I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.
In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.
I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.
When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.
In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.
When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.
I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.