David Yamaguchi: Rice crackers, family letters, and his way of giving back to the community
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David Yamaguchi: Rice crackers, family letters, and his way of giving back to the community
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Welcome to the second season of “beyond generations,” an interview series. It’s my journey of discovering what happened to Japanese American people during WWII, and how people have been trying to acknowledge, understand, and learn from it, and figure out how to connect it to the future. I am your host, Monica.
Today’s guest is David Yamaguchi. He is the editor of the North American Post, the community newspaper that has been serving Seattle's Japanese American Community since 1902.
In this episode, David will talk about how a stack of family letters he found in his parents’ basement helped him learn about his family history and how it guided father-son conversations that revealed some amazing facts about his father’s younger days including why he took a typewriter to Minidoka.
You will be surprised how little you know about the person who is behind the North American Post that is such a familiar face in Seattle’s Japanese American community.
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Glossary:
- Some abbreviations David used
INS=Immigration and Naturalization Service
WRA=War Relocation Authority
JCCCW= The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington
- Some Japanese words David mentioned
Nisei-han: 2.5 generation Japanese American（2世半）
Senbei: Japanese rice crackers （煎餅）
Shiryo: Documents. Historical documents in this episode’s context （資料）
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Special thanks to David Yamaguchi and Gwen Shigihara
Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay
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References:
About David Yamaguchi
https://napost.com/author/david-yamaguchi/
About David's Dad
https://napost.com/2020/dad-vigilante/
About David's aunt
https://napost.com/2022/natsuko-chin-rn-elected-to-wsna-hall-of-fame/
About the North American Post
https://napost.com/about/
Follow the NAP on social media
https://www.facebook.com/TheNorthAmericanPost/
https://www.instagram.com/napost1902/
Subscribe to the NAP
https://napost.com/subscribe/
The NAP contact
https://napost.com/contact/
Send David Yamaguchi articles and photos!
david@napost.com
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