(Members of the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) arranged for and conducted this interview in conjunction with Densho.)","extent":"01:30:44","links_children":"ddr-densho-1008-3","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":52,"namepart":"Mitsue Matsui"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Marvin Uratsu"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Gary Otake"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr008b87c","namepart":"Kono, Mitsue"}],"contributor":"National Japanese American Historical Society Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"December 12, 1997","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Mitsue Matsui narrator \nMarvin Uratsu interviewer \nGary Otake interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer Kono, Mitsue 88922nr008b87c","download_large":"denshovh-mmitsue-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-86","model":"entity","index":"2 2552/{'value': 2577, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-86/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-86/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-sfloyd-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-sfloyd-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Floyd Schmoe Interview II","description":"White male. Born September 21, 1895. Sixth generation Quaker and an internationally recognized pacifist and peace activist. He was a forest ecologist, marine biologist, college professor, and leader of many volunteer service groups. During World War II, he was a leader in persuading colleges outside of the evacuation zone to accept Japanese American students, and in many other ways served the Japanese American community during their incarceration, and as they restarted their lives following the war. At the end of the war, he turned his attention to Japan and worked on recovery efforts there by building homes in Hiroshima. At the age of ninety-five he created the Seattle Peace Park, planning, bulldozing and planting the park in memorial to lives lost in the bombing of Japan, and as a testimony to peace.
(In this interview Mr. Schmoe refers to Aki Kurose, a former employee, fellow Quaker, peace activist, and long-time friend. At the time of this interview, Ms. Kurose had recently passed away after a long struggle with cancer.)","extent":"01:20:53","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-86","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":86,"namepart":"Floyd Schmoe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Elmer Good"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"June 22, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Floyd Schmoe narrator \nElmer Good interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer","download_large":"denshovh-sfloyd-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-83","model":"entity","index":"3 2553/{'value': 2577, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-83/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-83/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-sfloyd-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-sfloyd-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Floyd Schmoe Interview I","description":"White male. Born September 21, 1895. Sixth generation Quaker and an internationally recognized pacifist and peace activist. He was a forest ecologist, marine biologist, college professor, and leader of many volunteer service groups. During World War II, he was a leader in persuading colleges outside of the evacuation zone to accept Japanese American students, and in many other ways served the Japanese American community during their incarceration, and as they restarted their lives following the war. At the end of the war, he turned his attention to Japan and worked on recovery efforts there by building homes in Hiroshima. At the age of ninety-five he created the Seattle Peace Park, planning, bulldozing and planting the park in memorial to lives lost in the bombing of Japan, and as a testimony to peace.
(In this interview Mr. Schmoe refers to Aki Kurose, a former employee, fellow Quaker, peace activist, and long-time friend. At the time of this interview, Ms. Kurose had recently passed away after a long struggle with cancer.)","extent":"01:16:42","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-83","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":86,"namepart":"Floyd Schmoe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Elmer Good"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"June 10, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Floyd Schmoe narrator \nElmer Good interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer","download_large":"denshovh-sfloyd-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-316","model":"entity","index":"4 2554/{'value': 2577, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-316/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-316/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mramsay-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mramsay-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Ramsay Yosuke Mori Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born February 23, 1933, in Tokyo, Japan. Moved with parents to Hawaii at a young age, and grew up in Honolulu, where family held a prominent position in the community. Just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, parents received a phone call from Japan, which was tapped by the FBI. The U.S. government misconstrued the conversation, and on December 7, 1941, they were picked up by the FBI and taken to Sand Island internment camp, Hawaii, and Crystal City internment camp, Texas. Mr. Mori was eight years old at the time, and spent the duration of World War II without his parents. After the war, served in the U.S. military and eventually established a career in the airline industry.
(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":"03:08:03","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-316","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":546,"namepart":"Ramsay Yosuke Mori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Kelli Nakamura"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"topics":[{"term":"Geographic communities -- Hawai'i","id":"277"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Honoulu, Hawaii","facility":[{"term":"Crystal City","id":"29"}],"creation":"February 28, 2011","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Ramsay Yosuke Mori narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nKelli Nakamura interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-mramsay-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-9","model":"entity","index":"5 2555/{'value': 2577, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-9/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-9/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-kdave-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-kdave-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Dave Kawamoto Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born December 16, 1916, in Cupertino, California. Attended San Jose State College, where he was an NCAA wrestling champion. Immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, tried to enlist in the U.S. Air Corps, but was refused on account of his Japanese ancestry. Was one semester short of earning a business degree when he was removed with his family to the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Was one of the Heart Mountain resisters of conscience, and stood trial in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for resisting the draft in 1944. After World War II, went into civil service and a fruit-selling business. Mr. Kawamoto was posthumously awarded his business degree from San Jose State.
