(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":"00:58:48","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-99","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":100,"namepart":"Grayce Uyehara"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Larry Hashima"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0044d99","namepart":"Kaneda, Grayce Ritsu"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"University of CA, Los Angeles","creation":"September 13, 1997","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Grayce Uyehara narrator \nLarry Hashima interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer Kaneda, Grayce Ritsu 88922nr0044d99","download_large":"denshovh-ugrayce-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-44","model":"entity","index":"3 1153/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-44/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-44/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mwilliam-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mwilliam-01-a.jpg"},"title":"William Marutani Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born March 31, 1923, in Kent, Washington. During World War II, was incarcerated at the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp to attend college in South Dakota, was drafted into the U.S. Army and served with the Military Intelligence Service during the postwar occupation of Japan. After military service, became an attorney and then a judge. Served as the legal counsel for the Japanese American Citizens League from 1962 to 1970. Was the only Japanese American appointed to serve on the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) during the redress movement.
(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":"129","model":"narrator","index":"4 1154/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/129/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/129/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ymitsuye.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ymitsuye.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/129/interviews/"},"display_name":"Mitsuye May Yamada","bio":"Female, child of Issei parents. Born July 5, 1923, in Fukuoka, Japan while her mother and two older Nisei brothers visited relatives. Named Mitsuye Mei Yasutake at birth. From age 3, grew up in Seattle, WA. Father employed by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as interpreter for twenty years, until separated from family on December 7, 1941 and interned as an enemy alien. Attended Cleveland High School before being removed from Seattle with mother and three brothers in 1942, and incarcerated at Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Allowed temporary leave from Minidoka, to travel with brother William Toshio Yasutake to visit their father, Jack Kaichiro Yasutake, incarcerated at U.S. Department of Justice internment camp in Lordsburg, NM. Released from Minidoka in 1943 to work and attend college in Cincinnati. Received B.A. in English and Art from New York University. M.A. in English Literature and Research from University of Chicago. Married and had four children. Moved to Southern California in 1960. Taught for 23 years at community colleges in Southern California and other institutions, retiring from Cypress College as Professor of English in 1989. Author of Camp Notes and Other Poems, first published in 1976; Desert Run, (1988); writer of numerous other essays, short stories, and poems widely anthologized in collections such as This Bridge Called My Back (1981) and Women Poets of the World (1983). Featured in \"Mitsuye and Nellie: Two American Poets,\" documentary film on Asian women in the United States, aired on national public television, 1981. Founder of MultiCultural Women Writers (MCWW), member of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), and active in many community, arts and cross-cultural programs. Elected to National Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA in 1987 and served for six years. Recipient of numerous awards and honors recognizing her professional and volunteer contributions to society."},{"id":"ddr-pc-29-26","model":"entity","index":"5 1155/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-29-26/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-29-26/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-29/ddr-pc-29-26-mezzanine-5d7df9e85b-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-29/ddr-pc-29-26-mezzanine-5d7df9e85b-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen, Vol. 44, No. 26 (June 28, 1957)","description":"Select article titles: \"Administration Civil Rights Bill On Senate Calendar; Fight Looms\" (p. 1); \"Congress Sends Claims Pay Bill To White House\" (p. 1); \"Supreme Court asks for new arguments in expatriation case\" (p. 1); \"Gakuen dissolved, set up scholarship\" (p. 1); \"Protest Use Of Vested Funds For School Purposes\" (p. 2); \"Nisei judge warns against over-stress of racial groupings\" (p. 3); \"Public Information Meeting Set for Long Beach Area Renunciations\" (p. 3); \"Marysville JACLers proud of manner two of its members spread good name of Japanese Americans to community-at-large\" (p. 4); \"Chicagoan among to 7 'finest fathers in Illinois,' active with Boy Scouts\" (p. 5); \"100 athletes signed for L.A. Nisei Relays at Rancho this Sunday\" (p. 6); \"Seven-year struggle in L.A. succeeds, ban race bias on city-aided property\" (p. 7); \"Race, Religious Bias Best Tools of Communism\" (p. 8); \"JACL Seeks Clarification Of New Calif. Old-Age Pension to Aliens\" (p. 8); \"Korean American named to AG post\" (p. 8); \"Ex-Marine of Mexican descent who grew up with Nisei feted on 