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Transferred to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, as a result of parents' answers on the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire.\" After leaving camp, returned to California, attended school, and served in the California Air National Guard. Earned a Masters in Education and became a teacher. In 1998, elected to the California State Legislature. Appointed by the Speaker in January 2002 to serve as Democractic Caucus Chair and became one of the highest-ranking Asian Americans in the State Legislature."},{"id":"594","model":"narrator","index":"1 726/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/594/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/594/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/iart_2.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/iart_2.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/594/interviews/"},"display_name":"Art Ishida","bio":"Nisei male. Born June 2, 1921, in Fresno, California. Grew up in the Gardena area of Los Angeles, California, before moving to Japan with parents in 1929 and returning to California in the 1930s. During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Gave a qualified answer on the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire and was transferred to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Moved briefly to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, before being released from camp and living in Chicago, Illinois. Drafted into the military and served in Korea as an interpreter for the Military Intelligence Service. Eventually returned to California."},{"id":"143","model":"narrator","index":"2 727/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/143/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/143/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/yhisaye.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/yhisaye.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/143/interviews/"},"display_name":"Hisaye Yamamoto","bio":"Nisei female. Born August 23, 1921, in Redondo Beach, California. Raised in California before mass removal to Parker Dam Assembly Center, Arizona, which was later converted into Poston concentration camp. An aspiring writer, worked for the camp newspaper, the Poston Chronicle, while incarcerated. After leaving camp, returned to California and worked for the Los Angeles Tribune. In 1988, published a book titled Seventeen Syllables and other stories. Hisaye received an American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Before Columbus Foundation, and several of her short stories were adapted into a PBS film, \"Hot Summer Winds.\""},{"id":"608","model":"narrator","index":"3 728/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/608/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/608/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ymits.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ymits.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/608/interviews/"},"display_name":"Mits Yamasaki","bio":"Nisei male. Born February 3, 1924, in Caldwell, Idaho. In the early 1930s, sent with brothers to live in the Shonien orphanage in Los Angeles after mother develops tuberculosis. Remained in Shonien until the onset of World War II. During the war, removed with a friend's family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Rohwer concentration camp, Arkansas. Left camp to live and work in Chicago, Illinois, and served with the Military Intelligence Service in Japan during the U.S. occupation."},{"id":"ddr-csujad-38-107","model":"entity","index":"4 729/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-107/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-38-107/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-107-mezzanine-737f530784-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-107-mezzanine-737f530784-a.jpg"},"title":"George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten note: postcard business at the Tule Lake camp","description":"George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten note describing his business at the Tule Lake camp in California. English translation: Geroge Naohara made postcards, adding his illustrations on blank cards, and sold them at the Post Exchange at the Tule Lake camp where his old friend worked. George's friend helped him to sell his postcards at the store. The friend used to be a intermediary for vegetables at a market on the 7th Street, Downtown Los Angeles before the war, purchasing lettuces for retailers in Long Beach. Because George and he were acquaintances for a long time, the friend agreed to help George to sell the postcards at the his work place at the Tule Lake. George mail ordered a printer and printed images on postcards, working with Atsushi Art Ishida and George Kimura who resided in Block 7 at the camp. They purchased a blank postcard at 1 cent and sold a printed postcard at 30 cents. They earned 250 dollars for each share and left for Chicago to reestablish their lives. Item from \"George Naohara photo album\" (csudh_nao_0001), page 23. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: <a href=\"http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/15676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nao_01_23_004</a>","extent":"10 x 1.5 inches","links_children":"ddr-csujad-38-107","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Naohara, George, 1919-2014"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Work and jobs","id":"76"},{"term":"World War II -- Leaving camp -- \"Resettlement\"","id":"104"}],"format":"img","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"misc_document","location":"Newell, California","facility":[{"term":"Tule Lake","id":"10"}],"creation":"1944-1945","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Naohara, George, 1919-2014 author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-38-107-mezzanine-737f530784-a.jpg"},{"id":"18","model":"narrator","index":"5 730/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/18/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/18/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/haiko.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/haiko.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/18/interviews/"},"display_name":"Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga","bio":"Nisei female. Born August 5, 1924, in Sacramento, California. Grew up in Sacramento and Los Angeles. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California, and transferred to the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Washington representative and researcher for National Council for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR) and primary archival researcher for the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), and the three coram nobis cases. Consultant to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History exhibition. \"A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution\"; and consultant for the Justice Department's Office of Redress Administration."