(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":"00:04:16","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-18","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":722,"namepart":"Sharon Yuen"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"October 26, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Sharon Yuen narrator","download_large":"denshovh-ysharon-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-12","model":"entity","index":"6 6/{'value': 22, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-12/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-12/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-ajim-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-ajim-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Jim Akutsu Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born 1920 in Seattle, Washington. Incarcerated at Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resisted draft, with the rationale that the U.S. government had classified him 4-C, an enemy alien, and he was therefore under no obligation to serve. Imprisoned at McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington. Vocal critic of JACL. Resettled in Seattle, Washington. Thought by some to be the model for the main character in John Okada's No-No Boy. Mr. Akutsu died in 1998.
(This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.)","extent":"00:43:33","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-12","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":2,"namepart":"Jim Akutsu"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"August 28, 1993","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Jim Akutsu narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-ajim-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-119-30","model":"entity","index":"7 7/{'value': 22, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-119-30/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-119-30/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-119/ddr-densho-119-30-mezzanine-9aa213add0-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-119/ddr-densho-119-30-mezzanine-9aa213add0-a.jpg"},"title":"Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 2 (March 6, 1943)","description":"Selected article titles: \"Red Cross Fund Drive Starts Mon. Sumida Announces Plans to Canvass Entire Project\" (p. 1), \"WRA Staff Here Backs Bond Sale 100 Per Cent\" (p. 1), \"Work to Start on Coal Pits; Stafford Will Lead Shovel Crew\" (p. 1), \"Schmoe Arrives, Accompanied by G. Hirabayashi\" (p. 1), \"Male Registrants May Make Changes\" (p. 1), \"WAAC Officer Voices Hope For Nisei Enlistment\" (p. 1), \"Ariz. Centers No Longer In Restricted Area\" (p. 1), \"Evacuee Help Counted On To Harvest '43 Beet Crop - Prospects for coming Season Bright, Scalley Observes\" (p. 2), \"Two Who Escaped From Ariz. Center Arrested In L.A.\" (p. 2), \"Pay Boost Due Beet Workers\" (p. 2), \"Strife Flares Anew At Tule; Two Beaten Up\" (p. 2), \"Deportation Move Rapped\" (p. 2), \"26 More Indefinite Leaves Issued\" (p. 2), \"Overseas Broadcasters Sought by Government. OWI Needs Nisei For War of Words\" (p. 3), \"Lad Follows Flight of Model Plane, gets Lost in Wilds Seven Hours\" (p. 3), \"Use Of Absentee Ballots in Seattle Elections Protested\" (p. 3), \"Bus Patrons to Register Names at Gate\" (p. 3), \"The Nisei Problem. An Article in The Seattle P-I.\" (p. 4), \"Work on Outdoor Basketball Court Delayed\" (p. 7).","extent":"1488W x 2068H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-119-30","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":"March 6, 1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-119-30-mezzanine-9aa213add0-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-2","model":"entity","index":"8 8/{'value': 22, '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-1002-1","model":"entity","index":"9 9/{'value': 22, '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-122-4-3","model":"segment","index":"10 10/{'value': 22, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-4-3/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-4-3/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-ojimmie-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-ojimmie-02-a.jpg"},"title":"James Omura Interview I Segment 3","description":"Childhood in Seattle, Washington: losing mother at an early age, playing sports
This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.","extent":"00:06:01","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-4-3","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":144,"namepart":"James Omura"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","geography":[{"term":"Seattle, Washington","id":"\"http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7014494\""}],"rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"December 9, 1990","status":"completed","search_hidden":"James Omura narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-ojimmie-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-137","model":"entity","index":"11 11/{'value': 22, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-137/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-137/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ymitsuye-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ymitsuye-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Mitsuye May Yamada Interview","description":"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.(Mitsuye Yamada was interviewed together with her two surviving brothers, William Toshio Yasutake and Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. She was interviewed individually on October 9-10, 2002.
Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct their own family history interviews. Individually and jointly, they and other family members had written and gathered material documenting their family history. They shared much of this with me to assist with research and preparation for the Densho interview. Mitsuye's daughter Jeni had coordinated much of the family history work. Jeni participated as a secondary interviewer during the group sessions, October 8-9, 2002.The group interview sessions were conducted in Seattle at the home of Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho. The oldest Yasutake sibling, Reverend Seiichi Michael Yasutake, had passed away less than a year before the Densho interviewing, in December, 2001. The remaining siblings emphasized that his absence left a gap in their discussion of family history. In addition to Jeni Yamada and videographers Dana Hoshide and John Pai, also present during some portions of the group interview were Tom Ikeda, and Mitsuye Yamada's son Kai Yamada.)","extent":"04:29:53","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-137","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":129,"namepart":"Mitsuye May Yamada"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"October 9 & 10, 2002","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Mitsuye May Yamada narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ymitsuye-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-1-1","model":"segment","index":"12 12/{'value': 22, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-1-1/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-1-1/","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 Segment 1","description":"Prewar activities: attending the University of Washington, conducting a study of the Seattle Japanese American community for master's thesisThis 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":"00:06:04","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-1-1","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"}],"topics":[{"term":"Geographic communities -- Washington -- Seattle","id":"293"},{"term":"Community activities -- Associations and organizations -- Community and social service associations","id":"21"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","geography":[{"term":"Seattle, Washington","id":"\"http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7014494\""}],"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","download_large":"denshovh-mfrank-05-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-142","model":"entity","index":"13 13/{'value': 22, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-142/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-142/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-sroger-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-sroger-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Roger Shimomura Interview","description":"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.","extent":"06:44:32","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-142","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":135,"namepart":"Roger Shimomura"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Mayumi Tsutakawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0061b4v","namepart":"Shimomura, Yutaka Roger"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"March 18 & 20, 2003","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Roger Shimomura narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nMayumi Tsutakawa interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Shimomura, Yutaka Roger 88922nr0061b4v","download_large":"denshovh-sroger-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1012-2","model":"entity","index":"14 14/{'value': 22, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1012-2/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1012-2/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-hgordon-06-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-hgordon-06-a.jpg"},"title":"Gordon Hirabayashi Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born April 23, 1918, in Seattle, Washington. Spent most of his childhood in Thomas, Washington, where his parents were part of a Christian farming co-op. Attended the University of Washington where he was active in the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), the conscientious objector movement, and became a Quaker. At the outbreak of World War II, he was one of only a handful of individuals to challenge the curfew and removal orders being enforced against Japanese on the West Coast, citing \"Christian principles,\" and asserting \"a duty to maintain the democratic standards for which this nation lives.