Older Nisei woman (84) with limited schooling (due to necessity of helping parents with strawberries and grapes) was interviewed by Jim Carlson of American River College. The pre-war and post-war setting is the Taishoku rural area, and Yoneko currently resides with yougest sonís family. She recalls the Poston Relocation campís ìhot weather and not very good food..î Hamamoto and ten families returned to Florin by train and many were helped by Caucasian friends with the struggle of resettlement.

TOSHIO HAMATAKA

Toshio is a Florin Nisei with 60% disability as war veteran. He served in many military installations and was involved with 442nd Japanese American unit in France and Italy sustaining severe injuries and received two Purple Hearts and Cluster. Wife, Sue, and other family were in Amache, Colorado camp. After just two years at Elk Grove High School, he went to work to help support the family and ran an auto repair business after the war. Despite health problems for both, the parents raised four children and the grandchildren of eldest daughter are twins.

YAEKO HATANO

Book consists of Oral History of Yaeko, Issei widow (35 pages) and family history album of 24 pages of Hatano, Fujimoto and Miyazaki families compiled after their 1993

Honolulu Reunion. Yaeko was interviewed by son Mas and daughter Gerry. She was born in Kumamoto, Japan; educated there through high school, married there and migrated to Isleton and Newcastle in Northern California. World War II was spent in Tule Lake aware of the pro and anti-Japan factions around them and managing not to get too involved. Then the family resettled in Loomis and finally in the Sacramento area. This Hatano family lived in many places and did many kinds of work to survive and is grateful that the childlren obtained American college education, found steady government employment and finally, enjoying retirement.

MINAYO AND SUMAKO IMADA

Oral histories of Minayo, in her early 90's (in Japanese) and Sumako (daughter) age 76, and autobiography (11 pages) by great-grandson Stephen, age 19. Minayo came to America as teenage picture bride, to "make money," worked in the fields for $1 a day, had two children, seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren and died at age 98. Sumako tells of many hardships living in America and Japan, in Jerome camp, divorcing husband, getting her children into college. Though born and residing in Piedmont, CA, Stephen Egawa reminisces about visits to his great-grandmother and other relatives in the Taisho area of East Sacramento.

FRANK IRITANI

As with most Americans, Frank (76) is a child of immigrants. His parents came from Okayama, Japan, seeking a better life. His education is rather broad--two years at Nichibei Gakuin, Tokyo, as a young teenager, two years in U. S. military with the Military Intelligence Service, a couple of pre-war years at Colorado School of Mines, a couple of post WWII years at University of Minnesota, and three years at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley. Born in Denver, Colorado, he was not forced into a relocation center but, nevertheless, was subjected to discrimination. He is married to Joanne (Ono, Poston internee), and they visited all ten relocation campsites which resulted in the small book Ten Visits: Brief Accounts of Visits to All Relocation Centers, 1995.