Teresa Bill

LISTEN Download

Permission to record, edit, re-broadcast
Interview Robynn Takayama
Transcript created June 8, 2005

:10 My name is Theresa Bill and I’m the program coordinator for Bridge to Hope at the University of Hawaii and yes, you have permission…

Focus on women. 1908-1920 as PB period. Why these dates and who are we talking about? Read more...

Alma Ogata

LISTEN Download


Alma Ogata
Interview by Robynn Takayama
Transcript created June 8, 2005

WHAT WAS YOUR MOTHER’S LIFE LIKE IN JAPAN AND WHY SHE WANTED TO BECOME A PICTURE BRIDE
:42 My mother Sugi Misukami was born in Kumamoto City. It was in the city at the time. It was a prefecture. Kumomoto prefecture and the county was…I forgot. And she was very happy working in a place where there were micro…

5 My mother Sugi Misukami was born in a little village in Kamikai in the province of Watakugun, Kumamoto prefecture. She was the last of three children and the only daughter of Yahichi Misukami and Tojo Misukami. :29 She was sent to the temple to learn sewing for three years and after that, she was employed at a silk worm company where the high school graduates were able to look through the microscope to look for disease in the worms. Read more...