},{"id":"170","model":"narrator","index":"6 731/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/170/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/170/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/oarthur.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/oarthur.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/170/interviews/"},"display_name":"Arthur Ogami","bio":"Nisei male. Born April 10, 1922, in Whittier, California. Spent childhood in California, before being removed to Manzanar concentration camp in 1942. Left Manzanar several times to work as a beet topper for local farmers. Decided to expatriate to Japan because of mother's wishes, and was transferred to Tule Lake concentration camp. In 1945, was moved with brother to Bismarck, North Dakota, a Department of Justice camp, before renouncing U.S. citizenship and traveling with family to Japan. Lived and worked in Japan until the 1950s, when he was able have his U.S. citizenship reinstated and return to the U.S. Raised family in Los Angeles, California."},{"id":"415","model":"narrator","index":"7 732/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/415/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/415/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/sfrank.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/sfrank.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/415/interviews/"},"display_name":"Frank Sumida","bio":"Nisei male. Born August 10, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois. Grew up primarily in Los Angeles, California, where parents ran a restaurant. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, where he participating in running an organized gambling operation. Moved briefly to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, before being sent to Tule Lake, California, after signing the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire.\" Transferred to the Santa Fe Department of Justice internment camp, New Mexico. Upon wishes of parents, renounced U.S. citizenship and expatriated to Japan. Worked for the military government during the U.S. occupation of Japan. Eventually regained U.S. citizenship and returned to the United States."},{"id":"898","model":"narrator","index":"8 733/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/898/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/898/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-450_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-450_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/898/interviews/"},"display_name":"Alan Nishio","bio":"Sansei male. Born August 9, 1945, at the Manzanar concentration camp, California, where his parents were incarcerated during World War II. Grew up in the Venice area of California, and became increasingly politically active while attending the University of California, Berkeley, during the Free Speech Movement during the late 1960s. Earned a master's degree at the University of Southern California, then helped to found the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Became an administrator at California State University, Long Beach, eventually advancing to the position of Associate Vice President, Student Services. Became a community activist in Los Angeles and helped to form several important community organizations such as the Little Tokyo People's Rights Organization and the Little Tokyo Service Center."},{"id":"ddr-csujad-38-2","model":"entity","index":"9 734/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-2/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-38-2/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-2-mezzanine-d47a6b93d2-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-2-mezzanine-d47a6b93d2-a.jpg"},"title":"George Naohara's handwritten annotations","description":"English translations of handwritten annotations from \"George Naohara photo album\" (csudh_nao_0001), page 4: [Left] Several meetings were held in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, prior to moving to the Manzanar incarceration camp in California. I attended those meetings. What was announced was that all Japanese Americans residing in California and the West Coast should move to “War Relocation Centers” and we, Japanese Americans, complied with the decision made by the U.S. government. We gathered at the Merynoll School in Los Angeles. We were directed to get on a train at the Union Station and sent to the Manzanar incarceration camp. We were allowed to bring one suitcase and one gallon of water. I was incarcerated. Two to three month later, the recruitment of farm laborers was announced: \"Farm laborers for sugar beets are needed in Idaho and Utah. Volunteers will be transported by bus. Follow the instructions.\" I signed up my name and became one of the passengers in a bus. In the bus, I run into Tadashi Sakaida age at 17. Tadashi Sakaida was one of the passengers of the Kamakura-maru which was the ship that I got on when sailing from Japan to the U.S. He was one of my friends. We was delighted to be reunited, and we both worked in a farm together for two years, earning one dollar per hour.       [Center] After incarcerated in the Manzanar camp in California, the recruitment of farm laborers for sugar beets was announced. Maybe about 150 people were hired. I was assigned to C.C.C. Camp [Civilian Conservation Corps Camp] in Rupert, Idaho, where young trouble makers were detained. I went to Idaho. They immediately needed to accommodate three meals for all the laborers, and the mess hall work was an urgent demand. That was my first time to meet the cooks and other staff in the mess hall, and I did not know who they were. Among the mess hall staff, George Naohara was a young man at age 20. The mess hall staff consisted of six people. The kitchen work was very busy.  [Right bottom] The mess hall of C.C.C. Camp [Civilian Conservation Corps Camp] was well furnished with good kitchen appliances and tools. I was raised in Japan and did not know how to operate or use them, but I was able to figure it out. Senior people and the experienced people taught me how to cook. I was impressed by the facilities in America and admired the advanced lifestyle which was totally different from that of Issei strawberry pickers. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: <a href=\"http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/15687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nao_01_004</a>","extent":"1 page, 8 x 8.75 inches, handwritten; black and white","links_children":"ddr-csujad-38-2","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Naohara, George, 1919-2014"}],"topics":[{"term":"Identity and values -- Kibei","id":"45"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California -- Los Angeles","id":"272"},{"term":"World War II -- Mass removal (\"evacuation\") -- Japanese American community responses","id":"52"},{"term":"World War II -- Mass removal (\"evacuation\") -- Preparation","id":"189"},{"term":"World War II -- Leaving camp -- Work leave","id":"103"}],"format":"doc","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"misc_document","facility":[{"term":"Manzanar","id":"7"}],"status":"completed","search_hidden":"Naohara, George, 1919-2014 author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-38-2-mezzanine-d47a6b93d2-a.jpg"},{"id":"1016","model":"narrator","index":"10 735/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/1016/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/1016/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-525_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-525_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/1016/interviews/"},"display_name":"Mike Murase","bio":"Sansei male. Born January 25, 1947, in Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan. Moved to the U.S. with family at age nine and grew up in Los Angeles, California. Graduated from UCLA and was involved in a number of civil rights movements and organizations. One of the founders of Gidra, the groundbreaking Asian American publication. Worked for both of Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns and then became district director for Congresswoman Maxine Waters. Co-founded the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Little Tokyo Service Center, and was also active in numerous community social service and activist organizations."