(This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.)","extent":"01:11:03","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-193","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":218,"namepart":"Sam Ogo"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Megan Asaka"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Spokane, Washington","creation":"April 25, 2006","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Sam Ogo narrator \nMegan Asaka interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-osam-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-28-10","model":"segment","index":"4 2554/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-28-10/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-28-10/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-idaniel-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-idaniel-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Daniel Inouye Segment 10","description":"Bridging the rift between the Hawaii and mainland Japanese Americans, and learning about the concentration camps for the first time
This interview was conducted at the senator's office in Honolulu, Hawaii, as part of a series of interviews with veterans attending the 1998 Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans National Convention held in Honolulu, Hawaii. Because of the full conference schedule, the interviews were generally shorter in length than the typical Densho interview and concentrated on a single topic, namely, the individual's military service during World War II.","extent":"00:06:53","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-28-10","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":32,"namepart":"Daniel Inouye"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Beverly Kashino"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Military service -- 442nd Regimental Combat Team","id":"89"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Honolulu, Hawaii","facility":[{"term":"Rohwer","id":"9"}],"creation":"June 30, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Daniel Inouye narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nBeverly Kashino interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer","download_large":"denshovh-idaniel-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-356","model":"collection","index":"5 2555/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-356/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-356/ddr-densho-356-147-mezzanine-d72e8751c6-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-356/ddr-densho-356-147-mezzanine-d72e8751c6-a.jpg"},"title":"Yuriko Domoto Tsukada Collection","description":"This collection consists of Yuriko Tsukada (nee Domoto)’s photographs, correspondences, personal records, diaries, and Granada (Amache) Camp Administrative Records related to the Social Welfare Department. \r\nPhotographs in this collection are of the Domoto and Tsukada families before 1941.\r\nThe correspondences are to Yuriko Tsukada (nee Domoto) from friends and family while she was held in Merced Assembly Center and Granada (Amache) and in the years following her resettlement on the East Coast predominantly between 1942 and 1946. Yuriko Tsukada (nee Domoto) received letters from her husband Richard “Dick” Hiroshi Tsukada when they were dating in 1943 and 1944 when he left Granada (Amache) to find work. Additionally, Richard and Yuri lived apart in 1946 when he moved to New Rochelle, New York and Yuri attended Simmon's College in Boston. Additionally, Yuriko Tsukada (nee Domoto) received letters and artwork from longtime friend, artist Mine Okubo between 1948-1994 and kept several programs from art shows of Mine Okubo's work. To learn more about Mine Okubo see http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Mine_Okubo/ and to see more of her work visit Riverside Community College http://library.rcc.edu/riverside/okubo/ and the Japanese American National Musuem http://www.janm.org/collections/mine-okubo-collection which both hold physical collections of Mine Okubo's work. Yuri Tsukada wrote frequently to her brother Kaneji Domoto, and that correspondence can be found in the Kaneji and Sally (Fujii) Domoto Collection (ddr-densho-329) ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-329. \r\nYuriko Tsukada's (nee Domoto) diaries date from 1927 through 1943. \r\nHer personal records range from accounting books to school reports to personal legal documents to documents and letters related to the Domoto Bro's Nursery that her father, uncle and eldest brother managed; broadly from the 1910s through the 1940s. She also kept meeting minutes from the Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies from December 1941 to February 1942 and case notes from Japanese Americans seeking assistance following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.