Please join us for this timely event with Takeshi Furumoto, joined by Jeongeun Park, Associate Director of Rutgers Oral History Archives!
"Raised in Hiroshima, Fought in Vietnam": A Conversation with Takeshi Furumoto
April 29, 2:00-3:30 PM @ Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library
Tak Furumoto was born in Tule Lake Incarceration Camp in 1944. After being released from the Camp, he spent 10 years in Hiroshima, where his grandparents were victims of the Atomic Bombing. He and his family came back to the US in 1956 and lived in Los Angeles. In 1968 he volunteered for the US Army, serving in Vietnam. He was awarded the Bronze Start Medal in 1971, but suffered from PTSD and exposure to AGENT ORANGE.
He is a Board Member of NY Japanese American Association, founder of NY Hiroshima-Kai, life member of Japanese American Veteran's Association, founding member of the Japan History Council of New York/Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York, AAPI Advisory Council of NJ, and was instrumental in getting Fred Korematsu Day established as a state holiday in New Jersey.
For more, watch the recent documentary made by NHK: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/hiroviet/