(This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.)","extent":"00:40:47","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-9","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":155,"namepart":"Dave Kawamoto"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr008tt0q","namepart":"Kawamoto, Dave Tetsutaro"}],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"August 1993","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Dave Kawamoto narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer Kawamoto, Dave Tetsutaro 88922nr008tt0q","download_large":"denshovh-kdave-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-23-8","model":"entity","index":"6 2556/{'value': 2577, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-23-8/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-23-8/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-23/ddr-csujad-23-8-mezzanine-1cd113cff7-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-23/ddr-csujad-23-8-mezzanine-1cd113cff7-a.jpg"},"title":"Masonite","description":"Oil Painting no. 1 of 2 \"Masonite\" by Geichiro Kare Kuramatsu. Geichiro (Ernest) Kare Kuramatsu was born in Japan in 1885 to a Russian mother and Japanese father. The family moved to Canada, and Ernest saw combat while serving with the Canadian Army in France during World War I. He completed this oil painting in 1943 while incarcerated at the Granada (Amache) camp. Mr. Kuramatsu received art training at the University of Minnesota and was living near Carmel, California and working with noted seascape artist Paul Dougherty at the outbreak of WW II. Following Franklin D. Roosevelt's issuance of Executive Order 9066 in Feb. 1942, Kuramatsu was confined at the Merced Assembly Center and then sent to Amache in the southeastern desert of Colorado. At Amache, he lived next door to Henry and Ann Fujita from Petaluma, California. Ann was an amateur artist who admired Kuramatsu's work. He presented these two oil paintings to her as gifts in 1943. 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Mitsuko is very aware of the discussions of whether to return to Japan or stay in America and plans for what \"girls\" should be doing with their lives. Mitsuko wants to remain in America. She expresses a wish to never go to Japan. She wanted to have adventures and worry about settling down further in the future. Mitsuko describes a need to get out to prove herself on her own but didn't know what to do if the war continued as she really disliked camp. Mitsuko shows determination to \"look on the bright side.\" If things were normal, she would have finished her major and maybe be working in a sewing factory. She believed strongly in continuing to have fun and not getting too engrossed in work. She wanted to find happiness not a career necessarily. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9009. 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Matsumoto Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born May 1, 1913, in Laguna, California. Lived in Japan from childhood through teenage years, before returning to the United States during high school. Incarcerated in the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Volunteered for the U.S. army in 1942, and was inducted in the Military Intelligence Service. Selected for a dangerous mission in Burma, becoming one of the famed Merrill's Marauders. Provided crucial intelligence information for the U.S. government after tapping into a Japanese army communications wire in Burma. Instrumental in a mission to hold Nhpum Ga hill in Burma, in which he shouted military orders in Japanese to confuse the attacking Japanese soldiers. Awarded the Legion of Merit from the U.S. military, and stationed in China and Japan after the war. Met future wife while working undercover in Japan. Inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame in 1993.
