(This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.)","extent":"01:11:03","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-193","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":218,"namepart":"Sam Ogo"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Megan Asaka"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Spokane, Washington","creation":"April 25, 2006","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Sam Ogo narrator \nMegan Asaka interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-osam-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"278","model":"narrator","index":"4 229/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/278/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/278/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/kyoshisuke.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/kyoshisuke.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/278/interviews/"},"display_name":"Jack Y. 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Attended school in Japan and then was trained in the Japanese air force as a kamikaze pilot. Instead of being sent into combat, served as a translator because of English language skills. After the war, worked for the U.S. military as an interpreter during the U.S. occupation of Japan. Returned to the United States in the 1950s."},{"id":"51","model":"narrator","index":"6 231/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/51/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/51/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mgeorge.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mgeorge.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/51/interviews/"},"display_name":"George S. Matsui","bio":"Nisei male. Born March 1, 1915, in Los Angeles, California. Spent prewar childhood in Long Beach, California, but attended grade school and junior high in Japan. Returned to the United States to attend high school. In 1941, was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Camp Roberts, San Luis Obispo, California for basic training. Was among the first Japanese American draftees. When World War II broke out, was summarily discharged from the army, reclassified to an enlisted reserve unit, and sent to Santa Anita Assembly Center and then incarcerated at Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Within two months of being incarcerated, was recalled for duty in the Military Intelligence Service. Received Bronze Star for securing the surrender of Japanese military and nonmilitary personnel on the island of Saipan. Served with MacArthur's General Headquarters in Japan."},{"id":"941","model":"narrator","index":"7 232/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/941/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/941/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-chi-1-11_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-chi-1-11_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/941/interviews/"},"display_name":"Ben Chikaraishi","bio":"Nisei male. Born September 10, 1921, in Colusa, California. As a child, family moved to Stockton, California, where parents owned a hotel. Was attending the University of California at Berkeley when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and the family was sent to the Rohwer concentration camp, Arkansas. Left camp to live in Chicago, Illinois, where he became an optometrist."},{"id":"865","model":"narrator","index":"8 233/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/865/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/865/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/fmichael.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/fmichael.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/865/interviews/"},"display_name":"Michael J. Forrester","bio":"White male. Born 1937 in Brooklyn, New York. Grew up in New York, where father was a mechanic. After World War II, enlisted in the Air Force and was sent serve in Japan. While there, met future wife, got married and returned to the U.S. Established a successful career with the Federal Aviation Administration."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1008-1","model":"entity","index":"9 234/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1008-1/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1008-1/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1008/denshovh-kgeorge-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1008/denshovh-kgeorge-01-a.jpg"},"title":"George Koshi Interview","description":"Kibei male. Born June 16, 1911, in Greeley, Colorado. Raised in Denver, Colorado, until the age of five. Sent to Japan for schooling in 1917 and returned to the U.S. at the age of seventeen. Continued his education to eventually become the first Nikkei attorney in the state of Colorado. Drafted into the U.S. Army in March, 1942, and became a member of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS); served as an instructor of Japanese language in the MIS Language School and then as a language specialist in Washington, D.C., and the Pacific Military Intelligence Research Section (PACMIRS) in Maryland. Was hired as a civilian by the U.S. government postwar to provide legal counsel to defendants in the war crimes trials in Japan, and later, supervise Japanese legal and judicial reform. Received a medal commendation from the Japanese government for work in connection with the reformation of Japan's judicial system.
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Born May 23, 1924, in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California. Sent to Japan to live with a relative when thirteen months old. Returned to United States and mother when twelve years old. Incarcerated at Sacramento Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, both in California. Resettled in Sacramento, California. Married George Tsutakawa, renowned artist, and moved to Seattle, Washington."},{"id":"1003","model":"narrator","index":"11 236/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/1003/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/1003/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-509_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-509_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/1003/interviews/"},"display_name":"Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord","bio":"Nisei-Sansei female. Born May 9, 1941, in Seattle Washington. An infant when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, family was sent to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, family returned to Seattle, where Dotti attended school. After high school, moved to Southern California, raised a family, and became a teacher before eventually returning to Seattle."