'This Is Your Life'\" (p. 8).","extent":"11W x 17H","links_children":"ddr-pc-29-26","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"Japanese American Citizens League"}],"topics":[{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Civil rights","id":"234"},{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Politics","id":"235"},{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Politics -- Political systems and ideologies -- Communism","id":"449"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California","id":"271"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California -- Los Angeles","id":"272"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California -- San Francisco","id":"273"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- Hawai'i","id":"277"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- Oregon","id":"284"},{"term":"Community activities -- Associations and organizations -- The Japanese American Citizens League","id":"20"},{"term":"Community activities -- Funerals","id":"308"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Issei","id":"43"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Japanese American identity","id":"47"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Korean American identity","id":"458"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"},{"term":"Industry and employment -- Law","id":"362"},{"term":"Journalism and media -- Community publications -- Pacific Citizen","id":"389"},{"term":"Race and racism -- Discrimination","id":"37"},{"term":"Redress and reparations -- Receiving redress checks and apology","id":"117"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"periodical","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"06/28/1957","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Japanese American Citizens League publisher","download_large":"ddr-pc-29-26-mezzanine-5d7df9e85b-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-299-247","model":"entity","index":"6 1156/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-247/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-299-247/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-299/ddr-densho-299-247-mezzanine-4da001751a-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-299/ddr-densho-299-247-mezzanine-4da001751a-a.jpg"},"title":"Ted Akimoto's Army Photographer patch","description":"Caption: \"At the end of WWII I was fortunate enough to be Photo Assignment Officer for the Signal Photo / division of the Supreme Command Allied Powers (SCAP) in Tokyo, Japan. Our responsibilities / were to take all newsworthy still photographs and newsreels requested by the Public Information / Office of SCAP. All photos taken in Japan, except for the surrender ceremony on the USS / Missouri (US Navy Photos), were taken by our outfit. Our outfit was like a \"Mash\" organization as / we had a very laid back commanding officer, one obnoxious captain, a warrant officer who was / like \"Radar\" and could solve any problem with administration and supply, photographers who / learned quickly, a great sergeant who would cover my desk whenever I went out on interesting / assignments, Worsham (my buddy) who was in charge of the photo labs 20 Japanese personnel, / and a jeep of my own. We also had a special ID card issued by General MAcArthur's office which / stated, 'The bearer will not be interfered with in the performance of his duties' which meant / we could even go into 'off limit' areas with impunity. Truly a dream assignment.\"","extent":"2W x 2H","links_children":"ddr-densho-299-247","topics":[{"term":"Military service -- Postwar occupation of Japan","id":"199"},{"term":"Industry and employment -- Photography","id":"366"}],"format":"img","persons":[{"namepart":"Akimoto, Theodore"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"photograph","creation":"c.1940s","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Akimoto, Theodore","download_large":"ddr-densho-299-247-mezzanine-4da001751a-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-84","model":"entity","index":"7 1157/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-84/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-84/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-snobu-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-snobu-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Nobu Suzuki Interview I","description":"Nisei female. Born November 25, 1909, in Seattle, Washington. Father established one of the largest oyster companies in the United States prior to World War II. Graduated from Garfield High School, the University of Washington, and then the Pacific School of Religion where she earned a master's degree in religious education. At the outbreak of WWII, assisted Nikkei who lost their jobs and worked with the WRA to help those families trying to relocate inland before the mass removal. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, with husband who served as one of the camp's physicians. While incarcerated, worked on the student relocation and job leave programs. Maintained an active involvement in the Young Christian Women's Association throughout the war, and postwar. Resettled first in Spokane, than later in Seattle. After the war, became active in a myriad of organizations, including, the national PTA, American Association of University Women, League of Women's Voters, and King County Medical Society's women's organization.
