This interview provides an account of the narrator's role in the effort to overturn the WWII military court-martial of Shiro Kashino, a serviceman falsely charged with the assault of an MP officer. Despite the fact that he had never met Mr. Kashino, Bill Thompson joined in the effort to reverse Mr. Kashino's court-martial, performing valuable research in the military archives. Later, Thompson was instrumental in the construction of a memorial to the Varsity Victory Volunteers -- Japanese American ROTC students who were among the first to volunteer for the draft during WWII -- on the campus of the University of Hawaii. Also of note in this interview is Mr. Thompson's unique experience as a biracial soldier serving in the 442nd.
(This interview was conducted at the 1998 Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans National Convention, held in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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Susie's greatest ambition is to be a social welfare worker. She had personal experience with one when her mother was sick and greatly admired the patience and kindness of someone who would put aside their own worries to help others in every way. Second: a stenographer or clerk. She would still get to meet many people and help them but also have her own desk. Stenographers and typists are also always in demand in and out of the camp. Third: Susie would like to be a housewife. She likes the idea of building a life and making decisions and sharing worries and joys with another person. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9003. 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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.","extent":"1:14:46","links_children":"ddr-densho-1021-1","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":963,"namepart":"Kathy Yamaguchi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Naoko Wake"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"15-Jul-11","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Kathy Yamaguchi narrator \nNaoko Wake interviewer","download_large":"ddr-densho-1021-1-1-mezzanine-c34c47b317-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-38-160","model":"entity","index":"7 132/{'value': 141, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-160/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-38-160/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-160-mezzanine-9f86370c3d-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-160-mezzanine-9f86370c3d-a.jpg"},"title":"George Naohara's handwritten note","description":"Handwritten note from \"George Naohara photo album\" (csudh_nao_0001), page 15. 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Major topics represented the collection overall include the experience Mitsuye (Jyoko) Yabe as an immigrant to the United States; the family's business and community activities in Los Angeles, California, through 1942; family members' experiences of forced removal and incarceration during World War II; Miyuki \"Miki\" (Yabe) Yasui's advocacy for redress after the war; and her extensive research on family and Japanese American history. The 275 digitized items that are viewable in the Densho Digital Repository and Oregon Historical Society's Digital Collections consist of photographs, school documents, correspondence, and genealogical research.\r\n\r\nThe 275 digitized selections are a small portion of the overall collection, which consists of 2.8 cubic feet of material, and is available for use onsite at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.","links_children":"ddr-ohs-1","language":["eng","jpn"],"contributor":"The Oregon Historical Society","public":"1","rights":"cc","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-ohs-1-256-mezzanine-2e07060908-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-29-60","model":"entity","index":"9 134/{'value': 141, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-60/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-29-60/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-29/ddr-csujad-29-60-1-mezzanine-bad4050dc6-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-29/ddr-csujad-29-60-1-mezzanine-bad4050dc6-a.jpg"},"title":"An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part II","description":"An oral history with Sumiye Takeno, a current resident of Denver, Colorado. This interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. The purpose of this interview was to gather information regarding Takeno's incarceration and resettlement experience during World War II. Specifically, the interview covers her childhood in Florin, California, her experiences in church and sewing school; her experiences as a nurse's aide at the Manzanar incarceration camp in 1942, detailing camp life, close friends, and recreation; talks about her arranged marriage to her husband, Roy, in 1943 while incarcerated, their engagement party; her Methodist upbringing and faith, her involvement in the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) in the early 1940s; her feelings on \"baishakunin\" or what is known as arranged marriage; her family's roles and actions while living at the camp, her attitude and equipment on and about the camp; comments on her relationship between her husband and herself, her husband's family and their background in Japan, his background living in Fresno, California, size and impact of Roy's family, and change that emanates when a Japanese woman marries into another family; details the importance that medical practicing had on her