Family Members of Note
Eddie Imazu was a notable member of a notable family. This page is a resource for links and information about Eddie’s family members, whether related by birth or by marriage.
Takashi “Teek” Kondo
(brother of Aiko Kondo Imazu & brother-in-law of Eddie Imazu)
With a fellow worker, Mr. Shimamoto (left, with glasses) and Mr. Takashi “Teek” Kondo draw sketches for a postwar housing project.
“In the office of a leading architectural and engineering firm”
Yuri Kochiyama née Nakahara;
May 19, 1921 – June 1, 2014
(Cousin of Aiko Kondo Imazu, Eddie Imazu’s wife):
- “A Heart without Boundaries – Part 1,” by Maya Kochiyama
Granddaughter Maya Kochiyama’s profile of Mary Yuriko Nakahara Kochiyama, who grew up sheltered in small-town America, who initially overlooked underlying racism, but who awakened politically because of travails while job-hunting.
- “A Heart without Boundaries – Part 2,” by Maya Kochiyama
Maya’s account of Mary Yuriko Nakahara Kochiyama’s WWII life in relocation camps, where residents stood in long lines to use restrooms and eat in messhalls and where internees hung sheets in unpartitioned barracks to create walls for minimal privacy.
- “A Heart without Boundaries – Part 3,” by Maya Kochiyama
Maya’s account of the radicalization of Mary Yuriko Nakahara Kochiyama, including her friendship with Malcolm X, her membership in Asian Americans for Action, and her association with the Redress Movement to gain compensation for losses Japanese-Americans suffered during WWII.
- “The Last Revolutionary,” by Melissa Hung, East Bay Express, March 13, 2002
Lengthy personality profile of Yuri Kochiyama, including her WWII activism and her current political involvements, such as the David Wong Committee, the Free Mumia Abu Jamal movement, and informative correspondence with political prisoners.
- Fujino, Diane C. Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama (Critical American Studies).
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
- Kochiyama, Yuri. Passing It On: A Memoir.
Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2004.
- “Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice.” Videocassette. Saunders, Pat and Rea Tajiri. San Franciso, CA: NAATA/ CrossCurrent Media, 1995.
An account of Yuri’s association with Malcolm X.
Yuri Kochiyama kneeling next to Malcom X
after his assassination.
- “Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement,”
by Kiku Hori Funabiki, page 26-27 (about Seiichi Nakahara and his daughter Yuri)
- “Yuri Kochiyama: Internment Camp”
An account of Yuri’s WWII experiences, including her father’s detention by the FBI and her family’s internment in Jerome, Arkansas.
Lengthy personality profile beginning with 18-year-old Yuri’s ‘Creed to Live By,’ then detailing her WWII experiences, chronicling her radicalization, quoting her first-person account of Malcolm X’s assassination and ending with her mentioning legal injustices and anti-war activism concerning Iraq and Afghanistan.
Peter Nakahara
May 19, 1921 – November 28, 2003
(Yuri Kochiyama’s twin brother):
Interview of an elderly Peter M. Nakahara about his father, Seiichi, who was detained and interrogated by the FBI at Terminal Island after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and who died the day after being released.
- “San Jose Mercury News – Peter Nakahara Article” dated Tuesday, August 13th 1985 by Teresa Watanabe
- “Peter Nakahara Funeral Bio” by Elizabeth Nakahara
Chiyo Nakahara
- “60 Years Later, WWII internment camp survivors reunite” dated August 6th 2004 by Dennis Lim