(Although Mr. Matsumoto does not identify himself as a Kibei (American-born person of Japanese ancestry sent to Japan for formal education and socialization when young and later returned to the U.S.), some of his life experiences are similar to those who do identify themselves as such.)","extent":"07:40:41","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-153","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":151,"namepart":"Roy H. Matsumoto"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zs43","namepart":"Matsumoto, Roy Hiroshi"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"December 17 & 18, 2003","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Roy H. 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While her husband was incarcerated at Camp Livingston, Louisiana, Mrs. Koyama submitted numerous documents pertaining to her husband's educational history in the United States. She then found out that the Immigration and Naturalization Bureau did not have these documents and Mrs. Koyama had to turn back to Mrs. A.C. Goodenough to gather them up again. Mrs. Koyama heard from her husband that the Immigration and Naturalization Bureau was able to confirm his status as a legal resident due to a law from 1924. He was also able to track down the whereabouts of the stowaway. His name was Seizaburo Koyama and had returned to Japan several years prior. This was confirmed by the stowaway's brother who happened to be at the same camp as Keizaburo Koyama. After being transferred to Santa Fe, New Mexico, authorities urged Mr. Koyama to fully detail his story, which he did. At this point, Mrs. Koyama asks pointedly why the FBI did not investigate her husband's status at any time prior to the 1942 raids.","extent":"1 photocopy: 8.50 W x 14 H","links_children":"ddr-one-5-232","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Koyama, Teru"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Family reunification","id":"527"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Koyama, Teru"},{"namepart":"Koyama, Keizaburo"},{"namepart":"Ennis, Edward J."},{"namepart":"Federal Bureau of Investigation"},{"namepart":"Immigration and Naturalization Service"}],"contributor":"Japanese American Museum of Oregon; Portland, Oregon","geography":[{"term":"Portland","id":"289"},{"term":"New Mexico","id":"502"},{"term":"Montana","id":"498"},{"term":"Idaho","id":"491"}],"rights":"cc","genre":"correspondence","location":"Hunt, Idaho","facility":[{"term":"Minidoka","id":"8"},{"term":"Santa Fe","id":"27"},{"term":"Fort Missoula","id":"30"},{"term":"Fort Sill","id":"40"},{"term":"Camp Livingston","id":"55"}],"creation":"11/29/1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Koyama, Teru author Koyama, Teru \nKoyama, Keizaburo \nEnnis, Edward J. \nFederal Bureau of Investigation \nImmigration and Naturalization Service","download_large":"ddr-one-5-232-mezzanine-cd0ea81f91-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-pc-29-28","model":"entity","index":"11 2561/{'value': 2577, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-29-28/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-29-28/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-29/ddr-pc-29-28-mezzanine-c8facb0620-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-29/ddr-pc-29-28-mezzanine-c8facb0620-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen, Vol. 45, No. 2 (July 12, 1957)","description":"Select article titles: \"House group recommends temp'y farm labor plan be continued: 'No ill effects' on domestic labor market recorded\" (p. 1); \"JACL Campaign Against Anti-Nisei Films on TV Circularized by NARBT\" (p. 1); \"Small Claims Court Hears Civil Right Cases\" (p. 1); \"$86,550 damage suit filed in traffic death of Sakamoto\" (p. 1); \"Mr. Moto, Nisei in 'Stopover: Tokyo' novel to be missing in film version\" (p. 1); \"Ambassador Praises Nisei Return of Sword\" (p. 1); \"Wholesale visit to U.S. of Japanese politicians with Kishi rapped as waste of tax money; Tokyo seethes in mud-slinging on mission\" (p. 2); \"PC Japan Bureau chief to visit U.S. during global tour\" (p. 2); \"Painting with sumi proves popular as education TV station send 1000th set\" (p. 2); \"International Nisei businessmen's meet in Tokyo Oct. 23-26\" (p.3); \"Nisei semanticist in headlines again, high-powered autos seen as sex symbol\" (p. 3); \"JACL endowment fund reaches $98,000 see increase as gov't checks for recent payment of evacuation claims being mailed\" (p. 5); \"Pen-pal letter starts Detroit housewife to build church, orphanage in Fukushima\" (p. 7); \"Senate action on civil rights bill due next Wed.\" (p. 8); \"Cincinnati Sansei Wins Direct Executive Call To Naval Academy\" (p. 8).","extent":"11W x 17H","links_children":"ddr-pc-29-28","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"Japanese American Citizens League"}],"topics":[{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Civil liberties","id":"233"},{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Civil rights","id":"234"},{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Politics","id":"235"},{"term":"Arts and literature -- Visual arts -- Painting","id":"265"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California -- Los Angeles","id":"272"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California -- San Francisco","id":"273"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- Washington -- Seattle","id":"293"},{"term":"Community activities -- Associations and organizations -- The Japanese American Citizens League","id":"20"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Issei","id":"43"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Japanese American identity","id":"47"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Sansei","id":"338"},{"term":"Industry and employment -- Agriculture","id":"6"},{"term":"Journalism and media -- Community publications -- Pacific