Family Interview Paper

For this interview I have interviewed my Grandmother from my mother’s side of the family. Her name is Ameku Miichi, age seventy-five and she is a full Japanese citizen who spent most of her life in her homeland in Ishigaki Island a commercial hub of the Yaeyama Islands, in Japan’s southwestern Okinawa Prefecture. Who will be giving background of of our family ancestry and how they became to be and her life being born in the midst of the Second World War. I asked my friend mother there that I wanted to know about our family ancestry and her life she replied with “I only remember from when how my parents meet is that okay?” (Mei). I nodded. She began with a background summary of the Ameku family. From the earliest days my mother’s side of the family consisted of main farmers since the very beginning of the Ameku family and their farming practices ideology and methods have been passed down generation after generation. They have been migrating around the islands from time to time due to migration or to find a suitable farmland. Most of the family was poor and belonged to low social class. Most descendants stayed in the Okinawa Prefecture because most marriages happened inside the island

Her daily lifestyle is very productive. Her days start early in the morning to do her daily care of her small farm followed up with lunch and dance practice with her friends in a senior center. Even though she a very old woman she still travels around Japan to hold dance performances in various location her biggest show was in the Hokkaido region where they were the main performers for a Tanabata festival. I asked her how she wanted to remember and she replied without hesitation “Very heartwarming and fun grandmother.” Mei. The span of the interview was three hours in total and I was a very emotion interview my; left and her. I thanked her for sharing such a compelling story of her