(This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Because of the full conference schedule, our interviews were limited to one hour. The interviews therefore focused primarily on a single topic, namely, the narrator's role in the redress movement.)","extent":"00:52:56","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-44","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":50,"namepart":"William Marutani"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Becky Fukuda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Gary Kawaguchi"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zq9m","namepart":"Marutani, William Masaharu"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"University of CA, Los Angeles","creation":"September 11, 1997","status":"completed","search_hidden":"William Marutani narrator \nBecky Fukuda interviewer \nGary Kawaguchi interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer Marutani, William Masaharu 88922nr015zq9m","download_large":"denshovh-mwilliam-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-48","model":"entity","index":"1 6076/{'value': 6865, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-48/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-48/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mkay-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mkay-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Kay Matsuoka Interview","description":"Nisei female. Born April 17, 1917, in Moneta, California. Grew up working on family's strawberry farm. Attended Japanese language school where she learned Japanese dancing and singing. Was popular and excelled in high school, but was prevented by the Parent Teacher Association from giving the commencement address because of her ethnicity. Attended dress design school, and opened a dressmaking shop at the age of twenty-one. Met her husband through a Japanese matchmaker and got married soon after the onset of WWII in anticipation of being incarcerated. Was incarcerated at the Gila River concentration camp where her husband contracted tuberculosis. Cared for ailing husband, who was isolated and confined to the camp hospital. Taught camp inmates dressmaking as well as Japanese dancing and singing. Converted to Christianity as a result of weekly visits by Christian missionaries to the camp. After the war ended and the camp was nearly empty, went into a prolonged and difficult labor, requiring that the staff reopen the hospital and she and her husband stay at Gila River after everyone else had left. Resettled in Fresno, California.","extent":"04:02:08","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-48","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":55,"namepart":"Kay Matsuoka"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0057s88","namepart":"Matsuoka, Kazuye"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"December 29 & 30, 1999","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Kay Matsuoka narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Matsuoka, Kazuye 88922nr0057s88","download_large":"denshovh-mkay-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-316","model":"entity","index":"2 6077/{'value': 6865, '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-1002-7","model":"entity","index":"3 6078/{'value': 6865, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-7/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-7/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-uharry-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-uharry-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Harry Ueno Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born April 14, 1907, in Pauilo, Hawaii. Lived in Japan from 1915 to 1923, and settled on the mainland upon his return to the United States. Was married in 1930, and was removed along with family to Manzanar concentration camp, California, during World War II. While in Manzanar, organized the Mess Hall Workers Union. Accused of beating up a suspected government informant and was placed in jail, sparking the so-called \"Manzanar Riot.\" Was moved to various jails and the Citizen Isolation Centers Leupp, Arizona, and Moab, Utah, before being reunited with his family in Tule Lake Segregation Center. After release from camp, moved to the Santa Clara Valley, raised three children, and became a farmer.
(This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.)","extent":"03:58:49","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-7","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":141,"namepart":"Harry Ueno"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Witt Mons"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr012m793","namepart":"Ueno, Harry Yoshiyo"}],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Mateo, California","creation":"February 18, 1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Harry Ueno narrator \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Witt Mons videographer Ueno, Harry Yoshiyo 88922nr012m793","download_large":"denshovh-uharry-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1001-20","model":"entity","index":"4 6079/{'value': 6865, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1001-20/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1001-20/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1001/denshovh-hjunkoh-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1001/denshovh-hjunkoh-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Junkoh Harui Interview","description":"Nisei male born June 23, 1933, in Bainbridge Island, Washington. His family built and operated Bainbridge Gardens, 27 acres of meticulously landscaped property, with a nursery, grocery store and gas station. At the onset of World War II, family moved to Moses Lake to avoid being incarcerated where they farmed and lived amidst a fairly hostile larger community. Following the war, they returned to Bainbridge Island to find most of their business and property ruined from neglect and pilfering. His parents worked to rebuild it, while Mr. Harui began his own floral shop and landscape business. Eventually, Mr. Harui returned to Bainbridge Gardens and helped restore it to a thriving nursery and testimony to his family's perseverance. Mr. Harui passed away on October 19, 2008.
