(William Toshio Yasutake was interviewed together with his sister Mitsuye (Yasutake) Yamada and surviving brother, Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. He was interviewed individually on November 14, 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. In addition to Jeni Yamada and videographers Dana Hoshide and John Pai, also present during some portions of the group interview were Tom Ikeda, and Mitsuye Yamada's son Kai Yamada.)","extent":"04:04:06","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-138","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":131,"namepart":"Tosh Yasutake"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"November 14, 2002","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Tosh Yasutake narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-ytosh-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-5-124","model":"entity","index":"2 702/{'value': 713, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-5-124/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-5-124/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-5/ddr-csujad-5-124-mezzanine-b720b81701-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-5/ddr-csujad-5-124-mezzanine-b720b81701-a.jpg"},"title":"Letter from Masao Okine to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, January 19, 1946 [in Japanese]","description":"A letter from Masao Okine to his parents, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine in Hawthorne, California. This letter is written in Japan where Masao is stationed as a U.S. military soldier and mailed via San Francisco by the U.S. Army Postal Service. Masao describes his stay in Japan, being transferred from Sagamihara, Kanagawa, to Tokyo, possibly being transferred to the Tohoku area later. He resides in a building in Tokyo, which used to be a building for Nihon Yu??sen Kabushiki Kaisha [=Japan Mail Steamship Co.] and is located near the Tokyo Imperial Palace. He describes the living conditions in the building, such as a good room like a hotel, well functioning heating system, and good meals. He also writes about his efforts to locate their friends and relatives in Tokyo and Hiroshima. He locates his brother-in-law, Nobuyuki Tanimoto in Tokyo, who also stays in the same building. He learns about other relatives in Hiroshima from Nobuyuki, who has visited Hiroshima. Masao confirms that Tamasada and his family are safe but has not been able to confirm the safety of Jokichi Yamanaka or Naoji Okine in Hiroshima. The handwritten notes on the back of the envelope reads: Arrived on January 28, 1946, no. 2 [in Japanese]. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_01_52_001","extent":"2 pages, 6 x 9 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope","links_children":"ddr-csujad-5-124","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Okine, Masao"}],"topics":[{"term":"Japan -- Post-World War II","id":"165"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"},{"term":"Military service -- Postwar occupation of Japan","id":"199"},{"term":"World War II -- Military service -- Military Intelligence Service","id":"91"}],"format":"doc","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"correspondence","location":"Tokyo, Japan","facility":[{"term":"Rohwer","id":"9"}],"creation":"1/19/1946","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Okine, Masao author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-5-124-mezzanine-b720b81701-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-117","model":"entity","index":"3 703/{'value': 713, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-117/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-117/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-fjoseph-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-fjoseph-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Joseph Frisino Interview","description":"Male of Italian and Irish descent. Born 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland. Grew up in the countryside outside of Baltimore with his parents, younger sister, and maternal grandmother. Raised Catholic, he attended public schools until graduating in 1936 at age seventeen. Began working for the Baltimore News Post in 1937 until the draft of 1940 when he was called to serve one year in the U.S. armed forces. Joined the army at the age of twenty-one, well aware of Hitler's aggression in Europe and fairly certain the U.S. would have to join the war effort to stop him. Went through basic training and was just 2 months away from being discharged at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Mr. Frisino shares his memories of the day Pearl Harbor was bombed and his own personal reaction to the bombing. Went through training as a radio operator, met and married his wife, Harriette, and went through rigorous Officer Candidate School before being shipped overseas to fight for 2 years in the jungles of Burma as a communications supply officer. In 1945, returned home to his wife in Seattle, Washington and began his career at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where he worked for over 50 years. In this interview, Mr. Frisino shares the memories of his own life, as well as his perspective on issues of race and ethnicity.(Mr. Frisino was suffering from a slight cough during the two days of this interview.)","extent":"03:56:21","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-117","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":115,"namepart":"Joseph Frisino"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Jenna Brostrom"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Stephen Fugita"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"June 20-21, 2000","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Joseph Frisino narrator \nJenna Brostrom interviewer \nStephen Fugita interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-fjoseph-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"126","model":"narrator","index":"4 704/{'value': 713, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/126/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/126/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ygeorge.