Issei, Nisei, Sansei
I recently worked on a few different research projects assisting scholars and news teams who were conducting research on the Chamoru-Japanese families in Guam. Some of these projects focused on the waves of Japanese migration and how Japanese people were integrated or treated by the Spanish or American colonial administrations. Others focused on the Chamoru families that blended with the Japanese migrants and their experiences. Some of this interest was spurred by the publication last year of a book by Master of Chamoru Culture for Playwrighting Peter Onedera "A Borrowed Land." I remember first encountering the sometimes complicated nature of their history, especially when it came to Guam's World War II period, when I was a young graduate student, just starting to do my oral history research. I was in Micronesian Studies at the University of Guam, traveling around, usually with my grandmother, visiting her friends and relatives, practicing my Chamoru, but also as...