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Elected national director of the Japanese American Citizens League in 1981, and was heavily involved in the redress movement. Regional Director with the U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Service."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1008-3","model":"entity","index":"8 308/{'value': 338, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1008-3/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1008-3/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1008/denshovh-mmitsue-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1008/denshovh-mmitsue-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Mitsue Matsui Interview","description":"Nisei female. Born November 3, 1918, in San Francisco, California. As a young woman, entire family visited Japan for ten months, where she acquired the skill of Japanese typing at the Kumahira Typist Yoseisho in Hiroshima. 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Born January 11, 1934, in Clovis, New Mexico, where father worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. On January 19, 1942, officials rounded up all of the Japanese Americans in Clovis and removed them from the town without warning in the middle of the night in response to an angry mob of townspeople who were threatening the Japanese Americans. They were taken to an unused former CCC camp, Old Raton Ranch, where they were held under guard until the end of 1942. Mr. Ebihara and his family were then transferred to the Topaz concentration camp, Utah, and then resettled in Cleveland, Ohio. Remained in Ohio and established a successful optometry practice.","extent":"01:51:12","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-222","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":322,"namepart":"Roy Ebihara"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr012559q","namepart":"Ebihara, Roy Yusaku"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Denver, Colorado","creation":"July 5, 2008","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Roy Ebihara narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Ebihara, Roy Yusaku 88922nr012559q","download_large":"denshovh-eroy-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"52","model":"narrator","index":"14 314/{'value': 338, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/52/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/52/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mmitsue.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mmitsue.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/52/interviews/"},"display_name":"Mitsue Matsui","bio":"Nisei female. Born November 3, 1918, in San Francisco, California. As a young woman, entire family visited Japan for ten months, where she acquired the skill of Japanese typing at the Kumahira Typist Yoseisho in Hiroshima. Returned to the U.S. with most of her family (eldest brother remained in Japan) and was working at the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco when the U.S. entered World War II. Was incarcerated with the family at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California and Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After spending a year at Topaz, was able to secure employment as a Japanese typist at the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS), Camp Savage and Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Soon thereafter, was temporarily assigned as secretary to Mr. John F. Aiso and remained in that capacity until Major Aiso received orders to go overseas. Married a MISLS instructor, and went again to Japan postwar during her husband's service in the U.S. occupation forces."},{"id":"920","model":"narrator","index":"15 315/{'value': 338, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/920/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/920/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-474_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-densho-1000-474_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/920/interviews/"},"display_name":"Satsuki Ina","bio":"Sansei female. Born May 25, 1944, in the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Her parents, both Kibei, grew up in San Francisco, California. During World War II, they were incarcerated at the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. They signed \"no-no\" on the so-called \"loyalty questionnaire,\" renounced their U.S. citizenship, and were transferred to Tule Lake when it was designated a segregation camp. Dr. Ina became a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of community trauma, and in addition to being an author and activist, has produced two award-winning documentaries, Children of the Camps and From A Silk Cocoon."},{"id":"977","model":"narrator","index":"16 316/{'value': 338, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/977/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/977/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-ajah-1-2_narr.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ddr-ajah-1-2_narr.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/977/interviews/"},"display_name":"Kenneth Narahara","bio":"Sansei male. Born December 16, 1936, in Oakland, California. Grew up in Alameda, California, where parents had a florist business. Immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were forced to leave Alameda, so the family split up and moved to Oakland. Removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After leaving camp, temporarily lived in a Buddhist temple in Oakland before returning to Alameda, where father worked as a gardener and landscaper. Kenneth attended school in Alameda before graduating from business school and working for the Mitsui company in San Francisco."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-164","model":"entity","index":"17 317/{'value': 338, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-164/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-atom-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-atom-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Tom Akashi Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born June 7, 1929, in Merced, California. Grew up in Mount Eden, California, and was removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. 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