Interview with Minoru Sam Oyama

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Title: Interview with Minoru Sam Oyama
Date created: 2007-11-21
Interviewee: Minoru Sam Oyama
Interviewer(s): Minnie Hattori and Miyoshi Tanaka
Location of interview: Burnaby
Time period discussed: 1921 - onwards
Place of birth: Shiga-ken
General comments: 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.
Subject(s): World War II, Redress, Japanese tradition, Transnational marriage, Japanese Army, Culture, Japanese-Canadian Culture
Language: Japanese
Type: Interviews (Sound recordings)
Oral histories
Duration: 59:04 / 59:06
Copyright: Open