\r\nThe Administrative Records are from Yuriko Tsukada's (nee Domoto) time as a Social Worker at Granada (Amache) and at Merced Assembly Center. These records include: internal memos regarding office work, blank forms, social welfare worker’s studies, resettlement efforts, family reunification polices, and the transfer of individuals from Tule Lake to Amache.","links_children":"ddr-densho-356","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Tsukada, Yuriko (Domoto)"},{"role":"author","namepart":"War Relocation Authority"}],"language":["eng","jpn"],"contributor":"Densho","public":"1","rights":"cc","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Tsukada, Yuriko (Domoto) author \nWar Relocation Authority author","download_large":"ddr-densho-356-147-mezzanine-d72e8751c6-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-pc-31-52","model":"entity","index":"6 2556/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-31-52/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-31-52/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-31/ddr-pc-31-52-mezzanine-8cea87f8fe-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-31/ddr-pc-31-52-mezzanine-8cea87f8fe-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 26 (December 25, 1959)","description":"Selected article titles: \"14 Nisei and the Marauders\" (p. 3), \"Business of Rescuing Drowning Suicides\" (p. 7), \"Hawaii: Bridge to Asia\" (p. 13), \"Service is Basic Reason for JACL Existence\" (p. 20), \"Chapter feels its diversified program has 1960-70 appeal\" (p. 22), \"Paul Horiuchi: Before success was limned in his paint brushes\" (p. 37), \"Making community little better each year is rule\" (p. 38), \"Program areas of study suggested\" (p. 51), \"Undercurrent of opinion strong for JACL movement in 'Soaring '60s'\" (p. 52), \"Quotes from Jimmie Sakamoto's Courier\" (p. 54).\r\n\r\nThe holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and chapters that included personal addresses and phone numbers to better foster communications between Japanese American communities. These addresses and phone numbers have been redacted to help protect the privacy of Japanese American communities. Please contact Densho to request the original version.","extent":"11W x 15.75H","links_children":"ddr-pc-31-52","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"Japanese American Citizens League"}],"topics":[{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Civil rights","id":"234"},{"term":"Community activities -- Associations and organizations -- The Japanese American Citizens League","id":"20"},{"term":"Journalism and media -- Community publications -- Pacific Citizen","id":"389"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Wakamatsu, Shig"},{"namepart":"Yoshimura, Akiji"},{"namepart":"Kikuchi, Kan"},{"namepart":"Nakatsuka, Lawrence"},{"namepart":"Masaoka, Mike"},{"namepart":"Sugimoto, Aki"},{"namepart":"Sakamoto, Shig"},{"namepart":"Yamamoto, Irene"},{"namepart":"Yatabe, Linda"},{"namepart":"Kobayashi, Miyuki"},{"namepart":"Toyama, Thomas"},{"namepart":"Okura, Patrick"},{"namepart":"Nakamura, George"},{"namepart":"Mori, Henry"},{"namepart":"Hirata, Mine"},{"namepart":"Yoshida, Mary"},{"namepart":"Beekman, Allan"},{"namepart":"Kyotow, George"},{"namepart":"Hachiya, Josie"},{"namepart":"Horiuchi, Paul"},{"namepart":"Ogawa, Elmer"},{"namepart":"Nakamura, Ayako"},{"namepart":"Tanaka, Henry"},{"namepart":"Sakamoto, Jimmie"},{"namepart":"Gordon, Harold"},{"namepart":"Kumata, Ruth"},{"namepart":"Matsumoto, Bill"},{"namepart":"Murayama, Tamotsu"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"periodical","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"December 25, 1959","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Japanese American Citizens League publisher Wakamatsu, Shig \nYoshimura, Akiji \nKikuchi, Kan \nNakatsuka, Lawrence \nMasaoka, Mike \nSugimoto, Aki \nSakamoto, Shig \nYamamoto, Irene \nYatabe, Linda \nKobayashi, Miyuki \nToyama, Thomas \nOkura, Patrick \nNakamura, George \nMori, Henry \nHirata, Mine \nYoshida, Mary \nBeekman, Allan \nKyotow, George \nHachiya, Josie \nHoriuchi, Paul \nOgawa, Elmer \nNakamura, Ayako \nTanaka, Henry \nSakamoto, Jimmie \nGordon, Harold \nKumata, Ruth \nMatsumoto, Bill \nMurayama, Tamotsu","download_large":"ddr-pc-31-52-mezzanine-8cea87f8fe-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-pc-42-50","model":"entity","index":"7 2557/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-42-50/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-42-50/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-42/ddr-pc-42-50-mezzanine-3d3e2b8c66-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-42/ddr-pc-42-50-mezzanine-3d3e2b8c66-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen, Vol. 71, No. 25 (December 18, 1970)","description":"Selected article titles: \"East Coast history of Japanese to be distinctive contribution\" (p. 1), \"National Constitution Japanese American Citizens League\" (p. 2), \"JACL chapter presidents\" (p. 4), \"JACL Bowling Tournament Champions\" (p. 7), \"The JACL Story: For Better Americans in a Greater America\" (p. 9), \"Heart Mountain WRA Camp residents sound off before a Dies Committee investigator\" (p. 13), \"Genesis of Pearl Harbor Attack\" (p. 25), \"Japan trip enhances need of Sansei to seek an Asian American identity\" (p. 37), \"Selected Bibliography Japanese in the United States\" (p. 49).\r\n\r\nThe holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and chapters that included personal addresses and phone numbers to better foster communications between Japanese American communities. These addresses and phone numbers have been redacted to help protect the privacy of Japanese American communities. Please contact Densho to request the original version.","extent":"15W x 22.5H","links_children":"ddr-pc-42-50","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Japanese American Citizens League"}],"topics":[{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Civil rights","id":"234"},{"term":"Community activities -- Associations and organizations -- The Japanese American Citizens League","id":"20"},{"term":"Journalism and media -- Community publications -- Pacific