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Yosh Uchida

“Judo got kind of a bad name because after the war, there were so many people that got injured. They didn’t know how to fall or anything. So we had to correct all that, and make sure they did the right thing.”

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Jiro Oyama

“I think that what the Isseis experienced of losing their place in the family unit has been predominant. And if you're any human being, that's a difficult thing to accommodate.”

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Rose Tsunekawa

Every year my father had to go sign a lease and he’d go to the landlord's house. And I stayed in the car. He was never invited in to a white man's house. The landlord would bring the paper, and then my father would hold it against the door outside and sign it.

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