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This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"00:47:48","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-4","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":714,"namepart":"Chico Uyeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"December 8, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Chico Uyeda narrator","download_large":"denshovh-uchico-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1010-1","model":"entity","index":"2 427/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1010-1/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1010-1/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1010/denshovh-wlouie-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1010/denshovh-wlouie-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Louie Watanabe Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born August 22, 1925, in Walnut Grove, California. Grew up in Walnut Grove, where parents owned and operated a restaurant and rooming house. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Merced Assembly Center, California, and Granada concentration camp, Colorado. Left camp for Chicago, Illinois, and worked in various places, including Colorado Springs and Oklahoma City. Eventually returned to Walnut Grove, and currently resides in Sacramento, California.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"02:48:50","links_children":"ddr-densho-1010-1","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":423,"namepart":"Louie Watanabe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Jill Shiraki"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr007hb8w","namepart":"Watanabe, Louie Mitsuru"}],"contributor":"Preserving California's Japantowns Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Sacramento, California","creation":"December 8, 2009","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Louie Watanabe narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nJill Shiraki interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Watanabe, Louie Mitsuru 88922nr007hb8w","download_large":"denshovh-wlouie-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1003-3","model":"entity","index":"3 428/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1003-3/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1003-3/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1003/denshovh-gnancy-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1003/denshovh-gnancy-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Nancy Nakata Gohata Interview","description":"Sansei female. Born October 16, 1940, in Compton, California. As an infant, taken with family to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After the government issued the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire,\" family was transferred to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, lived for ten years at a farm labor camp on an island outside of Stockton. Eventually ended up living in the San Fernando Valley, and became very active with the Japanese American Citizens League.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"02:40:41","links_children":"ddr-densho-1003-3","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":623,"namepart":"Nancy Nakata Gohata"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Sharon Yamato"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Ann Kaneko"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0127t1w","namepart":"Nakata, Yaiko Nancy"}],"contributor":"Friends of Manzanar Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"November 29, 2011","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Nancy Nakata Gohata narrator \nSharon Yamato interviewer \nAnn Kaneko videographer Nakata, Yaiko Nancy 88922nr0127t1w","download_large":"denshovh-gnancy-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1003-4","model":"entity","index":"4 429/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1003-4/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1003-4/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1003/denshovh-nrobert-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1003/denshovh-nrobert-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Robert A. Nakamura Interview","description":"Nisei/Sansei male. Born July 5, 1936, in Venice, California. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, lived for a time in Denver before returning to Los Angeles. After the war, became a pioneering filmmaker. Founder of Visual Communications, the oldest community-based media arts center in the United States. Along with wife Karen Ishizuka, founded the Media Arts Center of the Japanese American National Museum.
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(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"02:16:12","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-401","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":650,"namepart":"John Y. Hayakawa"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0051w00","namepart":"Hayakawa, Yoneo"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Jose, California","creation":"March 21, 2012","status":"completed","search_hidden":"John Y. Hayakawa narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Hayakawa, Yoneo 88922nr0051w00","download_large":"denshovh-hjohn_2-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-385","model":"entity","index":"6 431/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-385/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-385/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-nyosh_2-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-nyosh_2-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Yosh Nakamura Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born June 30, 1925, in Rosemead, California. Grew up in the Rosemead area. During World War II, removed to the Tulare Assembly Center, California, and the Gila River concentration camp, Arizona. Left camp and lived in Des Moines, Iowa, for a time before being drafted into the military. Served in Europe with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. After the war, returned to California and became a teacher and artist.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"02:18:49","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-385","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":632,"namepart":"Yosh Nakamura"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Sharon Yamato"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tani Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr005dd85","namepart":"Nakamura, Yoshio"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Whittier, California","creation":"January 25, 2012","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Yosh Nakamura narrator \nSharon Yamato interviewer \nTani Ikeda videographer Nakamura, Yoshio 88922nr005dd85","download_large":"denshovh-nyosh_2-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-263","model":"entity","index":"7 432/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-263/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-263/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ntetsujiro-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ntetsujiro-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Tetsujiro \"Tex\" Nakamura Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born July 16, 1917, in San Francisco, California. Grew up in Sacramento, and graduated from UC Berkeley in 1939. During World War II, was removed to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Voluntarily stayed in Tule Lake after it was designated a Segregation Center, and worked in the legal aid office. Assisted attorney Wayne Collins in filing cases to restore the U.S. citizenship of Nisei who had renounced their citizenship under government duress.