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Born October 5, 1910, in San Francisco, California. At age three, sent to live with grandfather and receive education in Fukuoka, Japan. After high school, temporarily moved to Tokyo and assisted family-owned business. In 1929, returned to U.S. to join parents in Sacramento. After arranged marriage to Mr. Tadao Sakita, moved to Los Angeles, raised three children and jointly ran a successful cafe. Returned to Sacramento after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to be with family in 1942, until all persons of Japanese ancestry were removed from West Coast. Gave birth to a son while at Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After the war, returned to Los Angeles, and converted to Christianity. Remarried to Mr. Terasaki after first husband's death. 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Barbara was active in camp pilgrimages and reunions after the war, as well as volunteering for the Japanese American National Museum."},{"id":"ddr-densho-156-260","model":"entity","index":"9 59/{'value': 68, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-260/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-156-260/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-156/ddr-densho-156-260-mezzanine-090cd1f736-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-156/ddr-densho-156-260-mezzanine-090cd1f736-a.jpg"},"title":"Daily Press Review, Vol. V, No. 20","description":"Article titles: \"Japanese Unfamiliar with Cotton Picking\"; \"Limitations of Jap Labor in Cotton Picking Are Told\"; \"Santa Anita Internees Sent On Way to Arkansas\"; \"Call for 160 Japanese Beet Workers\"; \"Work Going Ahead on Camp at Hunt\"; \"Indian Service Men at Manzanar\"; \"Japs Afraid to Go Into Beet Fields\"; \"Japanese Lads Help Get in Big Montana Beet Crop\"; \"Twenty-two Japanese Placed at Housework\"; \"More Propaganda Material\"; \"Japs From Granada Center Leave for Work in Beet Fields\"; \"Jap Test Case Opens in Los Angeles\"; \"FBI Alien Roundup in Bay Region\"; \"1,304 Aliens Arrested and Interned Since December 7\"; \"Hongkong: Six Months in a Jap Hell\"; \"32 Alien Lawbreakers are Seized in Northern California\"; \"New Bund Roundup: U.S. Opens Drive to Intern Naturalized Citizens Active in 'Dissolved' Nazi Unit\"; \"Ruling on Jap Exile Up to U.S. Court\"; \"Seven Japs Run for Office in Hawaii Elections -- 1 Wins\"; \"Jap Internees Aid in Beet Harvest.\"","extent":"2359W x 3080H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-156-260","topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Facilities, services, and camp administration","id":"69"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"misc_document","creation":"October 5, 1942","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-156-260-mezzanine-090cd1f736-a.jpg"},{"id":"657","model":"narrator","index":"10 60/{'value': 68, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/657/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/657/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/skenji.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/skenji.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/657/interviews/"},"display_name":"Kenji Suematsu","bio":"Nisei male. 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I was convoyed from Maryknoll School to Union Station and directed to a train. I do not remember how many hours I was riding on the train. On the way, they gave me a large box. There was enough food for lunch, including oranges. The train arrived at the Manzanar camp. I saw military police from the train. I was instructed to stay in the train and wait until called. I was called. I received two blankets. The staff guided me to the assigned room. I do not remember how many people were there but maybe five to six people were Kibei young men. I was introduced to them and placed my luggage on my assigned cotton bed. On the first day, the wind grew strong. The windows in barracks were not covered with glass, and the sandy dust came in through the windows. I swept the floor to remove the dust. I saw an unfamiliar young man talking to someone outside. I learned that Dr. Shimizu was also incarcerated in the Manzanar camp. 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