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-184","model":"entity","index":"12 237/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-184/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-184/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hhideo-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hhideo-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Hideo Hoshide Interview I","description":"Nisei male. Born September 25, 1917, in Tacoma, Washington. Grew up in Tacoma except for living in Japan for several years at age four. Attended the University of Washington in Seattle, majoring in Political Science, Far Eastern Studies, with a minor in journalism. Prior to World War II, worked as sports editor for community newspaper, The Japanese American Courier. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was removed along with wife to Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and then Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Had a daughter in Tule Lake, and then moved to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Recruited to work for the U.S. Army's Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was drafted, and trained in India. After the end of the war, was sent to Hiroshima, Japan, to conduct a U.S. government survey studying the effects of the atomic bomb on Japanese citizens. Returned to Seattle in 1946 and was the associate editor for another community newspaper, The Northwest Times. Worked for the Boeing Company postwar while raising a family. Was a founding member of the Seattle Nisei Veterans Committee, working on the group's newsletter for thirty years.","extent":"05:04:07","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-184","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":209,"namepart":"Hideo Hoshide"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr014cb22","namepart":"Hoshide, Hideo"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"January 26 & 27, 2006","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Hideo Hoshide narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Hoshide, Hideo 88922nr014cb22","download_large":"denshovh-hhideo-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-185","model":"entity","index":"13 238/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-185/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-185/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hhideo-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hhideo-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Hideo Hoshide Interview II","description":"Nisei male. 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Worked for the Boeing Company postwar while raising a family. Was a founding member of the Seattle Nisei Veterans Committee, working on the group's newsletter for thirty years.","extent":"04:24:23","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-185","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":209,"namepart":"Hideo Hoshide"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr014cb22","namepart":"Hoshide, Hideo"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"February 1 & 2, 2006","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Hideo Hoshide narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Hoshide, Hideo 88922nr014cb22","download_large":"denshovh-hhideo-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-38-407","model":"entity","index":"14 239/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-407/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-38-407/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-407-mezzanine-6485cc799e-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-407-mezzanine-6485cc799e-a.jpg"},"title":"See Grim fight in the Pacific: repatriates on Gripsholm report Japanese morale high","description":"A newspaper clipping titled: See Grim fight in the Pacific: repatriates on Gripsholm report Japanese morale high. 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See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_03_34_001","extent":"8.75 x 2.5 inches","links_children":"ddr-csujad-38-407","topics":[{"term":"Japan -- During World War II","id":"164"},{"term":"Japan -- United States civilians","id":"380"},{"term":"Military service","id":"296"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"misc_document","location":"Lawrence, Kansas","facility":[{"term":"Poston (Colorado River)","id":"2"}],"creation":"1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-csujad-38-407-mezzanine-6485cc799e-a.jpg"},{"id":"907","model":"narrator","index":"15 240/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/907/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/907/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-459_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-459_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/907/interviews/"},"display_name":"Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi","bio":"Sansei female. Born December 4, 1935, in Sawtelle, California. Grew up in Huntington Beach, California, where father worked as a chauffeur. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was picked up by the FBI and taken to the Tuna Canyon Detention Station. He rejoined the family at the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the family was then sent to the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Parents decided to go to Japan and were sent to Tule Lake, but eventually decided to remain in the United States. After leaving camp, returned to Los Angeles. Barbara was active in camp pilgrimages and reunions after the war, as well as volunteering for the Japanese American National Museum."},{"id":"516","model":"narrator","index":"16 241/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/516/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/516/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mhikaru.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mhikaru.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/516/interviews/"},"display_name":"Hikaru Morohoshi","bio":"Kibei Nisei male. Born October 4, 1915, in Stockton, California. As a young child, sent to Japan to live with grandparents and attend school. Returned to California at age eighteen, and drafted into the U.S. military. Discharged from the army after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, Washington, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Answered \"no-no\" on the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire\" and was transferred to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving Tule Lake, lived in Maryland and Florida before eventually returning to California."