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Born November 27, 1926, in Wenatchee, Washington. Grew up in Wenatchee and moved to Seattle with family in 1938. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled during World War II in Pocatello, Idaho. Returned to Seattle after World War II.","extent":"01:48:42","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-22","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":21,"namepart":"Mary Hirata"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Beth Kawahara"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr006054z","namepart":"Sasaki, Mary Mitsue"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"March 27, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Mary Hirata narrator \nBeth Kawahara interviewer \nAlice Ito interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer Sasaki, Mary Mitsue 88922nr006054z","download_large":"denshovh-hmary-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-142","model":"entity","index":"8 583/{'value': 3000, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-142/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-142/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-sroger-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-sroger-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Roger Shimomura Interview","description":"Roger Shimomura's paintings, prints, and theater pieces address sociopolitical issues of Asian America. The inspiration for many of his works are the diaries kept by his late immigrant grandmother for fifty-six years. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, and his graduate degree from Syracuse University, New York.
Shimomura has had more than 100 solo exhibitions of his paintings and prints, and has presented his experimental theater pieces at such venues as the Franklin Furnace, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. He is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in painting and performance art, a McKnight Fellowship, and a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Fellowship. He was the first artist to be awarded an international Japan Foundation Grant, as well as the first in the state to receive the Kansas Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Painting. In fall 1990, Shimomura was appointed the Dayton Hudson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Shimomura has lectured on his work at more than 160 universities and art museums across the United States. In 1994 he was designated a University Distinguished Professor on the University of Kansas faculty, the first so honored in the history of the School of Fine Arts at that campus. In 1998, he received the Higuchi Research Prize, the highest annual honor bestowed on a Kansas University faculty member in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1999, the Seattle Urban League named a scholarship for him that is awarded annually to a Seattle resident pursuing a career in art. The College Art Association presented him with the Artist Award for Most Distinguished Body of Work for 2001, in recognition of his four-year, twelve-museum national tour of the painting exhibition An American Diary.Shimomura's personal papers are being collected by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. He is represented by Jeffrey Hoffeld & Company, Inc., New York; Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago; Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City; Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami; and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle.","extent":"06:44:32","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-142","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":135,"namepart":"Roger Shimomura"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Mayumi Tsutakawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0061b4v","namepart":"Shimomura, Yutaka Roger"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"March 18 & 20, 2003","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Roger Shimomura narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nMayumi Tsutakawa interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Shimomura, Yutaka Roger 88922nr0061b4v","download_large":"denshovh-sroger-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-145","model":"entity","index":"9 584/{'value': 3000, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-145/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-145/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mfrank-04-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mfrank-04-a.jpg"},"title":"Frank Miyamoto Interview IV","description":"Nisei male. Born July 29, 1912, in Seattle, Washington. Wrote 'Social Solidarity Among the Japanese in Seattle' as a Master's thesis, published in 1939 as one of the first academic works on the Japanese immigrant community. Incarcerated in Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Member of the Evacuation and Resettlement Study which studied the incarceration and resettlement of Japanese Americans during World War II. Resettled in Seattle. Was a longtime member of the faculty in Sociology at the University of Washington, served as Chairman of his department, and was Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.(This interview focuses on the narrator's experiences working in the Alaska salmon cannery system in the 1930s.)","extent":"04:47:29","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-145","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":58,"namepart":"Frank Miyamoto"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tatsuya Fukunaga"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr010jw30","namepart":"Miyamoto, Shotaro Frank"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"July 7 & 8, 2003","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Frank Miyamoto narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nTatsuya Fukunaga interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Miyamoto, Shotaro Frank 88922nr010jw30","download_large":"denshovh-mfrank-04-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-143","model":"entity","index":"10 585/{'value': 3000, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-143/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-143/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-iruby-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-iruby-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Ruby