\" He turned himself in to the FBI, was found guilty, and served time for violating the curfew order, and failing to report for \"evacuation.\" While serving time for this conviction, Gordon was served with a draft notice and again, refused to comply. He subsequently served another period of time as a draft resister. In 1983, a team of attorneys filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle. Gordon's convictions surrounding the incarceration were vacated by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on September 24, 1987, which argued in part that, \"racial bias was the cornerstone of the internment orders.\"(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":"01:15:22","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-2","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":19,"namepart":"Gordon Hirabayashi"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Edmonton, Alberta, Canada","creation":"October 25, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Gordon Hirabayashi narrator","download_large":"denshovh-hgordon-06-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-161","model":"entity","index":"15 15/{'value': 22, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-161/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-161/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-jpramila-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-jpramila-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Pramila Jayapal Interview II","description":"Born September 21, 1965 in Madras, India. Attended the Jakarta International School in Indonesia before moving to the United States to attend college at Georgetown University. Worked as an investment banker in New York City as well as in the management development program for Physio-Control.
Currently, Pramila is the founder and Executive Director of Hate Free Zone Washington. An activist and writer, Pramila has been actively involved in international and domestic social justice issues for over 12 years, working across Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as domestically with immigrant and refugee communities in Washington state. She speaks frequently at universities and community events on issues of gender, globalization, development and community. She serves on several boards including Chaya, a non-profit organization serving South Asian women in crisis; the Institute of Current World Affairs; and Hedgebrook Women Writers Retreat. Pramila has a Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and a B.A. from Georgetown University in English and Economics. She is also the author of Pilgrimage to India: A Woman Revisits Her Homeland (Seal Press, 2000).
Pramila and HFZ Campaign have received several awards and recognitions for its work, including the City of Seattle's 2002 Civil Rights Award, the Washington Bar Association's Access to Justice Community Leadership Award, the Japanese American Citizens League Leadership Award, the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation's Community Leaders Award, a leadership award from Congressman Jim McDermott, and the Ecumenical Leadership Award from the Washington Association of Churches. In January 2004, Pramila was named one of the top ten Puget Sound regional leaders by the Seattle Times Editorial Board.","extent":"01:39:06","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-161","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":173,"namepart":"Pramila Jayapal"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"June 1, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Pramila Jayapal narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-jpramila-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-156","model":"entity","index":"16 16/{'value': 22, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-156/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-156/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-jpramila-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-jpramila-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Pramila Jayapal Interview I","description":"Born September 21, 1965 in Madras, India. Attended the Jakarta International School in Indonesia before moving to the United States to attend college at Georgetown University. Worked as an investment banker in New York City as well as in the management development program for Physio-Control.
Currently, Pramila is the founder and Executive Director of Hate Free Zone Washington. An activist and writer, Pramila has been actively involved in international and domestic social justice issues for over 12 years, working across Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as domestically with immigrant and refugee communities in Washington state. She speaks frequently at universities and community events on issues of gender, globalization, development and community. She serves on several boards including Chaya, a non-profit organization serving South Asian women in crisis; the Institute of Current World Affairs; and Hedgebrook Women Writers Retreat. Pramila has a Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and a B.A. from Georgetown University in English and Economics. She is also the author of Pilgrimage to India: A Woman Revisits Her Homeland (Seal Press, 2000).
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(William Toshio Yasutake was interviewed together with his sister Mitsuye (Yasutake) Yamada and surviving brother, Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. He was interviewed individually on November 14, 2002.
Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct their own family history interviews. Individually and jointly, they and other family members had written and gathered material documenting their family history. They shared much of this with me to assist with research and preparation for the Densho interview. Mitsuye's daughter Jeni had coordinated much of the family history work. Jeni participated as a secondary interviewer during the group sessions, October 8-9, 2002.The group interview sessions were conducted in Seattle at the home of Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho. The oldest Yasutake sibling, Reverend Seiichi Michael Yasutake, had passed away less than a year before the Densho interviewing, in December, 2001. The remaining siblings emphasized that his absence left a gap in their discussion of family history. In addition to Jeni Yamada and videographers Dana Hoshide and John Pai, also present during some portions of the group interview were Tom Ikeda, and Mitsuye Yamada's son Kai Yamada.)","extent":"04:04:06","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-138","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":131,"namepart":"Tosh Yasutake"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"November 14, 2002","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Tosh Yasutake narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ytosh-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-137-24","model":"segment","index":"18 18/{'value': 22, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-137-24/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-137-24/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ymitsuye-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ymitsuye-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Mitsuye May Yamada Interview Segment 24","description":"Renewed hope after discovering illness was misdiagnosed: \"I just decided that I would do something with my life\"Mitsuye Yamada was interviewed together with her two surviving brothers, William Toshio Yasutake and Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. She was interviewed individually on October 9-10, 2002.
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