(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":"01:15:19","links_children":"ddr-densho-1001-20","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":13,"namepart":"Junkoh Harui"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"John DeChadenedes"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Bainbridge Island, Washington","creation":"February 3, 2007","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Junkoh Harui narrator \nJohn DeChadenedes interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-hjunkoh-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-119-44","model":"entity","index":"5 6080/{'value': 6865, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-119-44/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-119-44/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-119/ddr-densho-119-44-mezzanine-1c5396fa7a-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-119/ddr-densho-119-44-mezzanine-1c5396fa7a-a.jpg"},"title":"Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 17 (June 19, 1943)","description":"Selected article titles: \"Residents Reject Charter, 2375 to 1568. 73.9% of Eligible Voters Cast Ballots in Election\" (p. 1), \"Union Protests Employment of Nisei; Plan No Action\" (p. 1), \"Dies Charges Fail in Aim. Demand for Workers Mounts in Chicago Area, Says Shirrell\" (p. 1), \"Welcome Extended to Men in Army Who Visit Seattle\" (p. 1), \"Judge Denies Yasui Appeal. Nisei's Effort for Release to Camp on Bond Hits Snag\" (p. 1), \"Director Stafford Relates Ultimate Objectives of the Minidoka Center\" (p. 1), \"Tolerance Begins at Home\" (p. 2), \"Davidson Re-emphasizes Importance of Center's Farm Food Production\" (p. 3), \"Minidoka Center Scheduled to Produce 2,420,000 Pounds of Vegetables, WRA's 1943 Production Program Shows\" (p. 3), \"Plants in Hotbed are Transplanted. Davidson Voices Hope for Four Hundred Acres of Vegetables Planted by End of June\" (p. 3), \"Maintenance of Diet Standards Up to Evacuees\" (p. 3), \"Skills, Hobbies of Hunt Residents to be Shown In Twin Falls Exhibit\" (p. 5), \"The Student Relocation Council. 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Humorous at first, the tone shifts when one asks about \"camp\" and other replies that she was in Tule Lake , invoking stereotypes of the camp and its inmates in the other. Directed by Jesse Wine, \"American Fish\" was based on the short story of the same name by R. A. Sasaki. It was screened as part of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage in 1996.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: American Fish.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-55.","extent":"00:10:00","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024-55","creators":[{"role":"Director","namepart":"Wine, Jesse"},{"role":"Producer","namepart":"Ing, Doug"},{"role":"Actor","namepart":"Nojima, Nikki"},{"role":"Actor","namepart":"Tokuda,Tama"},{"role":"Cinematography","namepart":"Barkley, Robert Jett"},{"role":"Editing","namepart":"Koh, Jay J."},{"role":"Studio","namepart":"Wine Productions in association with Kingstreet Media"},{"role":"Distributor","namepart":"Center for Asian American Media"}],"topics":[{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"}],"format":"av","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"motion_picture","facility":[{"term":"Tule Lake","id":"10"}],"creation":"1995","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Wine, Jesse Director \nIng, Doug Producer \nNojima, Nikki Actor \nTokuda,Tama Actor \nBarkley, Robert Jett Cinematography \nKoh, Jay J. 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The film also features three Nisei who contributed objects to the installation talking about the significance of those objects.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Relics from Camp: A Video Journey.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-67.","extent":"00:31:00","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024-67","creators":[{"role":"Director, Producer, Narrator","namepart":"Aono, Kristine Yuki"},{"role":"Music","namepart":"Riley, Craig"},{"role":"Cinematography","namepart":"Dibble, Matt"},{"role":"interviewee","namepart":"Yoshinaga-Herzig, Aiko"},{"role":"interviewee","namepart":"Wakiji, George M."},{"role":"interviewee","namepart":"Hoshida, Chiyoko Doris"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps","id":"65"}],"format":"av","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"nocc","genre":"motion_picture","creation":"1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Aono, Kristine Yuki Director, Producer, Narrator \nRiley, Craig Music \nDibble, Matt Cinematography \nYoshinaga-Herzig, Aiko interviewee \nWakiji, George M. interviewee \nHoshida, Chiyoko Doris interviewee","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-67-mezzanine-849861ffec-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-9","model":"entity","index":"8 6083/{'value': 6865, '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-densho-1000-129","model":"entity","index":"9 6084/{'value': 6865, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-129/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-129/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hbill-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hbill-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Bill Hosokawa Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born in Seattle on January 30, 1915, and attended Washington grade school, Garfield High School and the University of Washington. He grew up as a typical Nisei, working summers in Alaska salmon canneries and Western Avenue produce brokerages to pay for his education. He became interested in writing at Garfield where he was sports editor of the school paper. While attending the University he worked at the weekly Japanese American Courier published by the late Jimmie Sakamoto. A faculty adviser at the University urged Hosokawa to drop out of the journalism school \"because no newspaper in the country would hire a Japanese boy.\" Hosokawa rejected the advice, but when he graduated in 1937 he found the professor was right. After working as a male secretary writing letters, Hosokawa and his bride, the former Alice Miyake of Portland, Oregon, went to Singapore in 1938 to help launch an English language daily. A year and a half later Hosokawa moved to Shanghai to work on an American-owned monthly magazine, the Far Eastern Review. Then, sensing the inevitability of war, he returned to Seattle in 1941 just five weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. When war came, Hosokawa served as executive director of Seattle JACL's Emergency Defense Council helping people in the community to cope. He and his family were removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington. When other Seattleites were moved to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, Hosokawa and his wife and infant son were sent to Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Later, he learned he had been separated from his Seattle friends because he was considered a potential troublemaker. He was in Heart Mountain for 14 months, working as editor of the camp newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel, before being released to join the Des Moines, Iowa Register in 1943. In 1946 he moved to Denver to work on the Denver Post. In 38 years at The Post he held such assignments