Citizen","id":"389"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Uno, Raymond"},{"namepart":"Masaoka, Mike"},{"namepart":"Hosokawa, Bill"},{"namepart":"Beekman, Alan"},{"namepart":"Satow, Masao"},{"namepart":"Takei, George"},{"namepart":"Yoshida, Barbara"},{"namepart":"Maeda, Wayne"},{"namepart":"Hamanaka, Joe"},{"namepart":"Henry, Jim"},{"namepart":"Takasugi, Robert"},{"namepart":"Sakai, Ellen"},{"namepart":"Kano, Hiram"}],"contributor":"Pacific Citizen","rights":"cc","genre":"periodical","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"December 18, 1970","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Japanese American Citizens League author Uno, Raymond \nMasaoka, Mike \nHosokawa, Bill \nBeekman, Alan \nSatow, Masao \nTakei, George \nYoshida, Barbara \nMaeda, Wayne \nHamanaka, Joe \nHenry, Jim \nTakasugi, Robert \nSakai, Ellen \nKano, Hiram","download_large":"ddr-pc-42-50-mezzanine-3d3e2b8c66-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-pc-61-45","model":"entity","index":"8 2558/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-61-45/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-61-45/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-61/ddr-pc-61-45-mezzanine-1d1d9b73c1-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-61/ddr-pc-61-45-mezzanine-1d1d9b73c1-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen, Vol. 109, No. 20 (December 22-29, 1989)","description":"Special holiday issue separated into sections A 1-24, B 1-24, C 1-24, D 1-24, and E 1-16. Selected article titles: \"A Tribute to Dyke Miyagawa\" (p. B1), \"A Set of Historic Redress Letters: Including Two Read by Reagan Himself\" (pp. B-6-B-7), \"JACL-LEC and Redress\" (p. C-1), \"From Evacuation to Redress: A Speech Delivered at the Third Heart Mountain Reunion\" (pp. C-16-C-17), and \"A Nikkei Problem: Improper Identification\" (pp. E-1, E-16).\r\n\r\nThe holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and chapters that included personal addresses and phone numbers to better foster communications between Japanese American communities. These addresses and phone numbers have been redacted to help protect the privacy of Japanese American communities. Please contact Densho to request the original version.","extent":"11W x 16.75H","links_children":"ddr-pc-61-45","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"Japanese American Citizens League"}],"topics":[{"term":"Arts and literature -- Literary arts -- Fiction","id":"241"},{"term":"Community activities -- Conventions and conferences","id":"299"},{"term":"Identity and values","id":"42"},{"term":"Journalism and media -- Community publications -- Pacific Citizen","id":"389"},{"term":"Redress and reparations","id":"110"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Pacific Citizen","rights":"cc","genre":"periodical","location":"Los Angeles, California","facility":[{"term":"Heart Mountain","id":"5"}],"creation":"December 22-29, 1989","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Japanese American Citizens League publisher","download_large":"ddr-pc-61-45-mezzanine-1d1d9b73c1-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-pc-46-50","model":"entity","index":"9 2559/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-46-50/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-46-50/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-46/ddr-pc-46-50-mezzanine-e9914a4d4e-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-46/ddr-pc-46-50-mezzanine-e9914a4d4e-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen, Vol. 79, No. 25 (December 20-27, 1974)","description":"Holiday issue organized into sections A 1-12, B 1-12, C 1-12, and D 1-12. Selected article titles: \"Sansei Returns to Tule Lake\" (pp. A-1, A-3), \"Fears in Tule Lake: Evacuees Remember Them\" (pp. A-1, A-3-A-4), \"Seattle Nihonmachi: Beat of the '20s and '30s\" (pp. B-1, B-9-B-10), \"Giri: Righteous Way: Inside Tanforan, Topaz\" (pp. B-4, B-8-B-9), and \"The Pearl Harbor Attack: Why and How\" (pp. D-1-D-2, D-4, D-11).\r\n\r\nThe holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and chapters that included personal addresses and phone numbers to better foster communications between Japanese American communities. These addresses and phone numbers have been redacted to help protect the privacy of Japanese American communities. Please contact Densho to request the original version.","extent":"14.5W x 22.5H","links_children":"ddr-pc-46-50","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"Japanese American Citizens League"}],"topics":[{"term":"Arts and literature -- Literary arts -- Fiction","id":"241"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- Washington -- Seattle","id":"293"},{"term":"Community activities -- Nihonmachi (\"Japantowns\")","id":"27"},{"term":"Journalism and media -- Community publications -- Pacific Citizen","id":"389"},{"term":"Reflections on the past","id":"118"},{"term":"Reflections on the past -- Camp pilgrimages","id":"81"},{"term":"World War II -- Pearl Harbor and aftermath","id":"48"},{"term":"World War II -- Resistance and dissidence -- Segregation and Tule Lake -- No no boys","id":"430"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Nakahama, Manjiro"}],"contributor":"Pacific Citizen","rights":"cc","genre":"periodical","location":"Los Angeles, California","facility":[{"term":"Topaz (Central Utah)","id":"1"},{"term":"Tule Lake","id":"10"}],"creation":"December 20-27, 1974","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Japanese American Citizens League publisher Nakahama, Manjiro","download_large":"ddr-pc-46-50-mezzanine-e9914a4d4e-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-pc-47-50","model":"entity","index":"10 