(Joseph Yasutake was interviewed together with his sister Mitsuye (Yasutake) Yamada and surviving brother, William Toshio Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. He was also interviewed individually on October 9, 2002.
Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct their own family history interviews. Individually and jointly, they and other family members had written and gathered material documenting their family history. They shared much of this with me to assist with research and preparation for the Densho interview. Mitsuye's daughter Jeni had coordinated much of the family history work. Jeni participated as a secondary interviewer during the group sessions, October 8-9, 2002.The group interview sessions were conducted in Seattle at the home of Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho. The oldest Yasutake sibling, Reverend Seiichi Michael Yasutake, had passed away less than a year before the Densho interviewing, in December, 2001. The remaining siblings emphasized that his absence left a gap in their discussion of family history. In addition to Jeni Yamada and videographers Dana Hoshide and John Pai, also present during some portions of the group interview were Tom Ikeda, and Mitsuye Yamada's son Kai Yamada.)","extent":"01:20:38","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-136","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":130,"namepart":"Joe Yasutake"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"October 9, 2002","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Joe Yasutake narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer","download_large":"denshovh-yjoe-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1007-1618","model":"entity","index":"4 4/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1618/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1007-1618/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1007/ddr-densho-1007-1618-mezzanine-8263463f78-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1007/ddr-densho-1007-1618-mezzanine-8263463f78-a.jpg"},"title":"Interview with Don Oka, Steve Yagi, and Shigeo Ito, part 2 of 8","description":"Oka on the left, Yagi in the center, and Ito on the right. 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Born April 9, 1922, in Seattle, Washington. Parents immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. Attended Bailey Gatzert Elementary School and Washington Middle School in Seattle before his family moved to East Los Angeles in 1936. Incarcerated in Poston Detention Camp #1, Arizona, in April 1942. While in camp, helped organize the \"Music Makers,\" a dance band. Left Poston for Chicago in 1943, and was drafted into the U.S. Army. Underwent basic training in the armored (tank) corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and was subsequently assigned to the Military Intelligence Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Married Helen Furuyama in 1945, and moved to Berkeley, California, and later to El Cerrito, a neighboring community. George earned his teaching credential and taught in the Berkeley School District for thirty-five years. He raised four children: Cole, Clay, Maia and Lian. Organized the J-Town Jazz Ensemble, a 17-piece swing band based in San Francisco, which performs at community events and festivals. Author of the book Reminiscing in Swingtime: Japanese Americans in American Popular Music, 1925-1960, published by the National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, California.","extent":"03:49:01","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-132","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":126,"namepart":"George Yoshida"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"John Pai"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0122p80","namepart":"Yoshida, George"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"February 18, 2002","status":"completed","search_hidden":"George Yoshida narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer Yoshida, George 88922nr0122p80","download_large":"denshovh-ygeorge-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-18","model":"entity","index":"6 6/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-18/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-18/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hgordon-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hgordon-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Gordon Hirabayashi Interview II","description":"Nisei male. Born April 23, 1918, in Seattle, Washington. Spent most of his childhood in Thomas, Washington, where his parents were part of a Christian farming co-op. Attended the University of Washington where he was active in the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), the conscientious objector movement, and became a Quaker. At the outbreak of World War II, he was one of only a handful of individuals to challenge the curfew and removal orders being enforced against Japanese on the West Coast, citing \"Christian principles,\" and asserting \"a duty to maintain the democratic standards for which this nation lives.\" He turned himself in to the FBI, was found guilty, and served time for violating the curfew order, and failing to report for \"evacuation.\" While serving time for this conviction, Gordon was served with a draft notice and again, refused to comply. He subsequently served another period of time as a draft resister. In 1983, a team of attorneys filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle. Gordon's convictions surrounding the incarceration were vacated by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on September 24, 1987, which argued in part that, \"racial bias was the cornerstone of the internment orders.\"","extent":"02:31:45","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-18","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":19,"namepart":"Gordon Hirabayashi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"topics":[{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"},{"term":"World War II -- Resistance and dissidence -- Supreme Court cases -- Gordon Hirabayashi","id":"97"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"May 25, 1999","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Gordon Hirabayashi narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer","download_large":"denshovh-hgordon-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-140","model":"entity","index":"7 7/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-140/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-140/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-fmitsu-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-fmitsu-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Mitsu Fukui Interview","description":"Nisei female. Born September 21, 1911, in Seattle, Washington. Had a younger sister and three younger brothers. Father, Riichiro Fukano, employed