(References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.)","extent":"02:21:51","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-84","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":87,"namepart":"Nobu Suzuki"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Dee Goto"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0062b0q","namepart":"Suzuki, Nobuko"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"June 3, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Nobu Suzuki narrator \nDee Goto interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer Suzuki, Nobuko 88922nr0062b0q","download_large":"denshovh-snobu-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-87","model":"entity","index":"8 1158/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-87/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-87/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-snobu-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-snobu-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Nobu Suzuki Interview II","description":"Nisei female. Born November 25, 1909, in Seattle, Washington. Father established one of the largest oyster companies in the United States prior to World War II. Graduated from Garfield High School, the University of Washington, and then the Pacific School of Religion where she earned a master's degree in religious education. At the outbreak of WWII, assisted Nikkei who lost their jobs and worked with the WRA to help those families trying to relocate inland before the mass removal. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, with husband who served as one of the camp's physicians. While incarcerated, worked on the student relocation and job leave programs. Maintained an active involvement in the Young Christian Women's Association throughout the war, and postwar. Resettled first in Spokane, than later in Seattle. After the war, became active in a myriad of organizations, including, the national PTA, American Association of University Women, League of Women's Voters, and King County Medical Society's women's organization.
(References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.)","extent":"01:44:37","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-87","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":87,"namepart":"Nobu Suzuki"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Dee Goto"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0062b0q","namepart":"Suzuki, Nobuko"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"June 11, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Nobu Suzuki narrator \nDee Goto interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer Suzuki, Nobuko 88922nr0062b0q","download_large":"denshovh-snobu-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-91","model":"entity","index":"9 1159/{'value': 1186, '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-119-42","model":"entity","index":"10 1160/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-119-42/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-119-42/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-119/ddr-densho-119-42-mezzanine-fe8c3bd9c2-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-119/ddr-densho-119-42-mezzanine-fe8c3bd9c2-a.jpg"},"title":"Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 15 (June 5, 1943)","description":"Selected article titles: \"Dies' Group Hearing on WRA Opens Monday. Field Men to Give Reports On Centers. Probe Shows Laxity in Evacuee Releases, Rep. Thomas Claims\" (p. 1), \"Loyalty of Nisei Questioned by Dies' Investigator\" (p. 1), \"Opportunity in Mid-West Cities Offered. Dies' Charges Lead to Discontinuance of Training Program\" (p. 1), \"Public Usage of Enemy Languages Rapped\" (p. 1), \"Volunteers Still Waiting to Leave\" (p. 1), \"6 Nisei Soldiers' Visit in Seattle Minus 'Incidents'\" (p. 1), \"Gen. Emmons May Succeed DeWitt As W. Coast Head\" (p. 1), \"New Coast Group Raps WRA Policy\" (p. 2), \"WRA Established to Aid Evacuees Relocate -- Myer\" (p. 2), \"WRA Answers Denver Post's Charges of Food Hoarding and Soft Life\" (p. 2), \"Monthly Population of Minidoka Since October 1, 1942\" (p. 3), \"JACL Plans Credit Union\" (p. 3), \"Reservations for Trains Must be Made in Advance\" (p. 3), \"Swimming in Canal Barred\" (p. 3), \"JACL Included Among 'Agencies for Espionage'\" (p. 3), \"Myer Says WRA Not Wage-fixing Agency\" (p. 3), \"Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Used for Babies' Food\" (p. 3), \"Wrong Way Discrimination?\" (p. 4), \"Departees Must Return Issued Supplies-Housing\" (p. 6), \"Permanent T.B. Sanatoriums at Centers Discussed\" (p. 8).","extent":"1545W x 2049H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-119-42","topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Publications -- Minidoka Irrigator","id":"173"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"pdm","genre":"periodical","location":"Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho","facility":[{"term":"Minidoka","id":"8"}],"creation":"June 5, 1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-119-42-mezzanine-fe8c3bd9c2-a.jpg"},{"id":"963","model":"narrator","index":"11 1161/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/963/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/963/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/963/interviews/"},"display_name":"Kathy Yamaguchi","bio":"Kathy Yamaguchi (pseudonym) was born in 1948 as a Sansei daughter of a homemaker and a gardener, who had met in the incarceration camp in Topaz, Utah. Yamaguchi calls her father an \"assimilationist\" who mostly associated with non-Asians, and she feels that she, too, did not have a lot of Japanese American friends when she was growing up. When Yamaguchi began to pursue medical education at the University of California, San Francisco, in 1971, she realized how her lack of exposure to professional role models, as well as her experience of