2560/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-47-50/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-47-50/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-47/ddr-pc-47-50-mezzanine-9965485c7a-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-47/ddr-pc-47-50-mezzanine-9965485c7a-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen, Vol. 81, No. 25 (December 19-26, 1975)","description":"Holiday issue organized into sections A 1-12, B 1-12, C 1-12, D 1-12, and E 1-6. Selected article titles: \"Samurai of the Wine Country\" (pp. A-1, C-1, C-5, C-8, C-10-D-1), \"The Forgotten Nisei\" (pp. A-1, A-3-A-5, A-8), \"Tokie Was Naturalized 'Twice'\" (pp. A-10, B-4), \"Anti-Nisei Discrimination in the Mormon State\" (pp. B-10-B-11), and \"WW2 Gov't Cover Up: Evacuation\" (pp. E-1, E-6).\r\n\r\nThe holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and chapters that included personal addresses and phone numbers to better foster communications between Japanese American communities. These addresses and phone numbers have been redacted to help protect the privacy of Japanese American communities. Please contact Densho to request the original version.","extent":"14.5W x 22.5H","links_children":"ddr-pc-47-50","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"Japanese American Citizens League"}],"topics":[{"term":"Geographic communities","id":"270"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"},{"term":"Immigration and citizenship -- Naturalization","id":"176"},{"term":"Journalism and media -- Community publications -- Pacific Citizen","id":"389"},{"term":"Race and racism -- Discrimination","id":"37"},{"term":"Reflections on the past","id":"118"},{"term":"World War II -- Mass removal (\"evacuation\")","id":"57"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Slocum, Tokutaro"}],"contributor":"Pacific Citizen","rights":"cc","genre":"periodical","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"December 19-26, 1975","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Japanese American Citizens League publisher Slocum, Tokutaro","download_large":"ddr-pc-47-50-mezzanine-9965485c7a-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-105","model":"entity","index":"11 2561/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-105/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-105/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-yhenry-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-yhenry-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Henry Bruno Yamada Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born 1923 on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii. Volunteered for military service shortly after graduating from High School. Served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Unit in a mortar platoon during World War II. (The 442 was an entirely Asian American segregated fighting unit.) After the war, he lived on the U.S. mainland for many years before finally returning to Hawaii. In this interview he discusses his memories of growing up on the island of Kauai, entering the military, and fighting in Europe with the 442nd during WWII.
(This interview was conducted at the 1998 Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans National Convention, held in Honolulu, Hawaii. Given the full conference schedule, interviews conducted at the reunion were shorter in length than typical Densho interviews and concentrated on a single topic, namely, the individual's military service during World War II.)","extent":"00:50:12","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-105","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":106,"namepart":"Henry Bruno Yamada"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Matt Emery"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Larry Hashima"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Honolulu, Hawaii","creation":"July 3, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Henry Bruno Yamada narrator \nMatt Emery interviewer \nLarry Hashima videographer","download_large":"denshovh-yhenry-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1024-16","model":"entity","index":"12 2562/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-16/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1024-16/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-16-mezzanine-bad4f45ea8-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-16-mezzanine-bad4f45ea8-a.jpg"},"title":"A Thousand Paper Cranes: How Denver's Japanese American Community Emerged from Internment","description":"Documentary film about the wartime incarceration and about Japanese Americans in Denver after the war. Scenes shot at the Amache site today serve as a backdrop for the incarceration stories, while the segments on Denver focus on the importance of Colorado Governor Ralph Carr and on Sakura Square, the symbolic center of Colorado's Japanese American community.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: A Thousand Paper Cranes.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: A Thousand Paper Cranes.","extent":"00:38:58","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024-16","creators":[{"role":"filmmaker","namepart":"Zitzma, Amada"},{"role":"filmmaker","namepart":"Soto, Roxana A."