by Oriental Trading Company as a bookkeeper in Seattle, before operating a dry cleaning business. Mother, Kiyono (Miyama) Fukano, a seamstress. Learned dressmaking from mother, and helped in the shop. Family lived upstairs above the shop, in a neighborhood with few Japanese American families. Paternal grandfather and grandmother joined the household and lived with them for eleven years before returning to Japan. Father served many years as secretary of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce. Mother served as president of Buddhist Women's Association. Graduated from Lincoln High School in 1930, attended University of Washington one year, and attended school in Japan one year. While living in Fukuoka Ken, served as interpreter for Charles Lindbergh, Yasha Heifetz, and other notable visitors. Married William Owari Fukui, an Issei, in 1936. Husband also in dry cleaning business. Son born 1939. Moved back to parents' house, along with her husband and son, in order to be together with her mother and brothers, when incarcerated in Puyallup Assembly Center in May, 1942. Father had been picked up earlier by FBI, after December 7, 1941, detained and interned separately. Incarcerated in Minidoka concentration camp. Son attended nursery school in Minidoka while she and husband worked. Released on indefinite leave in 1944 with husband and son, to relocate in Detroit, MI. Car vandalized and burglarized in Minidoka camp, during their drive back to Seattle in 1945. Protested lack of assistance from Minidoka concentration camp staff. With husband, started another dry cleaning business in Seattle, overcoming discrimination in financing. Retired from dry cleaning business. Did volunteer work for Children's Hospital in Seattle for over 30 years and provided home care for two and a half years for her husband who suffered from a severe stroke. After his death, she provided volunteer services at Seattle Keiro for six and a half years.","extent":"03:11:34","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-140","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":133,"namepart":"Mitsu Fukui"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr006n532","namepart":"Fukui, Mitsu"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"December 18 & 19, 2002","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Mitsu Fukui narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer Fukui, Mitsu 88922nr006n532","download_large":"denshovh-fmitsu-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-163","model":"entity","index":"8 8/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-163/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-163/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-helaine-03-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-helaine-03-a.jpg"},"title":"Elaine Ishikawa Hayes Interview III","description":"Nisei female. Born June 30, 1923, in Willows, California. Grew up in Sacramento, California, prior to World War II. During the war, was removed to the Sacramento Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend college in Wisconsin, and later moved to Chicago, Illinois. Post-World War II, was active in many civic organizations such as the American Council on Race Relations. Later moved to Seattle, Washington, and worked for CAMP, the Central Area Motivation Program, the Model Cities program, and Public Health.","extent":"03:37:45","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-163","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":174,"namepart":"Elaine Ishikawa Hayes"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr014dw0s","namepart":"Ishikawa, Elaine"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"June 24, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Elaine Ishikawa Hayes narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer Ishikawa, Elaine 88922nr014dw0s","download_large":"denshovh-helaine-03-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-157","model":"entity","index":"9 9/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-157/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-157/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-helaine-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-helaine-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Elaine Ishikawa Hayes Interview I","description":"Nisei female. Born June 30, 1923, in Willows, California. Grew up in Sacramento, California, prior to World War II. During the war, was removed to the Sacramento Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend college in Wisconsin, and later moved to Chicago, Illinois. Post-World War II, was active in many civic organizations such as the American Council on Race Relations. Later moved to Seattle, Washington, and worked for CAMP, the Central Area Motivation Program, the Model Cities program, and Public Health.","extent":"07:56:10","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-157","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":174,"namepart":"Elaine Ishikawa Hayes"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr014dw0s","namepart":"Ishikawa, Elaine"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"May 12 & 13, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Elaine Ishikawa Hayes narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer Ishikawa, Elaine 88922nr014dw0s","download_large":"denshovh-helaine-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-158","model":"entity","index":"10 10/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-158/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-158/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-helaine-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-helaine-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Elaine Ishikawa Hayes Interview II","description":"Nisei female. Born June 30, 1923, in Willows, California. Grew up in Sacramento, California, prior to World War II. During the war, was removed to the Sacramento Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend college in Wisconsin, and later moved to Chicago, Illinois. Post-World War II, was active in many civic organizations such as the American Council on Race Relations. Later moved to Seattle, Washington, and worked for CAMP, the Central Area Motivation Program, the Model Cities program, and Public Health.","extent":"04:03:19","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-158","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":174,"namepart":"Elaine Ishikawa Hayes"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr014dw0s","namepart":"Ishikawa, Elaine"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"May 18, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Elaine Ishikawa Hayes narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer Ishikawa, Elaine 88922nr014dw0s","download_large":"denshovh-helaine-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-113","model":"entity","index":"11 