},{"id":"ddr-csujad-5-249","model":"entity","index":"17 242/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-5-249/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-5-249/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-5/ddr-csujad-5-249-mezzanine-7c384027cb-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-5/ddr-csujad-5-249-mezzanine-7c384027cb-a.jpg"},"title":"Letter from Jokichi Yamanaka to Mr. S. Okine, January 20, 1948 [in Japanese]","description":"A letter from Jokichi Yamanaka in Hiroshima, Japan to his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. Jokichi expresses his gratitude for the gifts that were sent by his niece, Hatsuno Hotty Befu. He explains that while the gifts from Seiichi mainly include clothing, he is often running out of food in Japan and is thus so thankful to receive the gift of food from Hatsuno. Jokichi also updates on the status of his application for a reentry permit to the U.S., assuming that he would be able to return in May or June. The letter is resealed with the tape, \"OPENED BY MIL. CEN. CIVIL MAILS,\" and stamped with \"C.C.D. J-2964\" by the Civil Censorship Detachment. The arrival date of the letter, February 18, 1948, is recorded on the backside of the envelope. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_02_80_001","extent":"1 page, 8.25 x 13.25 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope","links_children":"ddr-csujad-5-249","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Yamanaka, Jokichi"}],"topics":[{"term":"Identity and values -- Family","id":"46"},{"term":"Japan -- Post-World War II","id":"165"},{"term":"Military service -- Postwar occupation of Japan","id":"199"}],"format":"doc","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"correspondence","location":"Hiroshima, Japan","creation":"1/20/1948","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Yamanaka, Jokichi author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-5-249-mezzanine-7c384027cb-a.jpg"},{"id":"576","model":"narrator","index":"18 243/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/576/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/576/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/utetsushi.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/utetsushi.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/576/interviews/"},"display_name":"Tetsushi Marvin Uratsu","bio":"Nisei male. Born February 7, 1925, in Sacramento, California. At a very young age, sent to Japan for several years. Returned at age six and lived with family in Loomis, California. During World War II, removed to the Arboga Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Transferred briefly to the Amache concentration camp, Colorado, before leaving camp with the help of a Quaker group to work as a houseboy in Des Moines, Iowa, while attending high school. Volunteered for the Military Intelligence Service, and served in Japan during the U.S. occupation."},{"id":"652","model":"narrator","index":"19 244/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/652/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/652/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/hgrace_2.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/hgrace_2.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/652/interviews/"},"display_name":"Grace Hata","bio":"Nisei female. Born December 5, 1930, in Gardena, California. Grew up in Gardena where parents ran a restaurant. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was arrested and taken away by the FBI. During mass removal, family was sent to the Manzanar concentration camp, California, and reunited with father. Following the Leave Clearance questionnaire in 1943, family transferred to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and then repatriated to Japan. Grace lived and worked in Japan for a year and a half before returning to California, finishing school, and becoming a nurse."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-461","model":"entity","index":"20 245/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-461/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-461/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-461-1-mezzanine-440a0b90d7-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-461-1-mezzanine-440a0b90d7-a.jpg"},"title":"Ronald Ikejiri Interview","description":"Sansei male. Born December 3, 1948, in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, parents had been incarcerated at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Father signed 'no-no' on the so-called 'loyalty questionnaire', renounced U.S. citizenship, and was sent to the Department of Justice camp at Bismarck, North Dakota. Family did not end up expatriating to Japan, and reunited instead at the Crystal City camp in Texas. After leaving camp, returned to California and started a gardening business in Gardena, California. Ronald attended UCLA and then graduated from the Northrop University School of Law. In the late 1970s, took a position as the Washington representative for the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and worked during the redress movement. Elected to the Gardena City Council in 2001.","extent":"3:04:06","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-461","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":909,"namepart":"Ronald Ikejiri"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"6-Feb-19","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Ronald Ikejiri narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"ddr-densho-1000-461-1-mezzanine-440a0b90d7-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-410","model":"entity","index":"21 246/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-410/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-410/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-swarren-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-swarren-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Warren Koichi Suzuki Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born February 27, 1921, in Seattle, Washington. At age ten, was sent to Japan to live and attend school. Returned to Seattle prior to World War II. During the war, was removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Answered \"no-no\" on the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire\" and was transferred to Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, returned to Seattle and lived with then wife and child in a hostel located in Seattle's Japanese language school. Established a postwar career with the City of Seattle.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 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