(This interview was conducted by the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, and is part of a project entitled \"Lasting Stories: The Resettlement of San Jose Japantown,\" a collaborative project between the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and Densho.)","extent":"00:40:37","links_children":"ddr-jamsj-2-2","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":187,"namepart":"Richard Onishi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Kristin Okimoto"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Mike Izumi"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr011230r","namepart":"Onishi, Richard"}],"contributor":"Japanese American Museum of San Jose Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Jose, California","creation":"October 25, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Richard Onishi narrator \nKristin Okimoto interviewer \nMike Izumi videographer Onishi, Richard 88922nr011230r","download_large":"denshovh-orichard-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"625","model":"narrator","index":"2 152/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/625/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/625/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/hike.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/hike.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/625/interviews/"},"display_name":"Ike Hatchimonji","bio":"Nisei male. 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During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. After leaving camp, lived for a time in Detroit, Michigan, before eventually returning to California."},{"id":"160","model":"narrator","index":"4 154/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/160/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/160/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/tpaul.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/tpaul.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/160/interviews/"},"display_name":"Paul Tsuneishi","bio":"Nisei male, born April 16, 1923. Incarcerated at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, and was drafted into the military at age eighteen. After World War II, served as a district governor for the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) in Southern California. 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Opened owned business, George's Service Center, in San Jose's Japantown following World War II."},{"id":"948","model":"narrator","index":"6 156/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/948/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/948/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-chi-1-9_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-chi-1-9_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/948/interviews/"},"display_name":"Jane Kaihatsu","bio":"Sansei female. Born June 2, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois. During World War II, her father's family was sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Her mother's family was incarcerated at the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Gila River concentration camp, Arizona. After leaving camp the Jane's parents resettled in Chicago, Illinois, which is where she was born and raised."},{"id":"433","model":"narrator","index":"7 157/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/433/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/433/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/kdorothy.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/kdorothy.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/433/interviews/"},"display_name":"Dorothy Kuwaye","bio":"Nisei female. Born May 7, 1928, in Covina, California. At young age, suffered an accident in which she was hit by a car, and was raised by a non-Japanese American family. During World War II, rejoined biological family in the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Lived for a time in New York after leaving camp, and eventually returned to California."},{"id":"916","model":"narrator","index":"8 158/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/916/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/916/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-470_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-470_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/916/interviews/"},"display_name":"Amy Iwasaki Mass","bio":"Nisei female. Born July 5, 1935, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles, where father ran a produce business. During World War II, removed to the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. After leaving camp, returned to family home in Los Angeles. Became a social worker, one of the few Japanese American women in the field at that time."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-286","model":"entity","index":"9 159/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-286/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-286/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-nhitoshi-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-nhitoshi-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Hitoshi \"Hank\" Naito Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born April 20, 1926, in San Diego, California. Grew up in Terminal Island, California, where father was a fisherman. During World War II, removed with family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Family was transferred to Tule Lake in response to father's answers on the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire.\" Turned eighteen in Tule Lake, and also signed \"no-no\" on the questionnaire and renounced U.S. citizenship. Sent to Fort Lincoln (Bismarck) internment camp, North Dakota before going to Japan and reuniting with family. Lived in Japan for a number of years, taking a job with the U.S. army, and volunteering for the U.S. Air Force. Eventually regained citizenship and returned to the U.S.","extent":"02:43:15","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-286","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":489,"namepart":"Hitoshi \"Hank\" Naito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0093h8w","namepart":"Naito, Hitoshi"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Honolulu, Hawaii","creation":"June 11, 2010","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Hitoshi \"Hank\" Naito narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Naito, Hitoshi 88922nr0093h8w","download_large":"denshovh-nhitoshi-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"821","model":"narrator","index":"10 160/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/821/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/821/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mrichard_2.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mrichard_2.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/821/interviews/"},"display_name":"Richard M. Murakami","bio":"Sansei male. Born January 29, 1932, in Florin, California. Grew up in Sacramento, California, where father ran a farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, returned with family to Florin. Removed to the Marysville Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire\" in 1943, transferred to the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. After leaving camp, returned to the Florin/Sacramento area."},{"id":"187","model":"narrator","index":"11 161/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/187/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/187/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/orichard.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/orichard.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/187/interviews/"},"display_name":"Richard Onishi","bio":"Nisei male. Born October 15, 1931, in Kapaa, Kauai, Hawaii. Moved to San Jose, California, from Hawaii in 1936. Grew up in San Jose's Japantown before the onset of World War II. Removed to Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Returned with family to San Jose, after the war, and helped to establish family business, Onishi Florist, in San Jose's Japantown."},{"id":"537","model":"narrator","index":"12 162/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/537/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/537/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ygeorge_5.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ygeorge_5.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/537/interviews/"},"display_name":"George Yoshinaga","bio":"Nisei male. Born July 19, 1925, in Redwood City California. Grew up in San Jose, California. During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Served in the military in the U.S. Counterintelligence Corps during the war in Japan. After the war, worked as a journalist, writing the regular column, \"Horse's Mouth,\" in the Rafu Shimpo."},{"id":"ddr-densho-400-14","model":"entity","index":"13 163/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-14/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-400-14/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-400/ddr-densho-400-14-mezzanine-4fc2f8b92b-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-400/ddr-densho-400-14-mezzanine-4fc2f8b92b-a.jpg"},"title":"Ryo Komae Interview","description":"Ryo Komae was born on July 26, 1918, in Los Angeles, California. He was one of three children, and his parents were Tojiro and Komaji Komae. His father was \"watchman\" (security guard) for the Los Angeles City Market and his mother was a housewife. During World War II, he was removed with his family to the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. During the war he enlisted in the army and served with the Military Intelligence Service. After the war, he went to New York and eventually moved to Gardena, California.\r\n\r\nThis interview is part of the South Bay History Project created by the South Bay Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.","extent":"1:06:27","links_children":"ddr-densho-400-14","creators":[{"role":"narrator","namepart":"Ryo Komae"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Ron Ikejiri"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Military service -- Military Intelligence Service","id":"91"}],"format":"av","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"California","creation":"May 13, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Ryo Komae narrator \nRon Ikejiri interviewer","download_large":"ddr-densho-400-14-mezzanine-4fc2f8b92b-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-6","model":"entity","index":"14 164/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-6/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-6/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-kmits-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-kmits-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Mits Koshiyama Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born August 7, 1924, in Mountain View, California. Grew up in the Santa Clara Valley, California, working on his family's leased strawberry farm. In June of 1942, he was involuntarily \"evacuated\" to Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, then to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Graduated from high school in camp and at the age of 19, refused induction into the military on the grounds that the incarceration violated his Constitutional rights as an American citizen. Served two years at McNeil Island federal penitentiary, Washington. Later resettled in California and established a flower nursery business with his brother.