as executive news editor, assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He covered the Japanese peace treaty in San Francisco in 1951, the Summit meeting in Paris in 1960 and the Zengakuren student riots in Japan that same year. He also had assignments as war correspondent in Korea and Vietnam, and for 17 years was editor of Empire, the Post's prize-winning Sunday magazine. For his last seven years at the Post Hosokawa was editor of the editorial page -- a Japanese American imprisoned during World War II as a potential security risk who now directed the opinion section of a major American newspaper. After retiring from the Post in 1984 he served the Rocky Mountain News as ombudsman columnist for seven years. Hosokawa has taught journalism classes at the University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado and University of Wyoming. He wrote a weekly comment column called \\\"From the Frying Pan\\\" in JACL's weekly Pacific Citizen from 1942 until 1999. Among other honors, Hosokawa is a former president of the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors and a member of that organization's Hall of Fame, a charter member of the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame. He was named JACL's Nisei of the Biennium in 1958, and has published 12 books. Hosokawa and his wife Alice, who died in 1998, had four children.","extent":"03:14:22","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-129","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":124,"namepart":"Bill Hosokawa"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Daryl Maeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"July 13, 2001","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Bill Hosokawa narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nDaryl Maeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-hbill-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-26","model":"entity","index":"10 6085/{'value': 6865, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-26/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-26/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-hbill-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-hbill-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Bill Hosokawa Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born in Seattle on January 30, 1915, and attended Washington grade school, Garfield High School and the University of Washington. He grew up as a typical Nisei, working summers in Alaska salmon canneries and Western Avenue produce brokerages to pay for his education. He became interested in writing at Garfield where he was sports editor of the school paper. While attending the University he worked at the weekly Japanese American Courier published by the late Jimmie Sakamoto. A faculty adviser at the University urged Hosokawa to drop out of the journalism school \"because no newspaper in the country would hire a Japanese boy.\" Hosokawa rejected the advice, but when he graduated in 1937 he found the professor was right. After working as a male secretary writing letters, Hosokawa and his bride, the former Alice Miyake of Portland, Oregon, went to Singapore in 1938 to help launch an English language daily. A year and a half later Hosokawa moved to Shanghai to work on an American-owned monthly magazine, the Far Eastern Review. Then, sensing the inevitability of war, he returned to Seattle in 1941 just five weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. When war came, Hosokawa served as executive director of Seattle JACL's Emergency Defense Council helping people in the community to cope. He and his family were removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington. When other Seattleites were moved to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, Hosokawa and his wife and infant son were sent to Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Later, he learned he had been separated from his Seattle friends because he was considered a potential troublemaker. He was in Heart Mountain for 14 months, working as editor of the camp newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel, before being released to join the Des Moines, Iowa Register in 1943. In 1946 he moved to Denver to work on the Denver Post. In 38 years at The Post he held such assignments as executive news editor, assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He covered the Japanese peace treaty in San Francisco in 1951, the Summit meeting in Paris in 1960 and the Zengakuren student riots in Japan that same year. He also had assignments as war correspondent in Korea and Vietnam, and for 17 years was editor of Empire, the Post's prize-winning Sunday magazine. For his last seven years at the Post Hosokawa was editor of the editorial page -- a Japanese American imprisoned during World War II as a potential security risk who now directed the opinion section of a major American newspaper. After retiring from the Post in 1984 he served the Rocky Mountain News as ombudsman columnist for seven years. Hosokawa has taught journalism classes at the University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado and University of Wyoming. He wrote a weekly comment column called \"From the Frying Pan\" in JACL's weekly Pacific Citizen from 1942 until 1999. Among other honors, Hosokawa is a former president of the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors and a member of that organization's Hall of Fame, a charter member of the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame. He was named JACL's Nisei of the Biennium in 1958, and has published 12 books. Hosokawa and his wife Alice, who died in 1998, had four children.","extent":"00:25:36","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-26","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":124,"namepart":"Bill Hosokawa"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Salt Lake City, Utah","creation":"August 4, 1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Bill Hosokawa narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-hbill-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-474-52","model":"entity","index":"11 6086/{'value': 6865, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-474-52/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-474-52/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-474/ddr-densho-474-52-mezzanine-3337f667ff-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-474/ddr-densho-474-52-mezzanine-3337f667ff-a.jpg"},"title":"50th Anniversary of the Japanese Congregational Church","description":"This book traces the first fifty years of the history of the JCC in Seattle. 