Yoko's DIARY·Sep 25#41 Yoko’s Frequent Visits to Larsen Park in 1930Yoko usually spent her weekends at Larsen Park. Her family would drive there, and she would play to her heart’s content with her friends…
Yoko's DIARY·Aug 18Topic 39: Visiting the Home of Mr. Otsuka in Berkeley (August 17, 1930)Mr. Otsuka, a resident of Berkeley, served as the Deputy Branch Manager of the NYK Line (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) San Francisco Branch. He…
Yoko's DIARY·Jul 20Topic 36: Soichiro Asano and Robert Dollar Shake Hands Aboard the Tatsuta Maru (July 19, 1930)On July 19, 1930, on the deck of the NYK Line’s Tatsuta Maru at Pier 36 in San Francisco, the subtle vibrations of the massive engine could…
Yoko's DIARY·Jan 18#28 “Jump Jim Crow” in the Classroom: Uncovering a Forgotten Diary Entry from 1930When a casual line in my grandmother’s century-old diary revealed a dark symbol of racial segregation, it led me on a journey to uncover…