},{"id":"139","model":"narrator","index":"11 736/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/139/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/139/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/khiroshi.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/khiroshi.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/139/interviews/"},"display_name":"Hiroshi Kashiwagi","bio":"Nisei male. Born November 8, 1922, in Sacramento, California. Spent childhood and adolescence in Loomis, California, before spending senior year in high school in Los Angeles, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to Marysville Assembly Center, California, and then to Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Resisted the draft and renounced U.S. citizenship, remaining with family in Tule Lake when it was designated a \"segregation center.\" Left camp to attend college in California. Working with Wayne Collins after World War II, was able to get U.S. citizenship reinstated in the 1950s. Worked for the San Francisco public library post-World War II. A playwright and actor, Mr. Kashiwagi has performed in many stage productions and has written several plays, including Laughter and False Teeth and Betrayed."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-113","model":"entity","index":"12 737/{'value': 763, '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":"907","model":"narrator","index":"13 738/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/907/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/907/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-459_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-459_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/907/interviews/"},"display_name":"Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi","bio":"Sansei female. Born December 4, 1935, in Sawtelle, California. Grew up in Huntington Beach, California, where father worked as a chauffeur. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was picked up by the FBI and taken to the Tuna Canyon Detention Station. He rejoined the family at the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the family was then sent to the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Parents decided to go to Japan and were sent to Tule Lake, but eventually decided to remain in the United States. After leaving camp, returned to Los Angeles. Barbara was active in camp pilgrimages and reunions after the war, as well as volunteering for the Japanese American National Museum."},{"id":"410","model":"narrator","index":"14 739/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/410/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/410/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/hjune.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/hjune.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/410/interviews/"},"display_name":"June M. Hoshida Honma","bio":"Nisei female. Born June 23, 1936, in Hilo, Hawaii. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, father was picked up by the FBI and detained at Sand Island internment camp, Hawaii. The rest of the family was removed to the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, to be reunited with him. After Jerome closed, transferred to the Gila River concentration camp, Arizona. Returned to Hawaii after leaving camp, where father tried to establish an appliance repair business in Hilo, which was destroyed by a tsunami in 1946. Married and moved to California. Active with the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles."},{"id":"ddr-csujad-29-25","model":"entity","index":"15 740/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-25/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-29-25/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-29/ddr-csujad-29-25-mezzanine-e57a00af11-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-29/ddr-csujad-29-25-mezzanine-e57a00af11-a.jpg"},"title":"An Oral History with Margaret Masuoka","description":"An interview with Margaret Masuoka, a volunteer at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), conducted for the Japanese American Project at California State Fullerton's Center for Oral and Public History. 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She describes her incarceration in the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center and in the Poston camp in southeastern Arizona; and  her family's togetherness during these periods of incarceration; her engagement to Dave Masuoka in the camps; her family's journey to join her sisters in the Poston incarceration camp; her exit from the camp and process of finding a sponsor; her experience as a docent for JANM and of telling her story to her grandson's class; Dave's family history and his involvement in the Second World War; a close friend's family and their involvement in 442nd army infantry known as the Japanese unit in World War II; the impact of this friendship and how it led to an exhibition in JANM; and her thoughts on the impact of this story on American history. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0048. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: <a href=\"http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5288_T01</a>","extent":"1:37:04","links_children":"ddr-csujad-29-25","creators":[{"role":"interviewee","namepart":"Masuoka, Margaret"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Carrillo, Chuck"},{"role":"publisher","namepart":"California State University, Fullerton. 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After leaving camp, returned to California and started a gardening business in Gardena, California. Ronald attended UCLA and then graduated from the Northrop University School of Law. In the late 1970s, took a position as the Washington representative for the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and worked during the redress movement. Elected to the Gardena City Council in 2001."