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(This interview is part of a collaborative effort of the Puyallup Valley Japanese American Citizens League and Densho.)","extent":"00:55:02","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-116","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":114,"namepart":"John Kanda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Ronald Magden"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr014gk36","namepart":"Kanda, Masayoshi John"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"May 12, 2000","status":"completed","search_hidden":"John Kanda narrator \nRonald Magden interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Kanda, Masayoshi John 88922nr014gk36","download_large":"denshovh-kjohn-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-74","model":"entity","index":"21 6096/{'value': 6865, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-74/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-74/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-osue-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-osue-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Sue Takimoto Okabe Interview","description":"Nisei female. Born September 5, 1928, in Tacoma, Washington, moved with her family to Seattle at age four. At age six, began singing, taking voice lessons and performing on stage for Japanese American community events. In 1942, was incarcerated with her family at Puyallup Assembly Center and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, where she continued to sing -- including performances outside of the camp arranged by camp authorities. Remembers fondly the freedom from parental supervision teenagers experienced while in camp. In fact, after the family was allowed early release to relocate in Denver in April 1943, she ran away from home and briefly returned to Minidoka. In Denver, continued her music studies and joined a United Service Organization (USO) group, experiencing both racial prejudice and warm welcome at USO performances. Postwar, resettled with her family in Los Angeles, where she attended the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, University of California, Los Angeles, and University Southern California. Continued to pursue music as a hobby through schooling, marriage, and two children. Began teaching private piano and voice lessons in 1952. Following her divorce in 1958, began singing in nightclubs and lounges.","extent":"01:37:12","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-74","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":77,"namepart":"Sue Takimoto Okabe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0063g31","namepart":"Takimoto, Suzuko Frances"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"December 3, 1999","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Sue Takimoto Okabe narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Takimoto, Suzuko Frances 88922nr0063g31","download_large":"denshovh-osue-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-132","model":"entity","index":"22 6097/{'value': 6865, '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. Author of the book Reminiscing in Swingtime: Japanese Americans in American Popular Music, 1925-1960, published by the National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, California.","extent":"03:49:01","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-132","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":126,"namepart":"George Yoshida"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"John Pai"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0122p80","namepart":"Yoshida, George"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"February 18, 2002","status":"completed","search_hidden":"George Yoshida narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer Yoshida, George 88922nr0122p80","download_large":"denshovh-ygeorge-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-91","model":"entity","index":"23 6098/{'value': 6865, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-91/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-91/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-trudy-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-trudy-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Rudy Tokiwa Interview I","description":"Nisei male. Born July 7, 1925, near San Jose. Grew up in Salinas, California, until he went to Japan at the age of thirteen. Studied in Japan until about 1939. Incarcerated at the Salinas Assembly Center, California, and Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Volunteered out of camp to serve in the U.S. military. Fought in Europe as a battalion runner for the all-Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Single-handedly captured a group of German officers, fought in the famous \"Battle of the Lost Battalion,\" and was present at the liberation of Bruyeres. Was recruited to lobby Congress for passage of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act as a representative for Nikkei veterans, and proved invaluable in garnering support among particularly resistant members of Congress.
(This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Because of the full conference schedule, the interview was limited to one hour. The first interview therefore focused primarily on a single topic, namely, the narrator's role in the redress movement.)","extent":"00:42:36","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-91","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":92,"namepart":"Rudy Tokiwa"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Judy Niizawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr011tw3j","namepart":"Tokiwa, Kazuo"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"University of CA, Los Angeles","creation":"September 13, 1997","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Rudy Tokiwa narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nJudy Niizawa interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer Tokiwa, Kazuo 88922nr011tw3j","download_large":"denshovh-trudy-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-287","model":"entity","index":"24 6099/{'value': 6865, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-287/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-287/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-kmasamizu-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-kmasamizu-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Masamizu Kitajima Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born August 1, 1933, in Ookala, Hawaii. At a young age, sent to Japan to live with grandfather and begin ministry training, but returned to the U.S. just before the onset of World War II. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father, a prominent Buddhist minister, was picked up and arrested by the FBI. Mother couldn't support the children alone, so the family entered the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, where they were reunited with father. Father signed \"no-no\" on the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire,\" and moved the family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, in anticipation of repatriating to Japan. Parents changed their minds and did not go to Japan, so the family returned to Hawaii after leaving Tule Lake. After the war, Masamizu established a successful career in airplane mechanics.
(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":"02:41:25","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-287","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":490,"namepart":"Masamizu Kitajima"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr014jw5q","namepart":"Kitajima, Masamizu"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Honolulu, Hawaii","creation":"June 12, 2010","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Masamizu Kitajima narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Kitajima, Masamizu 88922nr014jw5q","download_large":"denshovh-kmasamizu-01-a.jpg"}],"query":{"query":{"query_string":{"query":"Nisei","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"]}}