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Incarcerated with her family in the Puyallup Assembly Center with a newborn baby, moving to Minidoka concentration camp before relocating to the East Coast. Returned to Seattle in 1947 and became the first Asian American and first woman to work at the Rainier Heat and Power Company, then a key property owner and landlord in the International District. 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During the Redress Movement, the Department of Justice's Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established to identify and administer reparations payments to eligible individuals. As President of the Honolulu chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, worked with the ORA from 1989 to 1998. Later pursued a legal career in Honolulu with Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, and then Dentons.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, findings, 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":"0:44:25","links_children":"ddr-densho-1020-11","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":962,"namepart":"William \"Bill\" Kaneko"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emi Kuboyama"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"nocc","genre":"interview","location":"Honolulu, Hawaii","creation":"December 30, 2019","status":"completed","search_hidden":"William \"Bill\" Kaneko narrator \nEmi Kuboyama interviewer","download_large":"ddr-densho-1020-11-1-mezzanine-b717f42b79-a.jpg"},{"id":"900","model":"narrator","index":"11 1511/{'value': 1557, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/900/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/900/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-452_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-452_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/900/interviews/"},"display_name":"Bob Suzuki","bio":"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."},{"id":"ddr-csujad-44-3","model":"entity","index":"12 1512/{'value': 1557, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-3/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-44-3/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-44/ddr-csujad-44-3-mezzanine-ee73158d34-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-44/ddr-csujad-44-3-mezzanine-ee73158d34-a.jpg"},"title":"Letter from Jimmie Tabata, First Vice President, Japanese American Citizens League Monterey Peninsula to Japanese American Citizens League of Monterey Peninsula Board Members, September 17, 1945","description":"Letter from Jimmie Tabata, First Vice President of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Monterey Peninsula Chapter, explaining to other board members of the JACL Monterey Peninsula Chapter that the JACL Monterey Chapter Hall will be released by the California State Guards, and Guy Curtis, who had been given power of attorney to represent the JACL Monterey Chapter during WWII, would like to relinquish his duties. A letter is enclosed for board members to sign and return to Jimmy Tabata that gives Guy Curtis permission to surrender possession of the JACL Monterey Chapter Hall to Jimmie Tabata and releases Curtis of all power of attorney responsibilities. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0003","extent":"2 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript","links_children":"ddr-csujad-44-3","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Tabata, Jimmie"}],"topics":[{"term":"Community activities -- Associations and organizations -- The Japanese American Citizens League","id":"20"},{"term":"World War II -- Leaving camp -- Returning home","id":"106"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"California State University, Monterey Bay","rights":"nocc","genre":"misc_document","location":"Monterey, California","creation":"16697","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Tabata, Jimmie author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-44-3-mezzanine-ee73158d34-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-17","model":"entity","index":"13 1513/{'value': 1557, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-17/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-17/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-kkats_g-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-kkats_g-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Kats Kunitsugu - Paul Tsuneishi Interview","description":"Kats Kunitsugu is a Nisei female, incarcerated at Heart Mountain concentration camp during World War II. Was on the staff of the camp's newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel.
Paul Tsuneishi is a Nisei male. Incarcerated at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, and was drafted into the military at age eighteen. After World War II, served as a district governor for the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) in Southern California. In his position with the JACL, sought to reconcile the Japanese American community with the World War II draft resisters.(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":"00:43:27","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-17","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":159,"namepart":"Kats Kunitsugu"},{"role":"narrator","oh_id":160,"namepart":"Paul Tsuneishi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0052x2n","namepart":"Hirooka, Katsumi"},{"nr_id":"88922/nr011bh2z","namepart":"Tsuneishi, Paul Hiroshi"}],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"August 22, 1995","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Kats Kunitsugu narrator \nPaul Tsuneishi narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer Hirooka, Katsumi 88922nr0052x2n\nTsuneishi, Paul Hiroshi 88922nr011bh2z","download_large":"denshovh-kkats_g-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-156-334","model":"entity","index":"14 1514/{'value': 1557, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-334/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-156-334/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-156/ddr-densho-156-334-mezzanine-11a5d6b138-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-156/ddr-densho-156-334-mezzanine-11a5d6b138-a.jpg"},"title":"Weekly Press Review No. 22","description":"Original summary excerpt: The Dies Committee investigation continued as most important news source. Statements by various committee representatives and reports of hearings at which former and present Colorado River officials testified received prominent play, particularly in West Coast papers, although the press in other areas also carried wire service dispatches. New accusations reported included one that WRA had tried to \"censor\" the Committee by offering to send a representative to testify at the Los Angeles hearings. The testimony of three former WRA employees, as reported in the newspapers, was distinctly biased against the administration and the evacuees and contained some patently false statements. Dies Committee spokesmen charged that the Japanese American Citizens League was a \"radical organization.\"","extent":"2392W x 3140H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-156-334","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":"June 17, 1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-156-334-mezzanine-11a5d6b138-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-400-14","model":"entity","index":"15 1515/{'value': 1557, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-14/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-400-14/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-400/ddr-densho-400-14-mezzanine-4fc2f8b92b-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-400/ddr-densho-400-14-mezzanine-4fc2f8b92b-a.jpg"},"title":"Ryo Komae Interview","description":"Ryo Komae was born on July 26, 1918, in Los Angeles, California. He was one of three children, and his parents were Tojiro and Komaji Komae. His father was \"watchman\" (security guard) for the Los Angeles City Market and his mother was a housewife. During World War II, he was removed with his family to the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. During the war he enlisted in the army and served with the Military Intelligence Service. After the war, he went to New York and eventually moved to Gardena, California.\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":"1:06:27","links_children":"ddr-densho-400-14","creators":[{"role":"narrator","namepart":"Ryo Komae"},{"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":"California","creation":"May 13, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Ryo Komae narrator \nRon Ikejiri interviewer","download_large":"ddr-densho-400-14-mezzanine-4fc2f8b92b-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-5","model":"entity","index":"16 1516/{'value': 1557, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-5/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-5/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-byone-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-byone-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Yone Bartholomew Interview II","description":"Nisei female. Born July 15, 1906, in Bedderavia, California. Was given for adoption by her parents to a couple who could not have children of their own. Grew up on a family farm and was one of the oldest Nisei in the Santa Barbara area of California. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Widow of Clarence Arai, lawyer and key figure in founding of the Japanese American Citizens League. In her interview, discusses childhood and memories of being married to Clarence during the turbulent war years. After the war, supported the family and cared for the ailing Clarence until his death in 1964. Remarried to George Bartholomew in 1978.","extent":"01:56:23","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-5","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":7,"namepart":"Yone Bartholomew"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tracy Lai"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr006kk84","namepart":"Arai, Vivian Yone"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"May 8, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Yone Bartholomew narrator \nTracy Lai interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer Arai, Vivian Yone 88922nr006kk84","download_large":"denshovh-byone-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-4","model":"entity","index":"17 1517/{'value': 1557, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-4/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-4/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-byone-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-byone-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Yone Bartholomew Interview I","description":"Nisei female. 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