Kaoru “Kay” (Higashi) Oshima
Kaoru “Kay” Oshima recalls her experiences as a young Kibei Nisei, a Japanese American born in the United States but educated in Japan. Oshima describes her experience coming back to the United States from Japan and how she and her family moved to avoid camp before eventually being forced into Gila River WRA Concentration Camp. She reflects on how the wartime experience was a great loss and tragedy for Japanese Americans, the incarceration’s psychological impacts on her well-being, and how things could have been different for her and her family if the incarceration had never happened.