Inouye Interview","description":"Nisei female. Born November 17, 1920, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle, and graduated salutatorian from Broadway High School. Was enrolled in the pre-medical program at the University of Washington on December 7, 1941. During the war, removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Left camp to attend the University of Texas, and later Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Returned to Seattle to open a private family medicine practice, and succeeded with the help of the Issei community. Involved in helping to establish a nursing home for Japanese Americans in Seattle, and retired from private practice at age seventy-five.","extent":"05:19:28","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-143","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":136,"namepart":"Ruby Inouye"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Dee Goto"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr006r72j","namepart":"Inouye, Ayako Ruby"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"April 3 & 4, 2003","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Ruby Inouye narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nDee Goto interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Inouye, Ayako Ruby 88922nr006r72j","download_large":"denshovh-iruby-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-379-448","model":"entity","index":"11 586/{'value': 3000, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-448/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-379-448/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-379/ddr-densho-379-448-mezzanine-77c8070183-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-379/ddr-densho-379-448-mezzanine-77c8070183-a.jpg"},"title":"CGA picnic group photograph","description":"CGA members and their descendants are Japanese Americans who owned grocery stores in Washington, DC after relocating from various relocation centers.","extent":"12W x 8H","links_children":"ddr-densho-379-448","topics":[{"term":"Community activities -- Recreational activities -- Picnics","id":"311"}],"format":"img","persons":[{"namepart":"Ito, Ken"},{"nr_id":"88922/nr011k067","namepart":"Frank Aiji Endo"},{"nr_id":"88922/nr011k23g","namepart":"Todd Isao Endo"},{"namepart":"Johnson, Marsha Endo"},{"namepart":"Johnson, Bernard"},{"namepart":"Johnson, Gregory"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"photograph","location":"Great Falls, Maryland","creation":"c. late 1990s","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Ito, Ken \nFrank Aiji Endo 88922nr011k067\nTodd Isao Endo 88922nr011k23g\nJohnson, Marsha Endo \nJohnson, Bernard \nJohnson, Gregory","download_large":"ddr-densho-379-448-mezzanine-77c8070183-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-ajah-5-59","model":"entity","index":"12 587/{'value': 3000, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-5-59/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-ajah-5-59/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-ajah-5/ddr-ajah-5-59-mezzanine-132d8b67d7-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-ajah-5/ddr-ajah-5-59-mezzanine-132d8b67d7-a.jpg"},"title":"Document with team photo and background of ATK baseball team titled Early Alameda Baseball circa 1913-1916","description":"Includes individuals names","extent":"Unknown","links_children":"ddr-ajah-5-59","creators":[{"role":"photographer","namepart":"M. 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Selected for a dangerous mission in Burma, becoming one of the famed Merrill's Marauders. Provided crucial intelligence information for the U.S. government after tapping into a Japanese army communications wire in Burma. Instrumental in a mission to hold Nhpum Ga hill in Burma, in which he shouted military orders in Japanese to confuse the attacking Japanese soldiers. Awarded the Legion of Merit from the U.S. military, and stationed in China and Japan after the war. Met future wife while working undercover in Japan. Inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame in 1993.
(Although Mr. Matsumoto does not identify himself as a Kibei (American-born person of Japanese ancestry sent to Japan for formal education and socialization when young and later returned to the U.S.), some of his life experiences are similar to those who do identify themselves as such.)","extent":"07:40:41","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-153","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":151,"namepart":"Roy H. Matsumoto"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zs43","namepart":"Matsumoto, Roy Hiroshi"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"December 17 & 18, 2003","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Roy H. 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Incarcerated with her family in the Puyallup Assembly Center with a newborn baby, moving to Minidoka concentration camp before relocating to the East Coast. Returned to Seattle in 1947 and became the first Asian American and first woman to work at the Rainier Heat and Power Company, then a key property owner and landlord in the International District. She was the first woman president of the Japanese American Citizens League, and played a lead role in the redress movement.","extent":"02:30:26","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-98","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":99,"namepart":"Shigeko Sese Uno"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Beth Kawahara"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Steve Hamada"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0044d99","namepart":"Kaneda, Grayce Ritsu"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"September 18, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Shigeko Sese Uno narrator \nBeth Kawahara interviewer \nAlice Ito interviewer \nSteve Hamada videographer Kaneda, Grayce Ritsu 88922nr0044d99","download_large":"denshovh-ushigeko-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-79","model":"entity","index":"15 590/{'value': 3000, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-79/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-79/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-smay-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-smay-01-a.jpg"},"title":"May K. 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