Citizen","id":"389"},{"term":"Race and racism -- Discrimination","id":"37"},{"term":"Race and racism -- Stereotypes","id":"161"},{"term":"Redress and reparations -- Mobilizing and organizing the community","id":"111"},{"term":"Redress and reparations -- Receiving redress checks and apology","id":"117"},{"term":"Religion and churches -- Christianity","id":"396"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"periodical","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"07/12/1957","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Japanese American Citizens League publisher","download_large":"ddr-pc-29-28-mezzanine-c8facb0620-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-37-673","model":"entity","index":"12 2562/{'value': 2577, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-673/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-37-673/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-37/ddr-densho-37-673-mezzanine-0c5bc3c2b0-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-37/ddr-densho-37-673-mezzanine-0c5bc3c2b0-a.jpg"},"title":"Family outside barracks","description":"Original WRA caption: Sakamoto family picture on golden wedding anniversary of Joseph Gerald Osamu Sakamoto and Mary Ann Tsuchi Sakamoto, both 80, at the Minidoka Relocation Center on December 11, 1943. Married in Japan, they came to the U.S. in 1894. Mr. Sakamoto was an early Seattle hotel proprietor. His son, James Y. Sakamoto, 40, is pictured with his family, Marietta Misao, wife, 37; Marie Mineyo, 11, Marcia Tsuyumi, 6, and Justine Denice, 8 months daughters. James Sakamoto, a U.S. citizen, attended Franklin high school in Seattle and studied at Princeton University in 1921 and 1922. He took up boxing and fought from ban tom weight to junior lightweight. He was probably the first person of Japanese ancestry to fight in Madison Square Garden. His left eye was injured and in 1927 in a fight in Utica, NY his right eye was blinded due to detachment of the retina. He returned to Seattle when he lost his sight entirely. Having done newspaper work in New York as English Editor of the Japanese-American, he turned to journalism in Seattle and on January 1, 1928 started publishing the Japanese-American Courier, first Japanese-American newspaper printed entirely in English. He is a past president of the Japanese American Citizens League.","links_children":"ddr-densho-37-673","format":"img","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"pdm","genre":"photograph","location":"Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho","facility":[{"term":"Minidoka","id":"8"}],"creation":"11-Dec-43","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-37-673-mezzanine-0c5bc3c2b0-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1020-1","model":"entity","index":"13 2563/{'value': 2577, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1020-1/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1020-1/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1020/ddr-densho-1020-1-1-mezzanine-8be5f7539a-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1020/ddr-densho-1020-1-1-mezzanine-8be5f7539a-a.jpg"},"title":"Aaron Zajic Interview","description":"Born in Baltimore, Maryland. During the Redress Movement, worked for the Department of Justice's Office of Redress Administration (ORA), which was established to identify and administer reparations payments to eligible individuals. Was the ORA's Manager, Stage II Verification Team, from 1990 to 2000. By 1993 some of the ORA staff began working on Civil Rights investigations, providing litigation support. As the need for litigation support in the Civil Rights Division grew, and the amount of work required for ORA decreased, many of the staff members of the ORA team became the initial members of the newly formed Litigation Support Services Group, the first of its kind in the Civil Rights Division. Mr. Zajic continued to work in the Litigation Support Group from its inception through February 2016. In February of 2016, left the Civil Rights Division and began working for the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, findings, 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":"0:34:40","links_children":"ddr-densho-1020-1","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":931,"namepart":"Aaron Zajic"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emi Kuboyama"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Todd Holmes"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"nocc","genre":"interview","location":"Washington, D.C.","creation":"May 17, 2019","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Aaron Zajic narrator \nEmi Kuboyama interviewer \nTodd Holmes videographer","download_large":"ddr-densho-1020-1-1-mezzanine-8be5f7539a-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-426-1792","model":"entity","index":"14 2564/{'value': 2577, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-426-1792/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-426-1792/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-426/ddr-densho-426-1792-mezzanine-706f516ffd-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-426/ddr-densho-426-1792-mezzanine-706f516ffd-a.jpg"},"title":"Group photo of attendees at 10th Anniversary Ball of SF JACL","description":"Inscription on front: Tenth Anniversary Ball of SF JACL, October 28, 1938. 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Mrs. Tei Kaneko is opening her knitting bag while on the floor (left to right) are Robin Isoda, 2-1/2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Georg[e] Isoda, and Wayne Kaneko, 2-1/2-year -old son of the Kanekos. The Kanekos are formerly from Hunt Relocation Center and before evacuation lived in Seattle, Washington.