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"01:44:09","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-263","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":417,"namepart":"Tetsujiro \"Tex\" Nakamura"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Barbara Takei"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr010nw4j","namepart":"Nakamura, Tetsujiro"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"September 23, 2009","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Tetsujiro \"Tex\" Nakamura narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nBarbara Takei interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Nakamura, Tetsujiro 88922nr010nw4j","download_large":"denshovh-ntetsujiro-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-380","model":"entity","index":"8 433/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-380/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-380/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-nmo-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-nmo-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Mo Nishida Interview I","description":"Nisei male. Born August 11, 1936, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area. During World War II, was removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. After leaving camp, returned to California and became involved in numerous civil rights organizations and movements postwar. Founded the Manzanar 5500 organization, in which participants make an annual pilgrimage from Los Angeles to the former Manzanar camp site on foot.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"03:09:19","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-380","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":624,"namepart":"Mo Nishida"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Martha Nakagawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Ann Kaneko"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zx3d","namepart":"Nishida, Moritsugu Yone"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"November 29, 2011","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Mo Nishida narrator \nMartha Nakagawa interviewer \nAnn Kaneko videographer Nishida, Moritsugu Yone 88922nr015zx3d","download_large":"denshovh-nmo-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-164","model":"entity","index":"9 434/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-164/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-atom-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-atom-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Tom Akashi Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born June 7, 1929, in Merced, California. Grew up in Mount Eden, California, and was removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Incarcerated at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah, then moved to Tule Lake concentration camp after family volunteered to move to Japan. While at Tule Lake, joined a pro-Japan organization created by father, the Sokoku Kenkyu Seinen Dan, (Young Men's Association for the Study of the Motherland). Renounced U.S. citizenship and expatriated to Japan with parents and siblings in 1945. Lived and worked in Japan until 1948, when returned to the United States. Author of Betrayed Trust: The Story of a Deported Issei and His American-Born Family During WWII, published in 2004.","extent":"04:13:27","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-164","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":178,"namepart":"Tom Akashi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Steve Colgrove"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr012418s","namepart":"Akashi, Motomu"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Klamath Falls, Oregon","creation":"July 3, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Tom Akashi narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nChizu Omori interviewer \nSteve Colgrove videographer Akashi, Motomu 88922nr012418s","download_large":"denshovh-atom-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-382","model":"entity","index":"10 435/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-382/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-382/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-nmo-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-nmo-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Mo Nishida Interview II","description":"Nisei male. Born August 11, 1936, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area. During World War II, was removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. After leaving camp, returned to California and became involved in numerous civil rights organizations and movements postwar. Founded the Manzanar 5500 organization, in which participants make an annual pilgrimage from Los Angeles to the former Manzanar camp site on foot.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"01:42:44","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-382","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":624,"namepart":"Mo Nishida"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Martha Nakagawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tani Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zx3d","namepart":"Nishida, Moritsugu Yone"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"January 9, 2012","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Mo Nishida narrator \nMartha Nakagawa interviewer \nTani Ikeda videographer Nishida, Moritsugu Yone 88922nr015zx3d","download_large":"denshovh-nmo-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-373","model":"entity","index":"11 436/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-373/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-373/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ofrank-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ofrank-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Frank K. Omatsu Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born March 31, 1924, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles where father worked as a produce buyer. During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Left camp to work in Chicago, and was drafted into the military. Served with the Military Intelligence Service in the Philippines and Japan. After the war, returned to Los Angeles and worked for the Sumitomo Bank.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"03:03:06","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-373","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":615,"namepart":"Frank K. Omatsu"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Sharon Yamato"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tani Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zx2x","namepart":"Omatsu, Frank"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"October 24, 2011","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Frank K. Omatsu narrator \nSharon Yamato interviewer \nTani Ikeda videographer Omatsu, Frank 88922nr015zx2x","download_large":"denshovh-ofrank-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-317","model":"entity","index":"12 437/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-317/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-317/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hizumi-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hizumi-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Izumi Hirano Interview","description":"Kibei male. Born February 25, 1929, in Hilo, Hawaii. At the age of four, moved to Japan, where family operated a farm. Attended school in Japan during World War II. Was in school in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the atomic bomb in 1945. Survived the bombing along with mother and brother. In 1949, returned to Hawaii and eventually became involved in establishing an organization of atomic bomb survivors.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"02:41:05","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-317","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":547,"namepart":"Izumi Hirano"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Honolulu, Hawaii","creation":"March 1, 2011","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Izumi Hirano narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-hizumi-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-259","model":"entity","index":"13 438/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-259/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-259/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mshig_2-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mshig_2-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Shig Miyaki Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born November 18, 1923, on Terminal Island, California. Grew up on Terminal Island, where father was part of the large Japanese American fishing community. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. While at Manzanar, joined the irrigation crew and took expeditons out in the hills surrounding camp to hike and fish. Signed \"no-no\" on the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire\" and was transferred to the Tule Lake Segregation Center
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