growing up in an extremely \"non-verbal\" family, made it a challenge for her to be in a decision-making position. She describes herself as being only \"around on the fringes\" of the Asian American activism in the 1970s. She joined the East Bay Socialist Doctors Group and the Physicians for Social Responsibility, and through members of these groups, she learned in the early 1980s about US survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. She was struck by their graciousness and gratefulness to physicians who offered the needed medical care. \"Given what they've gone through,\" Yamaguchi says, she felt it necessary to assist US hibakusha. She supports a single-payer health care system, and feels that US survivors are one of many groups that have been disadvantaged by the absence of such a system. Yamaguchi also enjoys working with Japanese physicians from Hiroshima who come biannually to conduct a health checkup for American hibakusha. She joined the Sansei Legacy Project beginning in 1990, which put her more in touch with her feelings about being raised by the parents who had been incarcerated during the war. She also made many more Japanese American friends through her participation in the group. At the time of the interview, Yamaguchi worked as a part-time physician in a public clinic serving the underserved patients in San Francisco's Japantown area."},{"id":"ddr-pc-29-13","model":"entity","index":"12 1162/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-29-13/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-29-13/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-29/ddr-pc-29-13-mezzanine-f24a47b7d7-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-29/ddr-pc-29-13-mezzanine-f24a47b7d7-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen, Vol. 44, No. 13 (March 29, 1957)","description":"Select article titles: \"JACL seeks deletion of 'Fuzz Young' text, use of 'Japs' may bias children\" (p. 1); \"First Japanese PW Taken in WW2 Found Working For Car Firm\" (p. 1); \"Nat'l Campaign on Anti-Nisei TV-Films Opens\" (p. 1); \"Hearing dates for Hawaii statehood set in both Houses\" (p. 1); San Francisco 'Nipponmachi' suffers light damage in Mar. 22 earthquake\" (p. 1); \"Fiancees of Canadian Nisei permitted entry under special immigration rule\" (p. 1); \"Nisei woman veterinarian hopes of African post\" (p. 2); \"Entire community of Marsing, Idaho, comes to bat for Nisei whose home was burned down; shows strong public unity\" (p. 3); \"Sacramento Nisei war memorial center all paid up; new directors selected\" (p. 3); \"Nisei form new market cooperative\" (p. 3); Shonien push final bid for $30,000\" (p. 3); \"Detroit CL votes incorporation as non-profit group\" (p. 4); \"'April Showers' dance plans bared\" (p. 4); \"Discussions for four Sunday afternoons on Nisei-Sansei problems to be candid\" (p. 5); \"Nisei in major league ball: hits .000 but with Chicago Cubs he bats 1,000\" (p. 6); \"Celler's immigrant quota plan rapped by Calif. editorial\" (p. 8); \"Civil Rights bill advances step in both House, Senate\" (p. 8); \"Foreign service officers examination date set; application deadline May 1\" (p. 8)","extent":"11W x 17H","links_children":"ddr-pc-29-13","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"Japanese American Citizens League"}],"topics":[{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Civil rights","id":"234"},{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Politics","id":"235"},{"term":"Activism and involvement -- Politics -- Hawaiian statehood","id":"236"},{"term":"Arts and literature -- Performing arts -- Film","id":"249"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California","id":"271"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California -- Los Angeles","id":"272"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California -- San Francisco","id":"273"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- Hawai'i","id":"277"},{"term":"Community activities -- Associations and organizations -- The Japanese American Citizens League","id":"20"},{"term":"Community activities -- Nihonmachi (\"Japantowns\")","id":"27"},{"term":"Community activities -- Sports -- Baseball","id":"314"},{"term":"Education","id":"31"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Sansei","id":"338"},{"term":"Japanese Canadians","id":"200"},{"term":"Japanese Canadians -- Life in Canada","id":"382"},{"term":"Journalism and media -- Community publications -- Pacific Citizen","id":"389"},{"term":"Race and racism -- Discrimination","id":"37"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"periodical","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"03/29/1957","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Japanese American Citizens League publisher","download_large":"ddr-pc-29-13-mezzanine-f24a47b7d7-a.jpg"},{"id":"135","model":"narrator","index":"13 1163/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/135/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/135/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/sroger.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/sroger.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/135/interviews/"},"display_name":"Roger Shimomura","bio":"Roger Shimomura's paintings, prints, and theater pieces address sociopolitical issues of Asian America. The inspiration for many of his works are the diaries kept by his late immigrant grandmother for fifty-six years. