(This interview was conducted in Japanese. The transcript is a translation of the original interview. 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":"04:42:24","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-432","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":847,"namepart":"Yamane, Tokio"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Sachiko Takita-Ishii"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Yoko Murakawa"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr006gt3d","namepart":"Yamane, Tokio"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Japan","creation":"May 23, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Yamane, Tokio narrator \nSachiko Takita-Ishii interviewer \nYoko Murakawa interviewer Yamane, Tokio 88922nr006gt3d","download_large":"denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-111","model":"entity","index":"1 676/{'value': 691, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-111/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-111/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-iyasashi-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-iyasashi-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Yasashi Ichikawa Interview I","description":"Issei female. Born 1907 in Shimonoseki, Japan. Attended school in Japan, and was encouraged by father to study English. Married a Buddhist minister and immigrated to the United States. Lived in Fresno, California, then returned to Japan for two years. Moved to Seattle, Washington, where husband was a minister at the Seattle Buddhist Temple. During World War II, husband was arrested and imprisoned in the Crystal City Department of Justice Camp, Texas. Mrs. Ichikawa, with her seven children, was removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, then to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Joined husband in Crystal City before returning to run the Seattle Buddhist Temple.
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(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 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After the war ended and the camp was nearly empty, went into a prolonged and difficult labor, requiring that the staff reopen the hospital and she and her husband stay at Gila River after everyone else had left. 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She grew up in Gardena as the daughter of pioneer physician Kikuwo Tashiro. She remembers Gardena as it changed from a rural to suburban community. During World War II, her family moved to Fresno to avoid incarceration but was eventually imprisoned at the concentration camp at Poston concentration camp, Arizona. After leaving camp, Kaji endured primitive conditions at a Colorado sugar beet farm and moved to Denver. After the war, her family resettled in Boyle Heights where she married Bruce Kaji and moved back to Gardena. She and her husband became involved in civic activities, including the sister city programs. 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After the war ended and the camp was nearly empty, went into a prolonged and difficult labor, requiring that the staff reopen the hospital and she and her husband stay at Gila River after everyone else had left. Resettled in Fresno, California."},{"id":"ddr-csujad-29-60-1","model":"segment","index":"10 685/{'value': 691, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-60-1/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-29-60-1/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-29/ddr-csujad-29-60-1-mezzanine-bad4050dc6-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-29/ddr-csujad-29-60-1-mezzanine-bad4050dc6-a.jpg"},"title":"An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part II - Segment 1","description":"An oral history with Sumiye Takeno, a current resident of Denver, Colorado. This interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. 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Specifically, the interview covers her childhood in Florin, California, her experiences in church and sewing school; her experiences as a nurse's aide at the Manzanar incarceration camp in 1942, detailing camp life, close friends, and recreation; talks about her arranged marriage to her husband, Roy, in 1943 while incarcerated, their engagement party; her Methodist upbringing and faith, her involvement in the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) in the early 1940s; her feelings on \"baishakunin\" or what is known as arranged marriage; her family's roles and actions while living at the camp, her attitude and equipment on and about the camp; comments on her relationship between her husband and herself, her husband's family and their background in Japan, his background living in Fresno, California, size and impact of Roy's family, and change that emanates when a Japanese woman marries into another family; details the importance that medical practicing had on her family life, her husband's health and career in the 1960s while writing as a journalist and acting as an organizer for the JACL; she describes her husband's jobs for such newspapers like the Denver Post and Rocky Jiho; comments on her social circle after the camp in Manzanar, her husband's local fame as a journalist and for his involvement with JACL; she talks about Roy's leadership position in JACL and his roles in the organization in the early 1950s, her feeling about all the letters of support she received when Roy passed away; explains her move to Denver with Roy in the late 1940s due to his new job as a journalist at the Rocky Shimpo, her housing situations between the late 1940s and 1950s in Denver; discusses the location of the newspaper office, Rocky Shimpo, the restaurants and stores that surrounded the newspaper office, the location of the JACL office in 1946; she describes the JACL administration with Min Yasui's leadership in 1946, her feelings about the name change from \"Denver JACL\" to the Mile High Chapter of the JACL in Denver; discusses her family's frugal techniques, simple life, and forms of transportation post-war; her feelings on the incarceration and its effects on the Japanese American community on a national level, the impact the camps had on the communities after the war; how suburbanization impacted her family starting in 1952, the general neighborhoods in Denver that had the largest Japanese American populations; the experiences that JACL gave her, the social and legislative activities she participated in, and the change to civil rights activism in JACL in the 1960s; her feelings on the issue of redress for the Japanese Americans who were interned during the war, and her official active role in the organization in 1987; talks briefly about Min Yasui and his civil rights activism, and about James (Jim) Omura's leadership when he took over the Rocky Shimpo newspaper in 1947; and her description between the Issei and Nisei Japanese Americans. 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