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(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":"02:17:11","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-376","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":278,"namepart":"Jack Y. Kunitomi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Martha Nakagawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tani Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zt0m","namepart":"Kunitomi, Jack Yoshisuke"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"October 26, 2011","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Jack Y. Kunitomi narrator \nMartha Nakagawa interviewer \nTani Ikeda videographer Kunitomi, Jack Yoshisuke 88922nr015zt0m","download_large":"denshovh-kyoshisuke-04-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-355","model":"entity","index":"12 212/{'value': 280, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-355/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-355/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-kyoshisuke-03-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-kyoshisuke-03-a.jpg"},"title":"Jack Y. Kunitomi Interview I","description":"Nisei male. Born October 10, 1915, in California. Married prior to mass removal, and was sent to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Transferred to the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, and worked on the camp newspaper. Drafted into the army and served with the Military Intelligence Service in the Philippines and occupied Japan.
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