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, and his graduate degree from Syracuse University, New York. Shimomura has had more than 100 solo exhibitions of his paintings and prints, and has presented his experimental theater pieces at such venues as the Franklin Furnace, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. He is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in painting and performance art, a McKnight Fellowship, and a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Fellowship. He was the first artist to be awarded an international Japan Foundation Grant, as well as the first in the state to receive the Kansas Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Painting. In fall 1990, Shimomura was appointed the Dayton Hudson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Shimomura has lectured on his work at more than 160 universities and art museums across the United States. In 1994 he was designated a University Distinguished Professor on the University of Kansas faculty, the first so honored in the history of the School of Fine Arts at that campus. In 1998, he received the Higuchi Research Prize, the highest annual honor bestowed on a Kansas University faculty member in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1999, the Seattle Urban League named a scholarship for him that is awarded annually to a Seattle resident pursuing a career in art. The College Art Association presented him with the Artist Award for Most Distinguished Body of Work for 2001, in recognition of his four-year, twelve-museum national tour of the painting exhibition An American Diary. Shimomura's personal papers are being collected by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. He is represented by Jeffrey Hoffeld & Company, Inc., New York; Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago; Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City; Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami; and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle."},{"id":"968","model":"narrator","index":"14 1164/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/968/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/968/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1021-7_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1021-7_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/968/interviews/"},"display_name":"Yuriko Furubayashi","bio":"Yuriko Furubayashi was born January 20, 1927, in Waimea, Hawai'i, as one of the ten children of the family. Her father had come to Hawai'i from Hiroshima in the mid-1910s as a contract worker on a pineapple plantation. He grew vegetables and kept chickens around the house to help feed the family. Her mother cooked Japanese food only in part because meat was hard to come by. Many of their co-workers on the plantation were Japanese, and Yuriko used to go to the after-school school at Hongan-ji with these co-workers' children. Her peers at the public school included Filipinos, Chinese, Polynesians, Portuguese, and Haoles. When she was ten years old, her uncle and aunt in Los Angeles, who had been successful owners of Olympic Hotel, took her to Japan. They were childless, so their plan was to make Yuriko the family's heir. Yuriko quickly adjusted to the life in Japan and graduated from high school. She was working in an airplane factory when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Although she was not injured, she was irradiated because she walked through the city on the day after to look for her aunt and uncle. The entire city was still on fire. She saw many corpses and people with severe nuclear burns. She lost one of her uncles to the bomb. She also visited her friend working at an orphanage, and was struck by how many children had lost their parents to the bomb. In 1948, she went to Hawai'i to see her parents, thanks to the arrangement made by her brother who had come to Japan as part of the US occupation force. She decided that she did not want to go back to Hiroshima where memories of the destruction \"depressed\" her. She studied to regain her English and worked at her sister's bakery near Kahoku. She married a baker, and they became successful owners of another bakery named after their oldest son. Yuriko was somewhat worried about radiation effect when she was pregnant with her first child. She gained hibakusha techo (certificate of survivorhood) issued by the Japanese government in the 1960s. She also regularly attends the biannual health checkups conducted by Japanese physicians for American survivors."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-97","model":"entity","index":"15 1165/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-97/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-97/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ugrant-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ugrant-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Grant Ujifusa Interview I","description":"Sansei male. Born January 4, 1942, in Worland, Wyoming. Graduated from Harvard College in 1965, and went on to earn an M.A. in American History from Brandeis University and an ABT in American Civilization from Brown University. Worked for book publishers Gambit, Houghton Mifflin, Random House, Macmillan, and Reader's Digest magazine. Played an integral part in the Japanese American redress movement of the 1980s, and serves on the Board of the Japanese American National Memorial Foundation as well as the Board of Governors of the Japanese American National Museum. Legislative Strategy Chair of the Legislative Education Committee of the Japanese American Citizens League from 1982 to 1992. Honorary Member, Company K, 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Founding editor and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, published every two years since 1972, when it was nominated for the National Book Award. Married to Amy Brooks, 9/9/79. Two sons, Steven, Harvard '01; and Andrew, Harvard '04.