\" Beginning in summer 1942, the War Relocation Authority (WRA) began to release incarcerees and encouraged them to resettle in areas of the United States other than the West Coast. However, many Japanese Americans were reluctant to leave (incarcerees did not depart in large numbers until 1944). The Issei in particular, many of whom were sixty or older, had little with which to start a new life after losing their farms and small businesses. Incarcerees also feared for their safety; reports and rumors of hostile treatment by outsiders were common in camps. The WRA started a campaign to show how good life was outside the camps and away from the West Coast. The agency took photographs of the Kaneko and Isoda families for that purpose. Tei Kaneko and her family joined her sister, Sachiko Isoda, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where a church had helped them find a furnished home. Incarcerees from various camps informed Kaneko that they had seen the WRA photographs posted on camp blackboards.","extent":"2065W x 1471H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-7-6","topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Leaving camp -- \"Resettlement\"","id":"104"}],"format":"img","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Kaneko, Tei"},{"namepart":"Isoda, George"},{"namepart":"Kaneko, Wayne"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"pcc","genre":"photograph","location":"Milwaukee, Wisconsin","creation":"1944","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Kaneko, Tei \nIsoda, George \nKaneko, Wayne","download_large":"ddr-densho-7-6-mezzanine-b3129359a2-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-48-7","model":"entity","index":"17 2567/{'value': 2577, '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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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":"ddr-densho-1000-123","model":"entity","index":"19 2569/{'value': 2577, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-123/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-123/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-itsuguo-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-itsuguo-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Tsuguo \"Ike\" Ikeda Interview I","description":"Nisei male. 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In 1953, was one of the first Nisei hired as executive director of a nonprofit organization in the United States (outside the Japanese American community), and served at the Atlantic Street Center in Seattle for 33 years, leading its transformation from settlement house to social service agency. Worked to reduce racial discrimination. Promoted multi-racial, cross-cultural cooperation, equal opportunity and affirmative action in community, church, nonprofit, government and other arenas. Mentors and advises community members, including sharing a set of principles he developed based on values from his cultural heritage. Mr. Ikeda is the recipient of numerous awards, recognitions of service and honors for his professional and volunteer contributions to society.
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She asks that he let her know when he receives them and asks if he needs anything else. She also writes to him about financial matters for the family and how they were handled. She asks about lending his office space to another doctor to use. She mentions that she is not in need of any money and that she will spend tomorrow finding out about filing cards for the business and doing some collections. 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She also considered applying to the open library position in Manzanar to gain more knowledge and experience. Ch. 3: Lists what is needed to be considered when making goals. Lily wishes to be well-rounded and to catch up on popular books and magazines so she can be a social success. She believes it necessary to earn the respect of others and to understand others well. Ch. 4: Lily had hoped to attend UCLA or USC to study music education. Now, she has been looking at other schools around the country, including Washington State. She then includes a run-down of what is offered at WSU and what has enticed her to apply there. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9006. 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Born 1955 in Los Angeles, CA. Grew up in Gardena, CA, 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.
(This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.
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":"00:08:03","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-14","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":112,"namepart":"Lorraine Bannai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"October 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Lorraine Bannai narrator","download_large":"denshovh-blorraine-02-a.jpg"}],"query":{"query":{"query_string":{"query":"Mr.","fields":["id","model","links_html","links_json","links_img","links_thumb","links_children","status","public","title","description","contributor","creators","creators.namepart","facility","format","genre","geography","label","language","creation","location","persons","rights","topics","image_url","display_name","bio","extent","search_hidden"],"analyze_wildcard":false,"allow_leading_wildcard":false,"default_operator":"AND"}},"aggs":{"facility":{"nested":{"path":"facility"},"aggs":{"facility_ids":{"terms":{"field":"facility.id","size":1000}}}},"format":{"terms":{"field":"format"}},"genre":{"terms":{"field":"genre"}},"rights":{"terms":{"field":"rights"}},"topics":{"nested":{"path":"topics"},"aggs":{"topics_ids":{"terms":{"field":"topics.id","size":1000}}}}},"_source":["id","model","links_html","links_json","links_img","links_thumb","links_children","status","public","title","description","contributor","creators","creators.namepart","facility","format","genre","geography","label","language","creation","location","persons","rights","topics","image_url","display_name","bio","extent","search_hidden"]}}