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Survivor Narratives

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Many stories, both written and video, are presented within the Museum exhibits. For a sampling, read the stories listed below:

1946

Kazu Murakami (bottom left) being rescued by crew member David Cook, on board the LST 731 ship.
  • Kazu Murakami and David Cook: An Amazing Rescue
  • Donald Ikeda: A 1946 Escape 
  • George Wong: Who is the Boy in the Picture? 
  • Hiromi Skeeter Tsutsumi: The Suitengo Shrine 
  • Joan Shaw: The Day Hilo Bay Emptied Out in 1946 
  • A Tribute to Robert “Steamy” Chow 

1960

  • Fusayo Ito: A Lady to Remember 
  • Janet Fujimoto: A Dramatic Story of Life on Piopio Street in Hilo 
  • Jim Camp: Heroes Among Us 
  • Takayoshi Kanda: The Keeper of the Clock
  • Tom Goya: The 1960 Tsunami 
  • Ed Shindo: The Story of Hilo Soda Works

1975

  • Michael Stearns: Swept Away in Halape

2004

Du points to where she spent the first night after the tsunami.
  • Du the Bookkeeper: Du’s Story of Survival
  • Dwayne Meadows: Consider a T-shirt… 

2010

  • Prepared… and Spared: The Tsunami of February 27, 2010

2011

  • Yukie Ohashi: Ishinmaki — My Journey to Tsunami-Ravaged Tohoku
  • Kona, Hawaii Damage from the 2011 Japan Tsunami

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