}],"format":"av","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"nocc","genre":"motion_picture","facility":[{"term":"Granada (Amache)","id":"4"}],"creation":"2020","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Zitzma, Amada filmmaker \nSoto, Roxana A. filmmaker","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-16-mezzanine-bad4f45ea8-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1024","model":"collection","index":"13 2563/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1024/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-17-mezzanine-8f213b2ab6-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-17-mezzanine-8f213b2ab6-a.jpg"},"title":"Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films","description":"The Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films includes over 100 films and videos about the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast during World War II. With footage spanning over eighty years, from the 1940s to the present, this library includes a wide range of projects that represent diverse viewpoints on this important episode in U.S. history.\r\n\r\nThe earliest films in this library were created while the incarceration was still ongoing. Jointly produced by the War Relocation Authority and the Office of War Information, these films depicted the incarceration as benignly as possible and highlighted opportunities outside of the West Coast exclusion area, both to encourage incarcerated Japanese Americans to “resettle” in areas outside the restricted area and to encourage other Americans to accept Japanese Americans as neighbors. After decades of silence following the war, documentary films in the 1970s and 1980s—produced in the context of the Redress Movement—told a different story of racism, hardship, and forced removal and incarceration, including many works told from the perspective of Japanese Americans themselves. In the aftermath of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, an era of public funding began in the 1990s, which brought a flood of both documentary and narrative films that look at many aspects of the incarceration story.\r\n\r\nEach of the films included in this collection is accompanied by an article in the Densho Resource Guide to Media on the Japanese American Removal and Incarceration (https://resourceguide.densho.org/). Each article includes a synopsis, background information, production credits, and suggestions for further viewing, as well as links to relevant articles in Densho’s online encyclopedia (https://encyclopedia.densho.org/). \r\n\r\nThere are two primary purposes for this project: preservation and education.\r\n\r\nIt is an unfortunate fact of film history that large numbers of important films are ultimately lost to time. While the earliest government-produced films about the incarceration are readily available, a large percentage of films from the Redress era are difficult to find thirty and forty years later. With the generation of filmmakers who produced these early works aging and even passing on, this is a crucial time to preserve these works for posterity. Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) and its robust infrastructure represent the best way to ensure the preservation and availability of these films. \r\n\r\nAs current events bring renewed interest in the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, the demand for relevant educational materials increases. While recent years have seen large amounts of materials made available online—including archival documents, photographs, and online exhibitions from the National Archives, university libraries, and community organizations, such as Densho—there has not been any systematic effort to collect and preserve film and video in particular. As such, this collection represents an important archive for both historians and educators, whether to show films in classes or to explore the evolution of how the incarceration story has been told over time.\r\n\r\nDensho intends to continue adding films to this digital library, and we encourage the public, as well as filmmakers themselves, to suggest additional titles for inclusion.\r\n\r\nWe hope that the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films can both serve as a resource to help educators and researchers tell the story of the World War II incarceration, while also helping to preserve this important event’s rich filmic legacy.\r\n\r\nThe Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films was created by Densho (https://densho.org/) in collaboration with Internet Archive (https://archive.org/), and was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program (https://www.nps.gov/jacs/). The views and conclusions contained in the films in this library are those of the filmmakers and producers and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions or policies of the U.S. Government, Densho, or Internet Archive.\r\n\r\nSee this collection in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at the Internet Archive.","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024","language":[""],"contributor":"Densho","public":"1","rights":"cc","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-17-mezzanine-8f213b2ab6-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-jamsj-2-6","model":"entity","index":"14 2564/{'value': 10000, 'relation': 'gte'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-2-6/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-jamsj-2-6/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-jamsj-2/denshovh-tdave-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-jamsj-2/denshovh-tdave-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Dave Tatsuno Interview","description":"Nisei male. 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