Tools for Educators - Extended Video Interviews

Hung Wai Ching – Chinese American YMCA Executive, friend and mentor to many young Japanese Americans, an item of interest to intelligence agencies, since Japan and China were at war. - Video Interview (15:09)

Sue Isonaga – a Japanese American student who boarded with the FBI agent Robert L. Shivers and his wife, and who became their “adopted daughter.” - Video Interview (6:54)

Shimeiji Kanazawa – drafted by the Swedish consulate to provide humanitarian assistance to Japanese aliens in Hawaii after Dec. 7; escorted wives and children of internees to detention camps in Jerome and Rowher, Arkansas. - Video Interview (8:46)

Dr. Tetsuden Kashima – the leading contemporary writer on the wartime incarceration of Japanese aliens and Japanese Americans; author of “Judgment Without Trial.” - Video Interview (9:29)

Dr. Gail Okawa – Dr. Gail Y. Okawa grew up in comfort in Manoa Valley on Oahu until – surprise – she learned belatedly that her grandfather, a Christian minister, had been arrested and detained throughout World War II. It set her on a path of research that led deeply into the National Archives. She teaches English at the Youngstown State University in Ohio. - Video Interview (8:05)

Dr. Greg Robinson – the leading academic authority on the relationship of President and Mrs. Roosevelt to the subject of Japanese Americans; author of “By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans.” - Video Interview (23:17)

Ted T. Tsukiyama – veteran of the Hawaiian Territorial Guard, Varsity Victory Volunteers, 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the Military Intelligence Language Service; researcher and author of numerous articles on the wartime experiences of Japanese Americans. Coming Soon - Video Interview (17:20)