StoryCorps San Joaquin: Lifelong Friends Talk About Internment Camps, Racism

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And now it’s time for another segment of StoryCorps San Joaquin . As part of Valley Public Radio’s collaboration with the personal history project , we’re airing segments based on recorded conversations from February’s 2020 mobile tour in Fresno and Bakersfield. Today, as part of the Yonsei Memory Project, you’ll hear from lifelong friends, 94-year-old Gary Tsudama and 87-year-old Yutaka Yamamoto. They talk about the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II and how they adjusted to life afterward. Tsudama begins.
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