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During the war, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California, where, along with a group of friends, established a nursery business. Served in the Military Intelligence Service in Japan before returning to Los Angeles."},{"id":"782","model":"narrator","index":"1 651/{'value': 666, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/782/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/782/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/syoshimitsu.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/syoshimitsu.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/782/interviews/"},"display_name":"Yoshimitsu Suyematsu","bio":"Nisei male. Born May 30, 1927, on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Grew up on Bainbridge, where parents ran a strawberry farm. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California, then transferred to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, returned to Bainbridge for a time and then volunteered for the military, serving in Japan during the U.S. occupation. After returning to the United States, established a farm in Ontario, Oregon."},{"id":"626","model":"narrator","index":"2 652/{'value': 666, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/626/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/626/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/nrobert.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/nrobert.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/626/interviews/"},"display_name":"Robert A. Nakamura","bio":"Nisei/Sansei male. Born July 5, 1936, in Venice, California. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, lived for a time in Denver before returning to Los Angeles. After the war, became a pioneering filmmaker. Founder of Visual Communications, the oldest community-based media arts center in the United States. Along with wife Karen Ishizuka, founded the Media Arts Center of the Japanese American National Museum."},{"id":"572","model":"narrator","index":"3 653/{'value': 666, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/572/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/572/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/yrichard_2.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/yrichard_2.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/572/interviews/"},"display_name":"Richard E. Yamashiro","bio":"Nisei male. Born February 13, 1929, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Hollywood, California, and was living there when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Parents signed \"no-no\" on the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire\" and the family was transferred to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, then designated as a segregation center. From Tule Lake, expatriated to Japan and moved there with family. Eventually came back to the U.S., joined the Military Intelligence Service, and returned to Japan for military service."},{"id":"616","model":"narrator","index":"4 654/{'value': 666, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/616/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/616/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mkiyo_2.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mkiyo_2.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/616/interviews/"},"display_name":"Kiyo Maruyama","bio":"Nisei male. Born August 28, 1920, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in the Glendale area, where father ran a gardening business. Was in college at UC Berkeley when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Left camp to work in Chicago. Drafted into the army and served with the Military Intelligence Service in Japan. Returned to California and started an accounting firm. Became involved in many community organizations in Los Angeles."},{"id":"552","model":"narrator","index":"5 655/{'value': 666, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/552/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/552/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mjohn.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mjohn.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/552/interviews/"},"display_name":"John Kats Marumoto","bio":"Nisei male. Born June 24, 1927, in Terminal Island, California. Grew up on Terminal Island, where father was a fisherman. Lived in Japan for a short time in 1941. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, moved to Compton after the Japanese Americans were excluded from Terminal Island. Removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, worked on a fishing boat in Mexico. Drafted into the military in the 1950s and served in Japan. After the war, returned to California."},{"id":"16","model":"narrator","index":"6 656/{'value': 666, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/16/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/16/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/hfumiko.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/hfumiko.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/16/interviews/"},"display_name":"Fumiko Hayashida","bio":"Nisei female. Born January 21, 1911, in Winslow, Washington. Grew up in Japan and the Fletcher's Bay area of Bainbridge Island, Washington. Member of the first group of Japanese Americans to be forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated. Incarcerated at Manzanar concentration camp, California, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, while pregnant and caring for two small children. Subject of famous photo of a mother carrying her sleeping child wearing evacuation tags."},{"id":"18","model":"narrator","index":"7 657/{'value': 666, '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":"212","model":"narrator","index":"8 658/{'value': 666, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/212/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/212/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/amas.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/amas.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/212/interviews/"},"display_name":"Mas Akiyama","bio":"Nisei male. 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This video includes scenes from the 30-minute drama, and interviews from the companion video on the making of Stand Up for Justice, a film based on the true story of a Mexican American high school student who stood up for his Japanese American friends during WWII—by choosing to live in confinement with them at Manzanar concentration camp.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the <a href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Densho Resource Guide</a> at: <a href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Stand%20Up%20For%20Justice:%20The%20Ralph%20Lazo%20Story%20(film)/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stand Up For Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story (film)</a>.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the <a href=\"https://archive.org/details/digital-library-of-japanese-american-incarceration-films\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films</a> at: <a href=\"https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-86</a>.","extent":"00:33:00","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024-86","creators":[{"role":"Director","namepart":"Esaki, John"}],"topics":[{"term":"Identity and values -- Children","id":"509"},{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps","id":"65"}],"format":"av","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"motion_picture","facility":[{"term":"Manzanar","id":"7"}],"creation":"2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Esaki, John Director","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-86-mezzanine-f254c133eb-a.jpg"},{"id":"277","model":"narrator","index":"10 660/{'value': 666, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/277/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/277/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/otakayo.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/otakayo.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/277/interviews/"},"display_name":"Rose Matsui Ochi","bio":"Nisei female. Born December 15, 1938, in Los Angeles, California. As a child, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Rohwer concentration camp, Arkansas. Following World War II, became a teacher and then went to law school. In 1974, worked for Los Angeles Mayor Bradley as a legislative research coordinator and eventually executive assistant to the mayor, heading up the Criminal Justice office. Served as the pro-bono lawyer for the Manzanar Committee and was instrumental in the site's establishment and development."},{"id":"484","model":"narrator","index":"11 661/{'value': 666, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/484/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/484/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mjim.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mjim.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/484/interviews/"},"display_name":"Jim Matsuoka","bio":"Nisei male. Born July 27, 1935, in Los Angeles, Califonia. Grew up in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood prior to World War II. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed with family to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, returned to Los Angeles and attended school. Became involved in gang activity in L.A. in the 1950s. Served in the military from 1958 to 1960. Active in community social service organizations in Little Tokyo, and was one of the integral players in the redress movement."},{"id":"506","model":"narrator","index":"12 662/{'value': 666, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/506/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/506/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/kbruce.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/kbruce.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/506/interviews/"},"display_name":"Bruce T. Kaji","bio":"Nisei male. Born May 9, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. 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