(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. 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Eventually he moved back to California to start a business with George Aratani.\r\n\r\nThis interview is part of the South Bay History Project created by the South Bay Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.","extent":"1:42:12","links_children":"ddr-densho-400-24","creators":[{"role":"narrator","namepart":"Michael Shigeru Yasutake"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Ron Ikejiri"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Military service -- Military Intelligence Service","id":"91"}],"format":"av","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Culver City, California","creation":"May 13, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Michael Shigeru Yasutake narrator \nRon Ikejiri interviewer","download_large":"ddr-densho-400-24-mezzanine-9f3304bdcb-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-461","model":"entity","index":"5 1530/{'value': 1562, '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. 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(This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Because of the full conference schedule, our interviews were limited to one hour. The interviews therefore focused primarily on a single topic, namely, the narrator's role in the redress movement.)","extent":"00:52:56","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-44","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":50,"namepart":"William Marutani"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Becky Fukuda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Gary Kawaguchi"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zq9m","namepart":"Marutani, William Masaharu"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"University of CA, Los Angeles","creation":"September 11, 1997","status":"completed","search_hidden":"William Marutani narrator \nBecky Fukuda interviewer \nGary Kawaguchi interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer Marutani, William Masaharu 88922nr015zq9m","download_large":"denshovh-mwilliam-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"894","model":"narrator","index":"8 1533/{'value': 1562, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/894/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/894/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-445_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-445_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/894/interviews/"},"display_name":"Frank Sato","bio":"Nisei male. Born March 16, 1929, in Puyallup, Washington. Grew up in the Sumner, Washington, area, where parents had a produce business. During World War II, removed with family to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After the war, attended the University of Washington and the University of Southern California. Established a career in government. From 1953 to 1965, he worked for the U.S. Air Force Auditor General's Office. From 1965 to 1974, he was with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). From 1974 to 1979, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Audit. Became Inspector General at the Department of Transportation and was appointed Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency by President Ronald Reagan. After his government career, Frank served as president of the Japanese American Citizens League and worked as an activist during the redress movement."},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-19","model":"entity","index":"9 1534/{'value': 1562, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-19/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-19/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-uclifford-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-uclifford-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Clifford Uyeda Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born January 14, 1917, in Olympia, Washington. Raised in Washington before attending the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated in 1940. Earned medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, and completed his residency at Harvard Medical School in 1949. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and worked as a pediatrician in San Francisco. While president of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), worked to support the redress movement of the 1980s.
(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":"01:43:47","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-19","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":162,"namepart":"Clifford Uyeda"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"May 5, 1996","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Clifford Uyeda narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-uclifford-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-452","model":"entity","index":"10 1535/{'value': 1562, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-452/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-452/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-452-1-mezzanine-8bec33b459-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-452-1-mezzanine-8bec33b459-a.jpg"},"title":"Bob Suzuki Interview","description":"Nisei-han male. Born January 2, 1936, in Portland, Oregon, where father worked for the railroad. During World War II, removed to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, family moved to a small community outside of Spokane, Washington, to farm. Went to UC Berkeley and Caltech, then taught at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California. He served as chair of the National Education Commission of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and vice chair of the Community Advisory Committee for the Desegregation of the Pasadena Schools. Held several positions in academic administration including Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at California State University, Los Angeles, Vice President for Academic Affairs at California State University, Northridge, and President of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.","extent":"0:00:00","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-452","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":900,"namepart":"Bob Suzuki"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Brian Niiya"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Karen Umemoto"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Janet Chen"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0062d5g","namepart":"Suzuki, Bob Hiro"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Alhambra, California","creation":"1-Dec-18","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Bob Suzuki narrator \nBrian Niiya interviewer \nKaren Umemoto interviewer \nJanet Chen videographer Suzuki, Bob Hiro 88922nr0062d5g","download_large":"ddr-densho-1000-452-1-mezzanine-8bec33b459-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-400-5","model":"entity","index":"11 1536/{'value': 1562, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-5/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-400-5/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-400/ddr-densho-400-5-mezzanine-a406906d98-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-400/ddr-densho-400-5-mezzanine-a406906d98-a.jpg"},"title":"Ken Inose Interview","description":"Ken Inose was born in 1933 in Los Angeles, California, as one of four children to Sejiro and Yoshiko Inose. Before World War II, Ken lived in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles where he had ethnically diverse neighbors. His father was a salesman and his mother was a housewife. When the war broke out, Ken was eight years old and he and his family were initially sent to the Santa Anita Racetrack for processing and eventually sent to the Rohwer, concentration camp, Arkansas. After the war, Ken and his family initially moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, and eventually returned to Los Angeles and to Gardena, California. 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These addresses and phone numbers have been redacted to help protect the privacy of Japanese American communities. 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