Thanks to the following community members for their contributions to this exhibition. These oral history interviews were recorded for the Cruising J-Town between 2022 and 2024. Clips from the interviews are included in the videos produced for the exhibition. Audio clips from some of the interviews are available on the Audio Tour page and on JANM’s Bloomberg Connects guide. JANM is in the process of organizing these interviews for future public access.
Interviewees
Tad Amano and Eileen Peterman • Michelle, Geoff and Myles Ando • Members of the Apostles (Robert Arai, Gary Hata, Howard Igasaki, Howard Imatomi, Richard Imatomi, Ben Nakagawa, Fred Tanaka) • Members of the Atomettes (Sadie Hifumi, Rose Honda, Kathleen Yamazaki) • Sandra Buscher and Yukari Mikesell • Darin Dohi • Janet Fujimoto • BIll Fujioka • Ed Fujita • Bill Fukushima • Sachi and Tats Gotanda • Philip Kan Gotanda • Janice Goto • Jennifer Goto • Steve Hasegawa • Guy Hashimoto and Irvin Matsukiyo • Members of the Hatekeyama families (Kenji Hatekeyama, Bruce Hatakeyama, and Elaine Fukumoto) • Toshi Hayama • Len Higa • Naomi Hirahara • Benson Hsu and Nadine Sachiko Hsu • Derek Ige • Jimmy Ige • Reiko Ige-Toshima • Jon Ikeda • Richard Ikkanda • Rick Ishitani • Billy Johnson • Patty Morimoto Johnson and Melinda Morimoto Seshiki • Robert Jung • Tod Kaneko • Scott Kanemura • Brian Karasawa • Paul Katata • Gary Kato • Wade Kawasaki • Chico Kodama • Myles Kovacs • Sachi Koyama and Leslie Carlson-Koyama • Ford Kuramoto • Dan and John Kuramoto • Roland Leong • Ed Loh • Tom Matano • Dane and Gary Matsubara • Mitchell Matsumura • Richard Mikami • Sam Mitani • Motohide Miwa • Donald Miyagi • Ken Miyoshi • Tim Mochizuki • Bob Mochizuki • Melanie Morimoto • Russell Morimoto • The family of Lefty Morimoto (Stacy Eng, Kathi Morimoto, Mike Morimoto, Randall Morimoto, Sherry Morimoto) • Ernie Nagamatsu • Dylan, Ken, and Kyle Nagao • Steve Nakajima • Marsha and Walter Nakamura • Roy Nakano • Desmond Nakano • Marion Nishimura and Jimmie Yamane • Nobu Oshiro • Becky Kudo Rittel • Ross Ruiz • Randy Sakamoto • Yasu Sato • Kirk Shimazu • Richard Sugi • George Takei • Bryan Takeda and Allen Tamura • Jean Tekawa • The family of Shiro Teramoto (Karen Mark, Elaine Miyamoto, Gary Teramoto, Julie Teramoto, Lois Yamada) • Scott Toshima • Ben and Sandy Toshiyuki • Amy and Scott Tsuneishi • Duane Uyeda • Koji and Terry Yamaguchi • Greg Yamamoto • Ron Yamaoka • Roy Yanase • Chris Yato • Kaiya and Kyle Yonamine • Brian Yoshino