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(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 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See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: jia_09_01_026","extent":"black and white","links_children":"ddr-csujad-25-231","topics":[{"term":"Japan -- Pre-World War II","id":"163"},{"term":"Community activities -- Festivals, celebrations, and holidays -- Boys' Day","id":"300"},{"term":"Community activities -- Festivals, celebrations, and holidays -- Girls' Day","id":"302"}],"format":"img","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library","rights":"nocc","genre":"album","location":"Japan; Taiwan","creation":"1920-1929","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-csujad-25-231-mezzanine-057d7d5def-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-38-427","model":"entity","index":"13 788/{'value': 951, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-427/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-38-427/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-427-mezzanine-9b2c621dfb-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-427-mezzanine-9b2c621dfb-a.jpg"},"title":"New Year's Day worship","description":"Photographed are Japanese women dressed in kimono visiting a shrine to worship on New Year's Day. 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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":"03:01:25","links_children":"ddr-one-7-24","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":692,"namepart":"George Katagiri"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Stephan Gilchrist"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tim Rooney"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr014h141","namepart":"Katagiri, George"}],"contributor":"Japanese American Museum of Oregon Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","creation":"September 23, 2003","status":"completed","search_hidden":"George Katagiri narrator \nStephan Gilchrist interviewer \nTim Rooney videographer Katagiri, George 88922nr014h141","download_large":"denshovh-kgeorge_3-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1003-7","model":"entity","index":"18 793/{'value': 951, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1003-7/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1003-7/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1003/denshovh-ytakenori-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1003/denshovh-ytakenori-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Takenori Yamamoto Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born February 21, 1938, in Los Angeles, California. Age three when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and was removed with family to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. After leaving camp, returned to Los Angeles. After World War II, served in the U.S. Air Force, and later became involved in numerous Japanese American community organizations, including forming Asian Pacific Lesbians and Gays.
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After leaving camp, relocated to Detroit, Michigan, before being drafted into the Military Intelligence Service. Served in Japan as an interpreter during the war crimes trials. Eventually returned to California."},{"id":"51","model":"narrator","index":"21 796/{'value': 951, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/51/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/51/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mgeorge.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mgeorge.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/51/interviews/"},"display_name":"George S. Matsui","bio":"Nisei male. Born March 1, 1915, in Los Angeles, California. Spent prewar childhood in Long Beach, California, but attended grade school and junior high in Japan. Returned to the United States to attend high school. In 1941, was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Camp Roberts, San Luis Obispo, California for basic training. 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Born May 19, 1917, in Eastport, Idaho, and spent childhood in Spokane, Washington. In 1933 traveled to Japan with family where father became ill and died. Attended school in Japan for three years and then returned to Spokane in 1936 and worked on a farm. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, volunteered for military service but failed the medical examination. During the war, took brief trips to Manzanar concentration camp, California, a camp in Arkansas, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After the war worked as a painter of large signs in Spokane."},{"id":"554","model":"narrator","index":"23 798/{'value': 951, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/554/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/554/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/lhannah.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/lhannah.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/554/interviews/"},"display_name":"Hannah Lai","bio":"Nisei female. Born April 11, 1923, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle, where parents ran a hotel. Went to live in Japan for several years prior to World War II. During the war, removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. While in Minidoka, recruited to teach elementary school, and later left camp to attend a teaching college in Wisconsin. After World War II, received a Fulbright scholarship to study special education methods in Japan. Returned to the United States and settled in Oakland, California."},{"id":"439","model":"narrator","index":"24 799/{'value': 951, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/439/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/439/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/smisako.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/smisako.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/439/interviews/"},"display_name":"Misako Shigekawa","bio":"Nisei female. Born January 2, 1909, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in California, attending the University of Southern California before World War II and graduating with a degree in pharmacy. Married and was living in Terminal Island, California, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After being removed from Terminal Island, moved to Anaheim, California, before being removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Had several children in camp. 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