},{"id":"964","model":"narrator","index":"17 742/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/964/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/964/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1021-2_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1021-2_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/964/interviews/"},"display_name":"Geri Handa","bio":"Geri Handa was born in San Jose, California, in 1948, and studied in the early 1970s at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a focus on community organizing and social services for seniors. She joined Asians for Community Actions in San Jose and worked at Keiro Nursing Home in Los Angeles while she was still attending the school. In the early 1980s, Handa became involved with Friends of Hibakusha, a group created in support of US survivors of the atomic bombings. Since then, she has been one of the most active members of the organization. A Sansei, Handa has worked with Sansei lawyers and attorneys who took interest in US hibakusha from civil rights viewpoints, including Donald K. Tamaki whose oral history is part of this collection. She has worked with representatives of the Asian Law Alliances, the Asian Law Caucus, and the Japanese American Citizens League, in order to secure US government's recognition of US survivors. Although their effort ultimately failed, Handa says that it is \"remarkable\" that US survivors gained recognition and support for treating their radiation illnesses from the Japanese government. She has been a key organizer of the medical checkups conducted by Japanese physicians in San Francisco every other year since 1977. 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When World War II broke out, was summarily discharged from the army, reclassified to an enlisted reserve unit, and sent to Santa Anita Assembly Center and then incarcerated at Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Within two months of being incarcerated, was recalled for duty in the Military Intelligence Service. Received Bronze Star for securing the surrender of Japanese military and nonmilitary personnel on the island of Saipan. Served with MacArthur's General Headquarters in Japan."},{"id":"900","model":"narrator","index":"19 744/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/900/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/900/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-452_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-452_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/900/interviews/"},"display_name":"Bob Suzuki","bio":"Nisei-han male. Born January 2, 1936, in Portland, Oregon, where father worked for the railroad. During World War II, removed to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, family moved to a small community outside of Spokane, Washington, to farm. Went to UC Berkeley and Caltech, then taught at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California. He served as chair of the National Education Commission of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and vice chair of the Community Advisory Committee for the Desegregation of the Pasadena Schools. Held several positions in academic administration including Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at California State University, Los Angeles, Vice President for Academic Affairs at California State University, Northridge, and President of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona."},{"id":"ddr-densho-468-158","model":"entity","index":"20 745/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-158/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-468-158/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-468/ddr-densho-468-158-mezzanine-244668ea60-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-468/ddr-densho-468-158-mezzanine-244668ea60-a.jpg"},"title":"Nonfiction manuscript: \"Road to Freedom\" with submission letter and rejection letter","description":"Manuscript of nonfiction narrative describing experience as Japanese-American seeking student leave from World War II incarceration. 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California Blue Shield, the first class action employment lawsuit brought by Asian Pacific Americans on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans; Spokane JACL v. Washington State University, a class action on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans to establish an Asian American Studies program at Washington State University; and Nakanishi v. UCLA, a claim for unfair denial of tenure which resulted in the granting of tenure after widespread publicity over discrimination in academia. Mr. Minami represents Kristi Yamaguchi, the 1992 Olympic Gold Medal skater, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, actor Lane Nishikawa, and others in the fields of media and entertainment. He is counsel to the National Asian American Telecommunications Association and the Asian American Journalists' Association. Mr. Minami has taught at University of California, Berkeley and Mills College in Oakland, CA and has been a Commissioner of the State of California's Fair Employment and Housing Commission, a Commissioner on the State Bar of California, Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, the Chair of the Attorney General's Asian/Pacific Advisory Committee and a Member of Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Screening Committee. He was Chair of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Commission, appointed by President Clinton in 1994. Mr. Minami has received numerous awards including the State Bar President's Pro bono Service Award, an honorary Juris Doctor degree from the McGeorge School of Law, designation of a dormitory at the University of California at Santa Cruz as the \"Queen Liliuokalani-Minami\" Dormitory, awards from the Coro Foundation, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, the Harry Dow Memorial Fellowship in Boston, the Fred Korematsu Civil Rights Fund Award, the Organization of Chinese Americans, the Japanese American Youth Center and the Centro Legale de la Raza. Mr. Minami is a partner with Minami, Lew and Tamaki in San Francisco, and specializes in personal injury and entertainment law.","extent":"03:26:04","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-141","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":134,"namepart":"Dale Minami"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Margaret Chon"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"February 8, 2003","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Dale Minami narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nMargaret Chon interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-mdale-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-48-7","model":"entity","index":"23 748/{'value': 763, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-7/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-48-7/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-48/ddr-csujad-48-7-mezzanine-46be419ef1-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-48/ddr-csujad-48-7-mezzanine-46be419ef1-a.jpg"},"title":"My future in the post-war America","description":"Term paper by Jogi Yamaguchi for period III Social Problems class taught by Mr. Harry Bentley Wells, a teacher at Manzanar High School. 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