(This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. 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Born July 17, 1914, in Gardena, California. Passively resisted \"evacuation\" in 1942, forcing two soldiers to carry him out of his home. Incarcerated at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, and became one of the steering committee leaders of the Fair Play Committee (FPC). Was tried along with the other FPC leaders and was convicted to conspiracy to counsel draft evasion. Served time in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, Kansas, and then returned home to California."},{"id":"650","model":"narrator","index":"16 166/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/650/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/650/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/hjohn_2.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/hjohn_2.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/650/interviews/"},"display_name":"John Y. Hayakawa","bio":"Nisei male. Born April 2, 1918, in San Francisco, California. Grew up in San Jose, California, where father ran a farm. Was an active member of the Japanese American Citizens League and helped to run the San Jose office after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. After the war, returned to San Jose."},{"id":"142","model":"narrator","index":"17 167/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/142/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/142/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/efrank.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/efrank.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/142/interviews/"},"display_name":"Frank Emi","bio":"Nisei male. Born September 23, 1916, in Los Angeles, California. Attended Los Angeles City College for one year before leaving to run the family produce business. Married and had a daughter before being removed to Pomona Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. The leader of Heart Mountain's Fair Play Committee, was convicted of resisting the draft, and was imprisoned for eighteen months at Leavenworth, Kansas. After leaving prison, worked for the U.S. post office and the California state unemployment office. Mr. Emi practiced judo as a young person before the war, and postwar, taught at the Hollywood Judo Dojo."},{"id":"222","model":"narrator","index":"18 168/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/222/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/222/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ykazue.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ykazue.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/222/interviews/"},"display_name":"Kazue Yamamoto","bio":"Nisei female. Born January 14, 1927, in Wapato, Washington, where family operated a truck farm. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to North Portland Assembly Center and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Family left camp in 1945 for Spokane, Washington. Worked as a domestic on Spokane's South Hill before becoming a licensed beautician. Married husband Dick Yamamoto in 1952. Although raised Buddhist, was baptized in 1963 and was active with the Highland Park Methodist Church."},{"id":"994","model":"narrator","index":"19 169/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/994/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/994/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-503_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-503_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/994/interviews/"},"display_name":"Elliot Yoshinobu Horikoshi","bio":"Nisei male. Born December 26, 1938, in Salem, Oregon. Family moved frequently before the war due to father's profession as a Methodist minister. During World War II, removed to Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. After leaving camp, family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where father could attend graduate seminary school. Eventually moved to Oakland, California, where Mr. Horikoshi attended college and became a pharmacist. Married and raised a family in California's Bay Area."},{"id":"1054","model":"narrator","index":"20 170/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/1054/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/1054/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-phljacl-1-1_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-phljacl-1-1_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/1054/interviews/"},"display_name":"Mary Ishimoto Watanabe","bio":"Nisei female. Born September 29, 1920, in San Jose, California. Grew up in Cupertino, California. Attending San Jose State College when World War II broke out. Sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Left camp with the help of the National Student Relocation Council to attend graduate school. Completed a doctorate degree at Cambridge College in Boston before getting married and moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Taught at the University of Pennsylvania."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-537","model":"entity","index":"21 171/{'value': 829, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-537/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-537-1-mezzanine-05c0123557-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-537-1-mezzanine-05c0123557-a.jpg"},"title":"Lon Inaba Interview","description":"Sansei male. Born September 15, 1955, in Yakima, Washington. Grew up in the Yakima area, where several generations of family members had run a farm since before World War II. Prior to the war, since Japanese immigrants were barred from purchasing land, Lon's grandfather and great-grandfather had leased land from the Yakama Indian tribe. After they were sent to the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, during the war, they returned and continued farming, again with the support of the Yakama Nation. Lon earned a degree in agricultural engineering, and after working for a time on the Hanford nuclear reservation, returned to take over the farm with family members. 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