family life, her husband's health and career in the 1960s while writing as a journalist and acting as an organizer for the JACL; she describes her husband's jobs for such newspapers like the Denver Post and Rocky Jiho; comments on her social circle after the camp in Manzanar, her husband's local fame as a journalist and for his involvement with JACL; she talks about Roy's leadership position in JACL and his roles in the organization in the early 1950s, her feeling about all the letters of support she received when Roy passed away; explains her move to Denver with Roy in the late 1940s due to his new job as a journalist at the Rocky Shimpo, her housing situations between the late 1940s and 1950s in Denver; discusses the location of the newspaper office, Rocky Shimpo, the restaurants and stores that surrounded the newspaper office, the location of the JACL office in 1946; she describes the JACL administration with Min Yasui's leadership in 1946, her feelings about the name change from \"Denver JACL\" to the Mile High Chapter of the JACL in Denver; discusses her family's frugal techniques, simple life, and forms of transportation post-war; her feelings on the incarceration and its effects on the Japanese American community on a national level, the impact the camps had on the communities after the war; how suburbanization impacted her family starting in 1952, the general neighborhoods in Denver that had the largest Japanese American populations; the experiences that JACL gave her, the social and legislative activities she participated in, and the change to civil rights activism in JACL in the 1960s; her feelings on the issue of redress for the Japanese Americans who were interned during the war, and her official active role in the organization in 1987; talks briefly about Min Yasui and his civil rights activism, and about James (Jim) Omura's leadership when he took over the Rocky Shimpo newspaper in 1947; and her description between the Issei and Nisei Japanese Americans. 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In addition, he wanted to be assured that Itabashi and Mary in their old age would always have a home, and he gave to the two American born Japanese ten acres of land upon which in 1926 Itabashi had placed a little home which he had purchased, with the further provision that Itabashi and his wife might live thereon to the end of their days….What more natural disposition of his property could he have made?\"","extent":"6.5W x 8.5H","links_children":"ddr-densho-493-6","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Bogle, Bogle & Gates"},{"role":"author","namepart":"Dobrin, Edward G."}],"topics":[{"term":"Immigration and citizenship -- Law and legislation -- Alien land laws","id":"516"},{"term":"Immigration and citizenship -- Law and legislation -- Legal cases","id":"341"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Faucett, James E."},{"namepart":"Morissey, Emma"},{"namepart":"Pickett, May"},{"namepart":"Stewart, Nancy Hunter"},{"namepart":"Webb, Agnes Marie"},{"namepart":"Webb, Agnes Marie"},{"namepart":"Hodge, Emma Adeline"},{"nr_id":"88922/nr014f286","namepart":"Itabashi, Buichiro \"Johnny\""},{"nr_id":"88922/nr003dg1g","namepart":"Itabashi, Tomio"},{"nr_id":"88922/nr015z81x","namepart":"Nishimura, Frances (Itabashi)"},{"nr_id":"88922/nr015z80f \"Mary\"","namepart":"Itabashi, Kuni"},{"namepart":"Itabashi, Koichiro"},{"namepart":"Donahoe, Walter A."},{"namepart":"Beeler, Adam"},{"namepart":"Dobrin, Edward G."},{"namepart":"Bogle, Bogle & Gates"},{"namepart":"Reed, John F."},{"namepart":"Day, Ellen L."},{"namepart":"Meek, George R."},{"namepart":"Day, John Mills"},{"namepart":"Williams, David J."},{"namepart":"McNary, Anna \"Annie\""},{"namepart":"Neisen, Henry"},{"namepart":"Pitman, Margaret Jane"},{"namepart":"Petersen, A.G."},{"namepart":"Neely, Aaron S."},{"namepart":"Gulstine, Lydia C."},{"namepart":"Hoffman, C.B."},{"namepart":"Brandt, W.H."},{"namepart":"Merritt, Frank D."},{"namepart":"Wilt, Frank T."},{"namepart":"Nicholson, D.A."},{"namepart":"Behne, W.T."},{"namepart":"Thompson, R.H."},{"namepart":"Lochridge, C.V."},{"namepart":"Rodia, William"},{"namepart":"Downing, Walter W."},{"namepart":"Grant, Hanes"},{"namepart":"Lochridge, Pinckney"},{"namepart":"Gibson, Tillie"},{"namepart":"Marvin, Minnie"},{"namepart":"Erickson, Daisy Hughes"},{"namepart":"Howard, Nora"},{"namepart":"Ballard, Jane C."},{"namepart":"Hill, Nora"},{"namepart":"Mounts, F.M."},{"namepart":"Endres, Michael"},{"namepart":"Peterson, H.D."},{"namepart":"Goss, May Stewart"},{"namepart":"Allen, J.C."},{"namepart":"Sicade, Henry Charles"},{"namepart":"Caples, John B."},{"namepart":"Gorman, J.P."},{"namepart":"McDonald, William Walter"},{"namepart":"Merritt, Frank D."},{"namepart":"Okihara, I."},{"namepart":"Evans, Timothy"},{"namepart":"Fukuhara, H.K."},{"namepart":"Murphy, U.G."},{"namepart":"Joslyn, W.P."},{"namepart":"Burson, Jean"},{"namepart":"Burson, William E."