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Published short story And the Soul Shall Dance, which was adapted into a successful play and then a television drama."},{"id":"915","model":"narrator","index":"6 706/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/915/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/915/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-468_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-468_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/915/interviews/"},"display_name":"Norm Hayashi","bio":"Sansei male. Born September 11, 1939, in Oakland, California. Grandfather, father, and other family members established a nursery business in San Francisco, California prior to World War II. During the war, removed with family to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After the war, the family returned to San Francisco and reestablished the nursery. 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After the war, worked for attorney Wayne Collins while he fought on behalf of Japanese Americans who renounced their U.S. citizenship in the camps."},{"id":"904","model":"narrator","index":"8 708/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/904/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/904/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-456_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-456_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/904/interviews/"},"display_name":"Hatsuko Mary Higuchi","bio":"Nisei female. Born January 31, 1939, in Los Angeles County, California. At a young age, removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona, with family. After leaving camp, returned to family's farm in Lawndale, California. Father passed away early, leaving her mother to run the farm. Hatsuko Mary became a teacher, establishing an education career in Torrance, California, for many years. 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Born July 29, 1919, in Los Angeles, California. Went to live in Japan as a college student, returning just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada concentration camp, Colorado, before leaving to attend the University of Nebraska. Worked as a curator in the university's art museum and for the City of Lincoln, Nebraska. Worked for and was greatly influenced by noted socialist Norman Thomas."},{"id":"657","model":"narrator","index":"12 712/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/657/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/657/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/skenji.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/skenji.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/657/interviews/"},"display_name":"Kenji Suematsu","bio":"Nisei male. Born April 29, 1934, in Brawley, California. 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He was elected to the Gardena city council in 1972, and in 1973 was elected to the California State Legislature. In 1980, Mr. Bannai became the executive director of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC). 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In 1981, he was appointed chief director of the Memorial Affairs Department of the Veterans Administration by President Ronald Reagan.","extent":"02:34:58","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-150","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":123,"namepart":"Paul Bannai"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0099c15","namepart":"Bannai, Paul Takeo"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"December 29, 2000","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Paul Bannai narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Bannai, Paul Takeo 88922nr0099c15","download_large":"denshovh-bpaul-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"405","model":"narrator","index":"15 715/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/405/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/405/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/kgrace.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/kgrace.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/405/interviews/"},"display_name":"Grace Watanabe Kimura","bio":"Nisei female. 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Born October 8, 1942, in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, mother and father received special dispensation to delay going to the Santa Anita Assembly Center to give birth. After Susumu was born, the family was sent to Santa Anita and then the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, and later transferred to Tule Lake, California. After leaving camp, went to live at Seabrook Farms, New Jersey, where father was a Buddhist priest. Eventually moved to Chicago, Illinois."},{"id":"961","model":"narrator","index":"18 718/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/961/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/961/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1020-10_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1020-10_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/961/interviews/"},"display_name":"Kay Ochi","bio":"Born in San Diego, California. During the Redress Movement, the Department of Justice's Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established to identify and administer reparations payments to eligible individuals. Acted as a community liaison with the ORA from 1989 to 2000 as an officer of the Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) in Los Angeles. On behalf of NCRR, continued to speak about the wartime incarceration and the redress campaign to schools and community groups."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-132","model":"entity","index":"19 719/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-132/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-132/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ygeorge-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ygeorge-01-a.jpg"},"title":"George Yoshida Interview","description":"Nisei male. 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. 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Moved to San Francisco to attend San Francisco State, joined the Asian American Political Alliance, and became involved in the Third World Liberation Front strikes. Began working for City Lights Booksellers and Publishers in 1970."},{"id":"1050","model":"narrator","index":"24 724/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/1050/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/1050/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-535_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-535_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/1050/interviews/"},"display_name":"Nick Nagatani","bio":"Sansei male. Born August 6, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois. Spent in early life in Chicago before family moved to Los Angeles, California, where father worked in the defense industry. Joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War. 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