Oral history interview with Hisa Wakamatsu
Summary
Digitized audio recording of interview with Hisa Wakamatsu (1893-1989) conducted in 1986, with abridged English transcript (12 pages). Wakamatsu discusses her early life on a rice farm in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. She shares her experience as a picture bride, talks about her journey to the United States, and describes adjusting to life in the Hood River Valley of Oregon. She discusses raising ten children, and shares her experiences after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. She talks about fragments of a meteorite that one of her children collected while the family was incarcerated at at the Tule Lake camp in California during World War II. Wakamatsu discusses returning to the Hood River Valley after the end of the war, and talks about her activities at the time of the interview.
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