},{"namepart":"Knickerbocker and Hunt"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"misc_document","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"c. 1930","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Bogle, Bogle & Gates author \nDobrin, Edward G. author Faucett, James E. \nMorissey, Emma \nPickett, May \nStewart, Nancy Hunter \nWebb, Agnes Marie \nWebb, Agnes Marie \nHodge, Emma Adeline \nItabashi, Buichiro \"Johnny\" 88922nr014f286\nItabashi, Tomio 88922nr003dg1g\nNishimura, Frances (Itabashi) 88922nr015z81x\nItabashi, Kuni 88922nr015z80f \"Mary\"\nItabashi, Koichiro \nDonahoe, Walter A. \nBeeler, Adam \nDobrin, Edward G. \nBogle, Bogle & Gates \nReed, John F. \nDay, Ellen L. \nMeek, George R. \nDay, John Mills \nWilliams, David J. \nMcNary, Anna \"Annie\" \nNeisen, Henry \nPitman, Margaret Jane \nPetersen, A.G. \nNeely, Aaron S. \nGulstine, Lydia C. \nHoffman, C.B. \nBrandt, W.H. \nMerritt, Frank D. \nWilt, Frank T. \nNicholson, D.A. \nBehne, W.T. \nThompson, R.H. \nLochridge, C.V. \nRodia, William \nDowning, Walter W. \nGrant, Hanes \nLochridge, Pinckney \nGibson, Tillie \nMarvin, Minnie \nErickson, Daisy Hughes \nHoward, Nora \nBallard, Jane C. \nHill, Nora \nMounts, F.M. \nEndres, Michael \nPeterson, H.D. \nGoss, May Stewart \nAllen, J.C. \nSicade, Henry Charles \nCaples, John B. \nGorman, J.P. \nMcDonald, William Walter \nMerritt, Frank D. \nOkihara, I. \nEvans, Timothy \nFukuhara, H.K. \nMurphy, U.G. \nJoslyn, W.P. \nBurson, Jean \nBurson, William E. \nKnickerbocker and Hunt","download_large":"ddr-densho-493-6-mezzanine-3728245aa6-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-29-60-1","model":"segment","index":"12 137/{'value': 141, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-60-1/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-29-60-1/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-29/ddr-csujad-29-60-1-mezzanine-bad4050dc6-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-29/ddr-csujad-29-60-1-mezzanine-bad4050dc6-a.jpg"},"title":"An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part II - 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Specifically, the interview covers her childhood in Florin, California, her experiences in church and sewing school; her experiences as a nurse's aide at the Manzanar incarceration camp in 1942, detailing camp life, close friends, and recreation; talks about her arranged marriage to her husband, Roy, in 1943 while incarcerated, their engagement party; her Methodist upbringing and faith, her involvement in the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) in the early 1940s; her feelings on \"baishakunin\" or what is known as arranged marriage; her family's roles and actions while living at the camp, her attitude and equipment on and about the camp; comments on her relationship between her husband and herself, her husband's family and their background in Japan, his background living in Fresno, California, size and impact of Roy's family, and change that emanates when a Japanese woman marries into another family; details the importance that medical practicing had on her family life, her husband's health and career in the 1960s while writing as a journalist and acting as an organizer for the JACL; she describes her husband's jobs for such newspapers like the Denver Post and Rocky Jiho; comments on her social circle after the camp in Manzanar, her husband's local fame as a journalist and for his involvement with JACL; she talks about Roy's leadership position in JACL and his roles in the organization in the early 1950s, her feeling about all the letters of support she received when Roy passed away; explains her move to Denver with Roy in the late 1940s due to his new job as a journalist at the Rocky Shimpo, her housing situations between the late 1940s and 1950s in Denver; discusses the location of the newspaper office, Rocky Shimpo, the restaurants and stores that surrounded the newspaper office, the location of the JACL office in 1946; she describes the JACL administration with Min Yasui's leadership in 1946, her feelings about the name change from \"Denver JACL\" to the Mile High Chapter of the JACL in Denver; discusses her family's frugal techniques, simple life, and forms of transportation post-war; her feelings on the incarceration and its effects on the Japanese American community on a national level, the impact the camps had on the communities after the war; how suburbanization impacted her family starting in 1952, the general neighborhoods in Denver that had the largest Japanese American populations; the experiences that JACL gave her, the social and legislative activities she participated in, and the change to civil rights activism in JACL in the 1960s; her feelings on the issue of redress for the Japanese Americans who were interned during the war, and her official active role in the organization in 1987; talks briefly about Min Yasui and his civil rights activism, and about James (Jim) Omura's leadership when he took over the Rocky Shimpo newspaper in 1947; and her description between the Issei and Nisei Japanese Americans. 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Joseph Yasutake was interviewed together with his sister Mitsuye (Yasutake) Yamada and surviving brother, William Toshio Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. He was also interviewed individually on October 9, 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. 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She also considered applying to the open library position in Manzanar to gain more knowledge and experience. Ch. 3: Lists what is needed to be considered when making goals. Lily wishes to be well-rounded and to catch up on popular books and magazines so she can be a social success. She believes it necessary to earn the respect of others and to understand others well. Ch. 4: Lily had hoped to attend UCLA or USC to study music education. Now, she has been looking at other schools around the country, including Washington State. She then includes a run-down of what is offered at WSU and what has enticed her to apply there. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9006. 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