11/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-113/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-113/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-blorraine-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-blorraine-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Lorraine Bannai Interview","description":"Sansei female. Born 1955 in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Gardena, California, surrounded by a large Japanese American community. Influenced by father's role in community and politics, and mother's emphasis on education. Attended University of California, Santa Barbara where she became increasingly aware of Japanese American history, issues of ethnic identity and racial inequality. Attended the University of San Francisco School of Law where she honed her commitment to political and social activism. Only a few years out of law school, she joined a team of lawyers working to reopen the Supreme Court's 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States. Convicted of violating the exclusion order during World War II, Mr. Korematsu's case went all the way to the Supreme Court where the exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans was upheld as constitutional, based on the government's argument of \"military necessity.\" Through a petition for writ of error coram nobis (establishing that the case was premised on errors of fact withheld from the judge and the defense by the prosecution), the legal team reopened the case, provided evidence that the factual underpinnings to the exclusion orders were fraudulent, and successfully had the Korematsu conviction vacated, as well as a handful of other similar convictions. In this interview, Ms. Bannai discusses the coram nobis legal team, the support for the effort among the Japanese American community, and personal lessons gained from being a part of this effort.","extent":"04:11:39","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-113","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":112,"namepart":"Lorraine Bannai"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Margaret Chon"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai/Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"March 23 & 24, 2000","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Lorraine Bannai narrator \nMargaret Chon interviewer \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai/Dana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-blorraine-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-170","model":"entity","index":"12 12/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-170/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-170/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-bpeggie-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-bpeggie-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview","description":"Nisei female. Born March 31, 1909, in Vashon Island, Washington. Raised in Vashon Island and Des Moines, Washington, before being removed with her two children to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California. Later transferred to Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and Minidoka, Idaho, before resettling in Chicago, Illinois. Lived and worked in Chicago before eventually returning to Seattle, Washington.","extent":"07:02:27","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-170","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":184,"namepart":"Peggie Nishimura Bain"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr006hx94","namepart":"Yorita, Fusako Peggy"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"September 15-17, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Peggie Nishimura Bain narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer Yorita, Fusako Peggy 88922nr006hx94","download_large":"denshovh-bpeggie-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-56-737","model":"entity","index":"13 13/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-737/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-56-737/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-56/ddr-densho-56-737-mezzanine-6c3fe4890d-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-56/ddr-densho-56-737-mezzanine-6c3fe4890d-a.jpg"},"title":"Ito is Acquitted by Federal Jury (April 2, 1942)","description":"The Seattle Daily Times, April 2, 1942, p. 3","extent":"Unknown","links_children":"ddr-densho-56-737","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"The Seattle Times Company"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Pearl Harbor and aftermath -- \"War hysteria\"","id":"187"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Ito, Kenji"},{"namepart":"Agnew, Henry Clay"},{"namepart":"Bowen, John C."},{"namepart":"Shucklin, Gerald"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"nocc","genre":"periodical","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"April 2, 1942","status":"completed","search_hidden":"The Seattle Times Company publisher Ito, Kenji \nAgnew, Henry Clay \nBowen, John C. \nShucklin, Gerald","download_large":"ddr-densho-56-737-mezzanine-6c3fe4890d-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-56-715","model":"entity","index":"14 14/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-715/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-56-715/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-56/ddr-densho-56-715-mezzanine-2157c675a5-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-56/ddr-densho-56-715-mezzanine-2157c675a5-a.jpg"},"title":"Ito on Trial as Japanese Agent (March 26, 1942)","description":"The Seattle Daily Times, March 26, 1942, p. 2","extent":"Unknown","links_children":"ddr-densho-56-715","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"The Seattle Times Company"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Pearl Harbor and aftermath -- \"War hysteria\"","id":"187"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Ito, Kenji"},{"namepart":"Bowen, John C."},{"namepart":"Bassett, Samuel B."},{"namepart":"Crandell, George H."}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"nocc","genre":"periodical","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"March 26, 1942","status":"completed","search_hidden":"The Seattle Times Company publisher Ito, Kenji \nBowen, John C. \nBassett, Samuel B. \nCrandell, George H.","download_large":"ddr-densho-56-715-mezzanine-2157c675a5-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-118","model":"entity","index":"15 15/{'value': 611, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-118/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-118/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-kmarian-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-kmarian-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Marian Asao Kurosu Interview","description":"Issei female. 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