(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":"01:07:17","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-3","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":138,"namepart":"Ernest Besig"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Witt Mons"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"October 1, 1992","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Ernest Besig narrator \nChizu Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Witt Mons videographer","download_large":"denshovh-bernest-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-11","model":"entity","index":"2 2/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-11/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-11/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-ojimmie-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-ojimmie-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Jimmie Omura Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born November 27, 1912, on Bainbridge Island, Washington. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, moved to Denver and took a job as English Editor of a Japanese American vernacular newspaper, the Rocky Shimpo. As editor, wrote about and supported the Fair Play Committee in Heart Mountain concentration camp. Was charged and tried for conspiracy to counsel draft evasion, and was acquitted on the grounds of the First Amendment and freedom of the press. Mr. Omura was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Journalists Association.
(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":"02:29:25","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-11","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":144,"namepart":"James Omura"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Witt Mons"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"March 21, 1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"James Omura narrator \nChizu Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Witt Mons videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ojimmie-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-9","model":"entity","index":"3 3/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-9/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-9/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Frank Emi Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born September 23, 1916, in Los Angeles, California. Attended Los Angeles City College for one year before leaving to run the family produce business. Married and had a daughter before being removed to Pomona Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. The leader of Heart Mountain's Fair Play Committee, was convicted of resisting the draft, and was imprisoned for eighteen months at Leavenworth, Kansas. After leaving prison, worked for the U.S. post office and the California state unemployment office. Mr. Emi practiced judo as a young person before the war, and postwar, taught at the Hollywood Judo Dojo.
(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":"01:36:54","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-9","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":142,"namepart":"Frank Emi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr004xx71","namepart":"Emi, Frank Seishi"}],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"March 20, 1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Frank Emi narrator \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nChizu Omori interviewer Emi, Frank Seishi 88922nr004xx71","download_large":"denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-29-172","model":"entity","index":"4 4/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-172/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-29-172/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-29/ddr-csujad-29-172-mezzanine-fcb85ecbf9-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-29/ddr-csujad-29-172-mezzanine-fcb85ecbf9-a.jpg"},"title":"[Group at Wu Kong Restaurant]","description":"Candid photograph of group at Wu Kong Restaurant. With: Chizu Omori, Jimmy Omura, Emiko Omori, and Harry Ueno. Oral histories 1765, 2331.00 with James Omura; #1518 with Harry Ueno, COPH, Japanese American Collection. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P113","extent":"color","links_children":"ddr-csujad-29-172","topics":[{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"}],"format":"img","language":["eng"],"contributor":"CSU Fullerton Center for Oral and Public History","rights":"nocc","genre":"photograph","location":"San Francisco, Calfornia","creation":"3/20/1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-csujad-29-172-mezzanine-fcb85ecbf9-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-2","model":"entity","index":"5 5/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-2/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-2/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-sshosuke-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-sshosuke-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Shosuke Sasaki Interview","description":"Issei male. Born 1912 in Yamaguchi ken, Japan. Immigrated to United States in 1919. Lived in Pomeroy, Washington, and Seattle, Washington, before World War II. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled in New York. As a member of the Newspaper Guild, led effort to eliminate pejorative use of \"Jap\" in newspapers. Was a strong critic of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). After moving to Seattle, was active in formulating the \"Seattle Plan\" for redress in the early 1970s.
(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":"01:42:25","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-2","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":82,"namepart":"Shosuke Sasaki"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Paul Mailman"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0060627","namepart":"Sasaki, Shosuke"}],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"September 28, 1992","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Shosuke Sasaki narrator \nChizu Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Paul Mailman videographer Sasaki, Shosuke 88922nr0060627","download_large":"denshovh-sshosuke-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-10","model":"entity","index":"6 6/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-10/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-10/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-yhisaye-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-yhisaye-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Hisaye Yamamoto Interview","description":"Nisei female. Born August 23, 1921, in Redondo Beach, California. Raised in California before mass removal to Parker Dam Assembly Center, Arizona, which was later converted into Poston concentration camp. An aspiring writer, worked for the camp newspaper, the Poston Chronicle, while incarcerated. After leaving camp, returned to California and worked for the Los Angeles Tribune. In 1988, published a book titled Seventeen Syllables and other stories. Hisaye received an American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Before Columbus Foundation, and several of her short stories were adapted into a PBS film, \"Hot Summer Winds.\"
(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":"01:21:34","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-10","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":143,"namepart":"Hisaye Yamamoto"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Witt Mons"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0120j20","namepart":"Yamamoto, Hisaye"}],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"March 21, 1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Hisaye Yamamoto narrator \nChizu Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Witt Mons videographer Yamamoto, Hisaye 88922nr0120j20","download_large":"denshovh-yhisaye-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-6","model":"entity","index":"7 7/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-6/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-6/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-kmits-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-kmits-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Mits Koshiyama Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born August 7, 1924, in Mountain View, California. Grew up in the Santa Clara Valley, California, working on his family's leased strawberry farm. In June of 1942, he was involuntarily \"evacuated\" to Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, then to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Graduated from high school in camp and at the age of 19, refused induction into the military on the grounds that the incarceration violated his Constitutional rights as an American citizen. Served two years at McNeil Island federal penitentiary, Washington. Later resettled in California and established a flower nursery business with his brother.
