| Title: |
Miyo Higashi Ida
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Long Beach Area History: Terminal Island Issei/Nisei
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| Description: |
Miyo Higashi Ida was born on Terminal Island to parents who were both from Wakayama prefecture. Her father was a fisherman, and her mother was a homemaker. During her junior year in high school, her parents returned with the family to Japan. She and her siblings remained in Japan with their grandparents until her mother's untimely death in 1938, at which time they returned to Terminal Island.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Ida, Miyo Higashi
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Terminal Island, CA; California; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Asian
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| Speaker occupation: |
Homemaker; Seamstress
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Historical events discussed: |
Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
California; North America; Terminal Island, CA; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
California; Japanese American families; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans--Terminal Island (Calif.); Marriage; North America; Oral history; Terminal Island (Calif.)--History; Terminal Island, CA; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035258-38825
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