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":"00:03:11","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-308-7","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":527,"namepart":"James O. Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Martha Nakagawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tani Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","geography":[{"term":"California","id":"\"http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7007157\""}],"rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Laguna Woods, California","creation":"November 9, 2010","status":"completed","search_hidden":"James O. Ito narrator \nMartha Nakagawa interviewer \nTani Ikeda videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-308-8","model":"segment","index":"1 451/{'value': 3003, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-308-8/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-308-8/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg"},"title":"James O. Ito Interview Segment 8","description":"Becoming head of the social affairs department in Pomona assembly center
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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":"00:02:17","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-308-2","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":527,"namepart":"James O. Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Martha Nakagawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tani Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Laguna Woods, California","creation":"November 9, 2010","status":"completed","search_hidden":"James O. Ito narrator \nMartha Nakagawa interviewer \nTani Ikeda videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-308-9","model":"segment","index":"3 453/{'value': 3003, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-308-9/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-308-9/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg"},"title":"James O. Ito Interview Segment 9","description":"Organizing the Heart Mountain camp's agricultural program
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":"00:09:41","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-308-9","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":527,"namepart":"James O. Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Martha Nakagawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tani Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Laguna Woods, California","facility":[{"term":"Heart Mountain","id":"5"}],"creation":"November 9, 2010","status":"completed","search_hidden":"James O. Ito narrator \nMartha Nakagawa interviewer \nTani Ikeda videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-308-5","model":"segment","index":"4 454/{'value': 3003, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-308-5/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-308-5/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg"},"title":"James O. Ito Interview Segment 5","description":"Attending college
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":"00:04:40","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-308-5","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":527,"namepart":"James O. Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Martha Nakagawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tani Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","geography":[{"term":"California","id":"\"http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7007157\""}],"rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Laguna Woods, California","creation":"November 9, 2010","status":"completed","search_hidden":"James O. Ito narrator \nMartha Nakagawa interviewer \nTani Ikeda videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-308-10","model":"segment","index":"5 455/{'value': 3003, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-308-10/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-308-10/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg"},"title":"James O. Ito Interview Segment 10","description":"Volunteering for the Military Intelligence Service
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":"00:03:31","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-308-10","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":527,"namepart":"James O. Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Martha Nakagawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tani Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Laguna Woods, California","creation":"November 9, 2010","status":"completed","search_hidden":"James O. Ito narrator \nMartha Nakagawa interviewer \nTani Ikeda videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-308-3","model":"segment","index":"6 456/{'value': 3003, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-308-3/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-308-3/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ijames-01-a.jpg"},"title":"James O. Ito Interview Segment 3","description":"Growing up in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California
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Born July 5, 1923, in Fukuoka, Japan while her mother and two older Nisei brothers visited relatives. Named Mitsuye Mei Yasutake at birth. From age 3, grew up in Seattle, WA. Father employed by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as interpreter for twenty years, until separated from family on December 7, 1941 and interned as an enemy alien. Attended Cleveland High School before being removed from Seattle with mother and three brothers in 1942, and incarcerated at Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Allowed temporary leave from Minidoka, to travel with brother William Toshio Yasutake to visit their father, Jack Kaichiro Yasutake, incarcerated at U.S. Department of Justice internment camp in Lordsburg, NM.
Released from Minidoka in 1943 to work and attend college in Cincinnati. Received B.A. in English and Art from New York University. M.A. in English Literature and Research from University of Chicago. Married and had four children. Moved to Southern California in 1960. Taught for 23 years at community colleges in Southern California and other institutions, retiring from Cypress College as Professor of English in 1989. Author of Camp Notes and Other Poems, first published in 1976; Desert Run, (1988); writer of numerous other essays, short stories, and poems widely anthologized in collections such as This Bridge Called My Back (1981) and Women Poets of the World (1983). Featured in \"Mitsuye and Nellie: Two American Poets,\" documentary film on Asian women in the United States, aired on national public television, 1981.Founder of MultiCultural Women Writers (MCWW), member of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), and active in many community, arts and cross-cultural programs. Elected to National Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA in 1987 and served for six years. Recipient of numerous awards and honors recognizing her professional and volunteer contributions to society.(Mitsuye Yamada was interviewed together with her two surviving brothers, William Toshio Yasutake and Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. She was interviewed individually on October 9-10, 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":"04:29:53","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-137","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":129,"namepart":"Mitsuye May Yamada"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"October 9 & 10, 2002","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Mitsuye May Yamada narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ymitsuye-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-147","model":"entity","index":"14 464/{'value': 3003, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-147/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-147/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mhelen-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mhelen-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Helen Amerman Manning Interview","description":"White female. Born March 23, 1916, in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Attended Michigan State College, then Stanford University for graduate courses, before becoming a high school teacher at the Minidoka concentration camp. 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