(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":"00:38:01","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-97","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":98,"namepart":"Grant Ujifusa"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Becky Fukuda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Cherry Kinoshita"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"University of CA, Los Angeles","creation":"September 13, 1997","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Grant Ujifusa narrator \nBecky Fukuda interviewer \nCherry Kinoshita interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ugrant-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1024-61","model":"entity","index":"16 1166/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-61/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1024-61/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-61-mezzanine-6998b82ca2-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-61-mezzanine-6998b82ca2-a.jpg"},"title":"Tanforan: From Race Track to Assembly Center","description":"Documentary film on Tanforan , a former horse racing track that became the site of a wartime \" assembly center \" for incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. The film includes interviews with many former inmates of Tanforan, some of whom lived in what were once horse stalls, including Maya Nagata Aikawa, George and Michiko Uchida, Tomoye Takahashi, Hid Kashima, Sox Kitashima, Dave Tatsuno , Yoneo Kawakita, Hiro Katayama, Sachi Kajiwara, Sugar Hirabayashi, Hiro Fujii, Yo Kasai, Chizu Togasaki, Tomoko Kashiwagi, Toru Saito, and Jan Matsuoka. Tanforan was produced by KCSM, a San Mateo, California based public television station as part of The New Americans series and was directed by Dianne Fukami. Funders for the film included the Chevron Corporation and the Ray and Peggy Daba Fund.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Tanforan: From Race Track to Assembly Center.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-61.","extent":"00:57:00","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024-61","format":"av","contributor":"Densho","rights":"nocc","genre":"motion_picture","facility":[{"term":"Tanforan","id":"15"}],"creation":"1994","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-61-mezzanine-6998b82ca2-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-117","model":"entity","index":"17 1167/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-117/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-117/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-fjoseph-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-fjoseph-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Joseph Frisino Interview","description":"Male of Italian and Irish descent. Born 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland. Grew up in the countryside outside of Baltimore with his parents, younger sister, and maternal grandmother. Raised Catholic, he attended public schools until graduating in 1936 at age seventeen. Began working for the Baltimore News Post in 1937 until the draft of 1940 when he was called to serve one year in the U.S. armed forces. Joined the army at the age of twenty-one, well aware of Hitler's aggression in Europe and fairly certain the U.S. would have to join the war effort to stop him. Went through basic training and was just 2 months away from being discharged at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Mr. Frisino shares his memories of the day Pearl Harbor was bombed and his own personal reaction to the bombing. Went through training as a radio operator, met and married his wife, Harriette, and went through rigorous Officer Candidate School before being shipped overseas to fight for 2 years in the jungles of Burma as a communications supply officer. In 1945, returned home to his wife in Seattle, Washington and began his career at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where he worked for over 50 years. In this interview, Mr. Frisino shares the memories of his own life, as well as his perspective on issues of race and ethnicity.
(Mr. Frisino was suffering from a slight cough during the two days of this interview.)","extent":"03:56:21","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-117","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":115,"namepart":"Joseph Frisino"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Jenna Brostrom"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Stephen Fugita"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"June 20-21, 2000","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Joseph Frisino narrator \nJenna Brostrom interviewer \nStephen Fugita interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-fjoseph-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1024-30","model":"entity","index":"18 1168/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-30/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1024-30/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-30-mezzanine-633fb83731-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-30-mezzanine-633fb83731-a.jpg"},"title":"Day of Remembrance","description":"Documentary film by Cynthia Gates Fujikawa consisting of highlights from 2003 Day of Remembrance (DoR) commemorations in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu, all of which highlight the parallels between what happened to Japanese Americans in 1942 and what was then happening to Arab and Muslim Americans in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The film also includes brief interviews with some of the event organizers and excerpts from press conferences organized in reaction to remarks defending the roundup and imprisonment of Japanese Americans by North Carolina Congressman Howard Coble two weeks prior to the DoRs. Highlighted speakers include Hakim Oaunsafi, Muslim Association of Hawai'i; Nadine Hamoui, whose family in the Seattle area were imprisoned by the INS in 2002; Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council; legal scholar Chris Iijima; Congressman Mike Honda ; and civil rights attorney Dale Minami .