(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. 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(Source: Satsuki Ina, daughter of Shizuko Ina, February 2020).\"","extent":"Unknown","links_children":"ddr-densho-151-61","creators":[{"role":"photographer","namepart":"Lange, Dorothea"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Mass removal (\"evacuation\") -- Preparation","id":"189"}],"format":"img","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0085c3g","namepart":"Ina, Shizuko"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"pdm","genre":"photograph","location":"San Francisco, California","facility":[{"term":"Tanforan","id":"15"},{"term":"Tule Lake","id":"10"},{"term":"Topaz (Central Utah)","id":"1"},{"term":"Fort Lincoln (Bismarck)","id":"28"}],"creation":"Apr 25, 1942","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Lange, Dorothea photographer Ina, Shizuko 88922nr0085c3g","download_large":"ddr-densho-151-61-mezzanine-ea18d12816-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-446-362","model":"entity","index":"7 132/{'value': 143, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-362/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-446-362/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-446/ddr-densho-446-362-mezzanine-091eb434ae-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-446/ddr-densho-446-362-mezzanine-091eb434ae-a.jpg"},"title":"Program for Nisei Honorary Degree Ceremony","description":"","extent":"5.5W x 8.5H (closed); 11W x 8.5H (open)","links_children":"ddr-densho-446-362","topics":[{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"},{"term":"Redress and reparations","id":"110"},{"term":"Education -- Higher education","id":"34"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Tsai, Ryo (Morikawa)"},{"namepart":"San Diego State University"},{"namepart":"California State University System"},{"namepart":"California Nisei College Diploma Project"},{"namepart":"Weber, Stephen L."},{"namepart":"Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC)"},{"namepart":"Arakawa, Margaret F."},{"namepart":"Esaki, Aiji"},{"namepart":"Linda Vista Nursery"},{"namepart":"Furuta, Misao"},{"namepart":"Ishino, Iwao"},{"namepart":"Koide, Henry Shigeo"},{"namepart":"Kushino, Helen Hiroko"},{"namepart":"Kushino, June Junko"},{"namepart":"Kushino, Kenji"},{"namepart":"Matsumoto, Ellen Kuyama"},{"namepart":"Matsumoto, Kiyoko"},{"namepart":"Nakaji, Mariko Marion"},{"namepart":"Sato, Jyuichi"},{"namepart":"Sato, Mariko Iwashita"},{"namepart":"Takashima, Noboru R."},{"namepart":"Takashima, Richard Tatsuo"},{"namepart":"Takeda, Viola Midori"},{"namepart":"Tsuneyoshi, Azusa"},{"namepart":"Nixon, Grace H. 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Drafted into the army in 1944 and served at the Military Intelligence Service Language School in Fort Snelling, Minnesota and Presidio, California. After World War II, worked as a chick sexer in upstate New York and surrounding region for thirty years. Returned to Spokane in the mid-1970s and pursued a career in real estate.
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Born in Los Angeles, California on October 13, 1946, and grew up in Gardena, California. Received B.A. in Political Science from University of Southern California, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. Received J.D., 1971, from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California. Mr. Minami was a co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus, Inc., a co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the Asian Pacific Bar of California and the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans. He was involved in significant litigation affecting civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities, including Korematsu v. United States, a lawsuit to overturn a 40 year old conviction for refusal to obey exclusion orders aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII, originally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in landmark decisions; United Pilipinos for Affirmative Action v. 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-densho-1000-116","model":"entity","index":"12 137/{'value': 143, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-116/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-116/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-kjohn-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-kjohn-01-a.jpg"},"title":"John Kanda Interview","description":"Nisei male. 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President of Pierce County Medical Society from 1971-1972. Sumner Rotary Club President in 1971.
(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-1012-7","model":"entity","index":"13 138/{'value': 143, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1012-7/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1012-7/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-mdale-03-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-mdale-03-a.jpg"},"title":"Dale Minami Interview II","description":"Sansei male. Born in Los Angeles, California on October 13, 1946, and grew up in Gardena, California. Received B.A. in Political Science from University of Southern California, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. Received J.D., 1971, from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California. Mr. Minami was a co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus, Inc., a co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the Asian Pacific Bar of California and the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans. He was involved in significant litigation affecting civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities, including Korematsu v. United States, a lawsuit to overturn a 40 year old conviction for refusal to obey exclusion orders aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII, originally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in landmark decisions; United Pilipinos for Affirmative Action v. 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.
(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":"00:14:50","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-7","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":134,"namepart":"Dale Minami"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"February 18, 1984","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Dale Minami narrator","download_large":"denshovh-mdale-03-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1012-6","model":"entity","index":"14 139/{'value': 143, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1012-6/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1012-6/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-mdale-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-mdale-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Dale Minami Interview I","description":"Sansei male. Born in Los Angeles, California on October 13, 1946, and grew up in Gardena, California. Received B.A. in Political Science from University of Southern California, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. Received J.D., 1971, from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California. Mr. Minami was a co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus, Inc., a co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the Asian Pacific Bar of California and the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans. He was involved in significant litigation affecting civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities, including Korematsu v. United States, a lawsuit to overturn a 40 year old conviction for refusal to obey exclusion orders aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII, originally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in landmark decisions; United Pilipinos for Affirmative Action v. 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.
(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":"00:10:42","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-6","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":134,"namepart":"Dale Minami"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"October 4, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Dale Minami narrator","download_large":"denshovh-mdale-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1024-6","model":"entity","index":"15 140/{'value': 143, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-6/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1024-6/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-6-mezzanine-780c0d4fd4-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-6-mezzanine-780c0d4fd4-a.jpg"},"title":"Searchlight Serenade","description":"A 2012 documentary film on Japanese American swing dance bands in the World War II concentration camps. 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The soundtrack includes popular music of the period that the bands played. The documentary also includes contemporary footage of some of the musicians performing.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Searchlight Serenade.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-6.","extent":"00:57:46","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024-6","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"KEET, Eureka, CA"}],"topics":[{"term":"Arts and literature -- Performing arts -- Music","id":"183"},{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Arts and literature","id":"172"}],"format":"av","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"motion_picture","creation":"2012","status":"completed","search_hidden":"KEET, Eureka, CA publisher","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-6-mezzanine-780c0d4fd4-a.jpg"},{"id":"134","model":"narrator","index":"16 141/{'value': 143, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/134/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/134/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mdale.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mdale.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/134/interviews/"},"display_name":"Dale Minami","bio":"Sansei male. Born in Los Angeles, California on October 13, 1946, and grew up in Gardena, California. Received B.A. in Political Science from University of Southern California, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. Received J.D., 1971, from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California. Mr. Minami was a co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus, Inc., a co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the Asian Pacific Bar of California and the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans. He was involved in significant litigation affecting civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities, including Korematsu v. United States, a lawsuit to overturn a 40 year old conviction for refusal to obey exclusion orders aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII, originally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in landmark decisions; United Pilipinos for Affirmative Action v. 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. 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