the Hood River Valley of Oregon, about raising a family while working on farms, and about her experiences after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. She discusses life at the Tule Lake incarceration camp in California and the Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming. She speaks about returning to the Hood River Valley after the end of World War II, and briefly discusses discrimination Japanese Americans experienced when they returned, particularly the removal of Japanese American names from a veterans memorial, including the name of her son, Isao Namba. She closes the interview by reflecting on her experiences as a first-generation Japanese American woman.
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