James Yamazaki talking in his kitchen with Think Out Loud host, Dave Miller, before sitting down for an hour-long interview.
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James Yamazaki is one of a fast-disappearing group: veterans of World War II. He is 99 years old and lives alone with help from his daughter Caroline and home health workers. His life and career have taken him around the country to Germany in WWII and a POW camp.
After the war, he was one of the first Americans to travel to Japan to study the effects of radiation on children born shortly after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yamazaki was married to his wife, Aki, for nearly 80 years, and enjoyed a long medical career in Los Angeles.
He now lives in White Salmon, Washington, near his daughter. We talk to him about his life and work this hour for the next installment of the "At Home" series.