\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Day of Remembrance.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-30.","extent":"00:15:40","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024-30","creators":[{"role":"filmmaker","namepart":"Fujikawa, Cynthia Gates"}],"topics":[{"term":"Reflections on the past -- Days of remembrance","id":"393"}],"format":"av","contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"motion_picture","creation":"2003","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Fujikawa, Cynthia Gates filmmaker","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-30-mezzanine-633fb83731-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1024-5","model":"entity","index":"19 1169/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-5/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1024-5/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-5-mezzanine-db65ba80a3-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-5-mezzanine-db65ba80a3-a.jpg"},"title":"Wyoming Chronicle: Aura Newlin Japanese Americans in Wyoming","description":"Aura Newlin, a Northwest College faculty member and board member of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, talks about her family history as a fourth generation Japanese American and a fourth generation Wyomingite, then takes the viewer on a tour of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center , telling the story of the forced removal and incarceration and of the Heart Mountain concentration camp. The last third of video is a sit-down interview between producer Craig Blumenshine and Newlin that covers her students' knowledge of and reaction to the incarceration story, the role and purpose of the museum and the relevance of the story today and its place in Wyoming history.\r\n\r\nProduced by Wyoming PBS and funded by the Wyoming Public Television Endowment, it is part of season nine of the Wyoming Chronicle series. It aired locally on December 15, 2017.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Wyoming Chronicle: Aura Newlin Japanese Americans in Wyoming.\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-5.","extent":"00:28:41","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024-5","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"KCWC TV/Wyoming PBS"}],"format":"av","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"motion_picture","facility":[{"term":"Heart Mountain","id":"5"}],"creation":"2017","status":"completed","search_hidden":"KCWC TV/Wyoming PBS publisher","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-5-mezzanine-db65ba80a3-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1024","model":"collection","index":"20 1170/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1024/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-17-mezzanine-8f213b2ab6-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-17-mezzanine-8f213b2ab6-a.jpg"},"title":"Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films","description":"The Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films includes over 100 films and videos about the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast during World War II. With footage spanning over eighty years, from the 1940s to the present, this library includes a wide range of projects that represent diverse viewpoints on this important episode in U.S. history.\r\n\r\nThe earliest films in this library were created while the incarceration was still ongoing. Jointly produced by the War Relocation Authority and the Office of War Information, these films depicted the incarceration as benignly as possible and highlighted opportunities outside of the West Coast exclusion area, both to encourage incarcerated Japanese Americans to “resettle” in areas outside the restricted area and to encourage other Americans to accept Japanese Americans as neighbors. After decades of silence following the war, documentary films in the 1970s and 1980s—produced in the context of the Redress Movement—told a different story of racism, hardship, and forced removal and incarceration, including many works told from the perspective of Japanese Americans themselves. In the aftermath of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, an era of public funding began in the 1990s, which brought a flood of both documentary and narrative films that look at many aspects of the incarceration story.\r\n\r\nEach of the films included in this collection is accompanied by an article in the Densho Resource Guide to Media on the Japanese American Removal and Incarceration (https://resourceguide.densho.org/). Each article includes a synopsis, background information, production credits, and suggestions for further viewing, as well as links to relevant articles in Densho’s online encyclopedia (https://encyclopedia.densho.org/). \r\n\r\nThere are two primary purposes for this project: preservation and education.\r\n\r\nIt is an unfortunate fact of film history that large numbers of important films are ultimately lost to time. While the earliest government-produced films about the incarceration are readily available, a large percentage of films from the Redress era are difficult to find thirty and forty years later. With the generation of filmmakers who produced these early works aging and even passing on, this is a crucial time to preserve these works for posterity. Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) and its robust infrastructure represent the best way to ensure the preservation and availability of these films. \r\n\r\nAs current events bring renewed interest in the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, the demand for relevant educational materials increases. While recent years have seen large amounts of materials made available online—including archival documents, photographs, and online exhibitions from the National Archives, university libraries, and community organizations, such as Densho—there has not been any systematic effort to collect and preserve film and video in particular. As such, this collection represents an important archive for both historians and educators, whether to show films in classes or to explore the evolution of how the incarceration story has been told over time.\r\n\r\nDensho intends to continue adding films to this digital library, and we encourage the public, as well as filmmakers themselves, to suggest additional titles for inclusion.\r\n\r\nWe hope that the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films can both serve as a resource to help educators and researchers tell the story of the World War II incarceration, while also helping to preserve this important event’s rich filmic legacy.\r\n\r\nThe Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films was created by Densho (https://densho.org/) in collaboration with Internet Archive (https://archive.org/), and was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program (https://www.nps.gov/jacs/). The views and conclusions contained in the films in this library are those of the filmmakers and producers and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions or policies of the U.S. Government, Densho, or Internet Archive.\r\n\r\nSee this collection in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at the Internet Archive.","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024","language":[""],"contributor":"Densho","public":"1","rights":"cc","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-17-mezzanine-8f213b2ab6-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-njpa-1-834","model":"entity","index":"21 1171/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-njpa-1-834/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-njpa-1-834/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-njpa-1/ddr-njpa-1-834-mezzanine-b9463f230a-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-njpa-1/ddr-njpa-1-834-mezzanine-b9463f230a-a.jpg"},"title":"Newspaper clipping regarding Charles Lindbergh","description":"Caption on front [translation]: \"Person of the Day: Lindbergh. Colonel Charles Lindbergh recently returned to America and his important post at the Department of the Army after spending about three and a half years observing the European air world. He has also stated that 'American air power is inferior to that of Germany.'\r\n\r\nLindbergh left his footprints in various countries of Europe, staying in Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Although severely criticized in the Soviet Union for his badmouthing of the Soviet air force, he attracted interest wherever he went as the first aviator to cross the Atlantic. Instead of taking it easy in Britain, he bought a grand piece of land in the Pyrenees, sparking rumors that he was going to settle permanently in France. He travelled all over the continent and his opinions warrant attention, regardless of the question of how many materials he stocked up on before returning to America [?].\r\n\r\nFollowing the kidnapping of his beloved son, an incident which stirred up the public even more than that transatlantic flight, Lindbergh moved into the science world, joining the Rockefeller Institute. His so-called \"\"dark uneasiness\"\" carried him off from his home country, causing him to secretly escape to Britain aboard a cargo ship on December 22, 1935. Although American newspapers mourned at the time that we would \"\"lose the most precious part of our skies\"\", Lindbergh is once again acting as an important person in the American army. Here too, we can clearly see the impact of the present situation. [Stamped] May 20, 1939.\"","extent":"3.5W x 4.25H","links_children":"ddr-njpa-1-834","format":"doc","language":["jpn"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Lindbergh, Charles"}],"contributor":"Hawai'i Times Photo Archives Foundation","rights":"pcc","genre":"clipping","creation":"May 20, 1939","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Lindbergh, Charles","download_large":"ddr-njpa-1-834-mezzanine-b9463f230a-a.jpg"},{"id":"134","model":"narrator","index":"22 1172/{'value': 1186, '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. Mr. Minami is a partner with Minami, Lew and Tamaki in San Francisco, and specializes in personal injury and entertainment law."},{"id":"ddr-pc-29-10","model":"entity","index":"23 1173/{'value': 1186, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-29-10/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-29-10/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-29/ddr-pc-29-10-mezzanine-6aed40ee56-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-29/ddr-pc-29-10-mezzanine-6aed40ee56-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen, Vol. 44, No. 10 (March 8, 1957)","description":"Select article titles: \"Salt Lake bids for 1958 convention 15th Biennial may be co-sponsored by Mt. 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