(This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Because of the full conference schedule, our interviews were limited to one hour. The interviews therefore focused primarily on a single topic, namely, the narrator's role in the redress movement.)","extent":"00:38:01","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-97","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":98,"namepart":"Grant Ujifusa"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Becky Fukuda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Cherry Kinoshita"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"University of CA, Los Angeles","creation":"September 13, 1997","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Grant Ujifusa narrator \nBecky Fukuda interviewer \nCherry Kinoshita interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ugrant-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-19","model":"entity","index":"11 36/{'value': 43, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-19/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-19/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-uclifford-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-uclifford-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Clifford Uyeda Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born January 14, 1917, in Olympia, Washington. Raised in Washington before attending the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated in 1940. Earned medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, and completed his residency at Harvard Medical School in 1949. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and worked as a pediatrician in San Francisco. While president of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), worked to support the redress movement of the 1980s.
(This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.)","extent":"01:43:47","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-19","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":162,"namepart":"Clifford Uyeda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"May 5, 1996","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Clifford Uyeda narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-uclifford-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"122","model":"narrator","index":"12 37/{'value': 43, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/122/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/122/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ipeter.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ipeter.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/122/interviews/"},"display_name":"Peter Irons","bio":"White male. 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(This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.
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":"01:06:01","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-16","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":122,"namepart":"Peter Irons"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"November 11, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Peter Irons narrator","download_large":"denshovh-ipeter-03-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-430-75","model":"entity","index":"17 42/{'value': 43, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-430-75/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-430-75/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-430/ddr-densho-430-75-mezzanine-2c766a2775-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-430/ddr-densho-430-75-mezzanine-2c766a2775-a.jpg"},"title":"Personnel Security questionnaire","description":"Filled out Personnel Security Questionnaire for Kichio Allen Arai.","extent":"8.5W x 13.5H","links_children":"ddr-densho-430-75","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Arai, Kichio Allen"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Arai, Kichio Allen \"Anky\""},{"namepart":"Arai, Shimakichi"},{"namepart":"Arai, Yuki Yone (Yamabe)"},{"namepart":"Arai, Nobuko Gertrude (Kawaguchi)"},{"namepart":"Arai, Donald Noburo"},{"namepart":"Arai, Gerald Yoshio"},{"namepart":"Arai, David Yukio"},{"namepart":"Mar, Joanne (Arai)"},{"namepart":"Kawaguchi, Tamejiro"},{"namepart":"Arai, Sakai"},{"namepart":"Arai, Kazuo"},{"namepart":"Arai, Hide"},{"namepart":"Okada, Hana"},{"namepart":"Kawaguchi, Sumi"},{"namepart":"Sakai, Tama"},{"namepart":"Shimizu, Toyo"},{"namepart":"Koba, Yuki"},{"namepart":"Harvard University"},{"namepart":"Stafford, Harry L."},{"namepart":"Japanese American Citizens League"},{"namepart":"Minidoka Parent-Soldier Association"},{"namepart":"Mohan, Ada J."},{"namepart":"Strassburger, R.E."},{"namepart":"Blanco, Manuel"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"ephemera","facility":[{"term":"Minidoka","id":"8"}],"creation":"c. 1944","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Arai, Kichio Allen author Arai, Kichio Allen \"Anky\" \nArai, Shimakichi \nArai, Yuki Yone (Yamabe) \nArai, Nobuko Gertrude (Kawaguchi) \nArai, Donald Noburo \nArai, Gerald Yoshio \nArai, David Yukio \nMar, Joanne (Arai) \nKawaguchi, Tamejiro \nArai, Sakai \nArai, Kazuo \nArai, Hide \nOkada, Hana \nKawaguchi, Sumi \nSakai, Tama \nShimizu, Toyo \nKoba, Yuki \nHarvard University \nStafford, Harry L. \nJapanese American Citizens League \nMinidoka Parent-Soldier Association \nMohan, Ada J. \nStrassburger, R.E. \nBlanco, Manuel","download_large":"ddr-densho-430-75-mezzanine-2c766a2775-a.jpg"}],"query":{"query":{"query_string":{"query":"Harvard University","fields":["id","model","links_html","links_json","links_img","links_thumb","links_children","status","public","title","description","contributor","creators","creators.namepart","facility","format","genre","geography","label","language","creation","location","persons","rights","topics","image_url","display_name","bio","extent","search_hidden"],"analyze_wildcard":false,"allow_leading_wildcard":false,"default_operator":"AND"}},"aggs":{"facility":{"nested":{"path":"facility"},"aggs":{"facility_ids":{"terms":{"field":"facility.id","size":1000}}}},"format":{"terms":{"field":"format"}},"genre":{"terms":{"field":"genre"}},"rights":{"terms":{"field":"rights"}},"topics":{"nested":{"path":"topics"},"aggs":{"topics_ids":{"terms":{"field":"topics.id","size":1000}}}}},"_source":["id","model","links_html","links_json","links_img","links_thumb","links_children","status","public","title","description","contributor","creators","creators.namepart","facility","format","genre","geography","label","language","creation","location","persons","rights","topics","image_url","display_name","bio","extent","search_hidden"]}}