(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":"01:07:58","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-6","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":125,"namepart":"Mits Koshiyama"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Witt Mons"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zs24","namepart":"Koshiyama, Mitsuru"}],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Jose, California","creation":"October 2, 1992","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Mits Koshiyama narrator \nChizu Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Witt Mons videographer Koshiyama, Mitsuru 88922nr015zs24","download_large":"denshovh-kmits-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-4","model":"entity","index":"8 8/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-4/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-4/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-khiroshi-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-khiroshi-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Hiroshi Kashiwagi Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born November 8, 1922, in Sacramento, California. Spent childhood and adolescence in Loomis, California, before spending senior year in high school in Los Angeles, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to Marysville Assembly Center, California, and then to Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Resisted the draft and renounced U.S. citizenship, remaining with family in Tule Lake when it was designated a \"segregation center.\" Left camp to attend college in California. Working with Wayne Collins after World War II, was able to get U.S. citizenship reinstated in the 1950s. Worked for the San Francisco public library post-World War II. A playwright and actor, Mr. Kashiwagi has performed in many stage productions and has written several plays, including Laughter and False Teeth and Betrayed.","extent":"01:34:06","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-4","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":139,"namepart":"Hiroshi Kashiwagi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Witt Mons"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zs3m","namepart":"Kashiwagi, Hiroshi Ned"}],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"October 1, 1992","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Hiroshi Kashiwagi narrator \nChizu Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Witt Mons videographer Kashiwagi, Hiroshi Ned 88922nr015zs3m","download_large":"denshovh-khiroshi-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-1","model":"entity","index":"9 9/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-1/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-1/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-mfrank-05-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-mfrank-05-a.jpg"},"title":"Frank Miyamoto Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born July 29, 1912, in Seattle, Washington. Wrote 'Social Solidarity Among the Japanese in Seattle' as a Master's thesis, published in 1939 as one of the first academic works on the Japanese immigrant community. Incarcerated in Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Member of the Evacuation and Resettlement Study which studied the incarceration and resettlement of Japanese Americans during World War II. Resettled in Seattle. Was a longtime member of the faculty in Sociology at the University of Washington, served as Chairman of his department, and was Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
(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":"01:34:52","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-1","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":58,"namepart":"Frank Miyamoto"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Paul Mailman"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr010jw30","namepart":"Miyamoto, Shotaro Frank"}],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"September 28, 1992","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Frank Miyamoto narrator \nChizu Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Paul Mailman videographer Miyamoto, Shotaro Frank 88922nr010jw30","download_large":"denshovh-mfrank-05-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-8","model":"entity","index":"10 10/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-8/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-8/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-haiko-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-haiko-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Aiko Herzig Interview","description":"Nisei female. Born August 5, 1924, in Sacramento, California. Grew up in Sacramento and Los Angeles. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California, and transferred to the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Washington representative and researcher for National Council for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR) and primary archival researcher for Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), the three coram nobis cases. Consultant to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History exhibition. \"A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution\"; and consultant for the Justice Department's Office of Redress Administration.
(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":"01:52:29","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-8","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":18,"namepart":"Herzig-Yoshinaga, Aiko"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Witt Mons"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr009rk47","namepart":"Miyazaki, Aiko"}],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"March 20, 1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Herzig-Yoshinaga, Aiko narrator \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nChizu Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Witt Mons videographer Miyazaki, Aiko 88922nr009rk47","download_large":"denshovh-haiko-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-5","model":"entity","index":"11 11/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-5/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-5/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-hjim-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-hjim-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Jim Hirabayashi Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born October 30, 1926, in small town of Thomas, Washington, on family farm. Attended school in Auburn, Washington, before being removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to work in Idaho, and was subsequently joined by family. Postwar, became a social anthropologist, and later became only the second Nisei to teach at San Francisco State University. Instrumental in the struggle to establish the field of Ethnic Studies. Brother of Gordon Hirabayashi, who defied the curfew and removal orders in 1942, and was arrested, convicted, and imprisoned. Gordon Hirabayashi's conviction was vacated in 1986.
(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":"01:33:56","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-5","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":140,"namepart":"Jim Hirabayashi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Witt Mons"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr014b913","namepart":"Hirabayashi, Akira James"}],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"October 2, 1992","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Jim Hirabayashi narrator \nChizu Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Witt Mons videographer Hirabayashi, Akira James 88922nr014b913","download_large":"denshovh-hjim-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-9-17","model":"segment","index":"12 12/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-9-17/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-9-17/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Frank Emi Interview Segment 17","description":"Raising a family
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":"00:02:04","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-9-17","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":142,"namepart":"Frank Emi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"March 20, 1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Frank Emi narrator \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nChizu Omori interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-9-3","model":"segment","index":"13 13/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-9-3/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-9-3/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Frank Emi Interview Segment 3","description":"First impressions of Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming: a \"miserable sight\"
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":"00:06:03","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-9-3","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":142,"namepart":"Frank Emi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Living conditions","id":"67"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","facility":[{"term":"Heart Mountain","id":"5"}],"creation":"March 20, 1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Frank Emi narrator \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nChizu Omori interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-9-13","model":"segment","index":"14 14/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-9-13/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-9-13/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Frank Emi Interview Segment 13","description":"Reasons for joining the resisters' cause: \"I felt so strongly about the injustice of it that I just had to do something\"
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":"00:04:08","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-9-13","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":142,"namepart":"Frank Emi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Resistance and dissidence -- Draft resistance","id":"95"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","facility":[{"term":"Heart Mountain","id":"5"}],"creation":"March 20, 1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Frank Emi narrator \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nChizu Omori interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-9-6","model":"segment","index":"15 15/{'value': 241, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-9-6/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-9-6/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-efrank-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Frank Emi Interview Segment 6","description":"Deciding to qualify answers to the so-called \"loyalty questions\"
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