Interview with Minoru Sam Oyama

Date

2007-11-21

Description

Minoru was born in North Vancouver, but his father took him to Japan after his mother's death in a house fire and his grandmother brought him up. Minoru talks about his experiences growing up in Japan and coming back to Canada after being part of a Japanese army.

Physical description

1 online resource (1 audio file (a) 00:59:04 b) 00:59:06))

Business/company discussed

Mitsubishi; Nihongo Gakkou; Ikebana Kyokai; Bonsai Club; Ocha-kai; Nikkei Heritage Centre; UBC; JCC (Japanese Community Centre)

Time period discussed

1921 - onwards

Names mentioned

George (his brother); Mariko (his daughter); Mark (his son); Keiko Kojima; Michiko; Tsuji Fujio; Henry Tanaka; Willson

Topic discussed

World War II; Redress; Japanese tradition; Transnational marriage; Japanese Army; Culture; Japanese-Canadian Culture

Place of birth

Shiga-ken

Accession Number

2013.2.1

Location

Burnaby

Subject (Geographic)

Genre

Interviews

Oral histories

Sound recordings

Type of resource

Sound recording non-musical

Language

Japanese

Part of

Japanese Canadian Oral History Collection

Identifier

johc_510

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Japanese Canadian National Museum

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