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/ygeorge.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/126/interviews/"},"display_name":"George Yoshida","bio":"Nisei male. Born April 9, 1922, in Seattle, Washington. Parents immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. Attended Bailey Gatzert Elementary School and Washington Middle School in Seattle before his family moved to East Los Angeles in 1936. Incarcerated in Poston Detention Camp #1, Arizona, in April 1942. While in camp, helped organize the \"Music Makers,\" a dance band. Left Poston for Chicago in 1943, and was drafted into the U.S. Army. Underwent basic training in the armored (tank) corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and was subsequently assigned to the Military Intelligence Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Married Helen Furuyama in 1945, and moved to Berkeley, California, and later to El Cerrito, a neighboring community. George earned his teaching credential and taught in the Berkeley School District for thirty-five years. He raised four children: Cole, Clay, Maia and Lian. Organized the J-Town Jazz Ensemble, a 17-piece swing band based in San Francisco, which performs at community events and festivals. Author of the book Reminiscing in Swingtime: Japanese Americans in American Popular Music, 1925-1960, published by the National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, California."},{"id":"ddr-csujad-55-187","model":"entity","index":"5 705/{'value': 713, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-187/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-55-187/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-55/ddr-csujad-55-187-mezzanine-0ff5c072b1-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-55/ddr-csujad-55-187-mezzanine-0ff5c072b1-a.jpg"},"title":"Application for leave clearance, Form WRA 126 rev.","description":"Questionnaire distributed to adult female U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry and aliens. Individuals were required to supply information regarding place of birth, date of birth, citizenship, places of residence, height, weight, hair color, eye color, voter status, marital status and citizenship of spouse, the names and addresses of all relatives living in the United States, the names as addresses of all relatives living in Japan, education, foreign travel, occupation, employer's name, employer's address, religion, memberships in organizations, knowledge of foreign languages, hobbies, personal references, criminal record, foreign investments, financial contributions, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, whether or not the individual's birth was registered in Japan and whether the individual had ever applied for repatriation. In addition, registrants were asked whether they were willing to serve in the Army Nurse Corps or the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, whether they were willing to swear allegiance to the United States, affiliation with the Japanese or Spanish government, registration of children with the Japanese or Spanish Consul, whether the individual had sent children to Japan, types of leave which the individual previously applied for, and kinds of employment desired. Also includes, \"Alternate Question #28: Will you swear to abide by the laws of the United States and take no action which would in any way interfere with the war effort of the United States?\" Form DSS 304a. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0189","extent":"6 pages; 14 x 8.5 inches, typescript","links_children":"ddr-csujad-55-187","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"United States. War Relocation Authority"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Leaving camp","id":"101"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives","rights":"nocc","genre":"misc_document","location":"District of Columbia","creation":"1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"United States. War Relocation Authority author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-55-187-mezzanine-0ff5c072b1-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-5-151","model":"entity","index":"6 706/{'value': 713, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-5-151/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-5-151/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-5/ddr-csujad-5-151-mezzanine-2f6ca0287e-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-5/ddr-csujad-5-151-mezzanine-2f6ca0287e-a.jpg"},"title":"Letter from Masao Okine to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, July 24, 1946 [in Japanese]","description":"A letter from Masao Okine to his parents, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. He writes from Japan where he is stationed as a Nisei soldier. In the letter, he writes about his duties as a jeep driver, working a night shift from 10PM to 6AM. He drives for Japanese coworkers who speak English and serve as interpreters and typewriters. He also writes about his wife's family member, Kimie Tanimoto: During the war, Kimie was deployed in the South Asian countries as a typewriter and nurse, serving for the Imperial Japanese Army. Masao learns that his brother-in-law, Nobuyuki Tanimoto, has decided to join the U.S. military so that he could help his sister, Kimie, in Japan. Masao expresses his willingness to support her as well. He reports that he met Kimie in Japan and confirmed her safety. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_02_01_001","extent":"3 pages, 8.75 x 7.5 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope","links_children":"ddr-csujad-5-151","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Okine, Masao"}],"topics":[{"term":"Japan -- Post-World War II","id":"165"},{"term":"Military service -- Postwar occupation of Japan","id":"199"},{"term":"World War II -- Military service -- Military Intelligence Service","id":"91"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Kibei","id":"45"}],"format":"doc","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"correspondence","location":"Japan","creation":"7/24/1946","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Okine, Masao author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-5-151-mezzanine-2f6ca0287e-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-5-191","model":"entity","index":"7 707/{'value': 713, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-5-191/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-5-191/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-5/ddr-csujad-5-191-mezzanine-055e7552cc-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-5/ddr-csujad-5-191-mezzanine-055e7552cc-a.jpg"},"title":"Letter from Makoto Okine to Mr. S. Okine, March 26, 1946 [in Japanese]","description":"A letter from Makoto Okine to his father, Seiichi Okine. He writes from Italy where he is stationed as a Nisei solder. The letter is mailed via New York by the U.S. Army Postal Service. In the letter, he explains how Seiichi would receive 25.00 dollars of the military family allowance monthly. The government deducts 25.00 dollars from Makoto's salary monthly and mail a check to Seiichi. The process takes one or one and half months. He also writes about his brother, Masao, who is also stationed in Japan as a Nisei soldier. He expresses his interest in Japan and wishes that he was deployed in Japan as a Military Intelligence Service soldier. He always worries about his family in California and hopes that he would be discharged soon. The arrival date of the letter, April 4, 1946, is recorded. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_02_35_001","extent":"2 pages, 8 x 8.75 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope","links_children":"ddr-csujad-5-191","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Okine, Makoto"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Military service -- 442nd Regimental Combat Team","id":"89"},{"term":"Military service -- Post-World War II service","id":"297"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Family","id":"46"}],"format":"doc","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"correspondence","location":"Italy","creation":"3/26/1946","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Okine, Makoto author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-5-191-mezzanine-055e7552cc-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-44","model":"entity","index":"8 708/{'value': 713, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-44/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-44/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mwilliam-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mwilliam-01-a.jpg"},"title":"William Marutani Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born March 31, 1923, in Kent, Washington. During World War II, was incarcerated at the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp to attend college in South Dakota, was drafted into the U.S. Army and served with the Military Intelligence Service during the postwar occupation of Japan. After military service, became an attorney and then a judge. Served as the legal counsel for the Japanese American Citizens League from 1962 to 1970. Was the only Japanese American appointed to serve on the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) during the redress movement.
(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":"ddr-csujad-38-161","model":"entity","index":"9 709/{'value': 713, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-161/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-38-161/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-161-mezzanine-658cadf412-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-161-mezzanine-658cadf412-a.jpg"},"title":"George Naohara's handwritten annotations","description":"English translation of the annotations from \"George Naohara photo album\" (csudh_nao_0001), page 12: [Right] Japan declared a war, and Japanese Imperial Army attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. When the war broke out, Yuta Masukawa was visiting Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. He rode on a streetcar to get to Little Tokyo and bought a record, \"Shina no yoru,\" for his sister, Mitsuko. [Left] Alameda Street was a busy street and streetcars were running alongside the street. There was a Japanese school, which was called \"Banguru,\" on the west side of the street. I visited the post office to check my incoming mails. There was nothing for me. I came here, following my uncle, Koichi Naohara, who had been already settled in the United States. Although I came to the U.S. all the way from Japan traveling by a big ship called \"Kamakura-maru,\" there were no jobs available for me because of the Great Depression. I had a decent job in Japan, working for a post office, which was a Japanese government job, near the Hiroshima Station, and it was difficult for me to accept a job which paid me only 30 cents per hour in the U.S. While I was spending time alone and feeling lonely, I met Masukawa family which had eight children. I was pleased to learn that Mrs. Masukawa was Shuzo Myoren's sister who was from Karuga Asa-gun, Hiroshima. Once I met Mitzi, one of the Maskawa family's daughters, I fell in love. 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In the letter, she describes her new job, making women's leather purses. She packs merchandise into boxes for shipping, earning 65 cents per hour. At work, there are only 12 Japanese workers and other workers are all African Americans. She concludes that American people would be able to be nicer to the Japanese if not occupied by too many Japanese. She also writes about their Japanese friends that she unexpectedly reunites with in Chicago and updates of her husband, Makoto Okine, who is stationed in Japan and works as a truck driver for the U.S. Army. She also expresses her concerns about Hatsuno who is separated from her husband and left alone in California as well as her father-in-law's health condition. The arrival date of the letter, March 11, 1946, is recorded on the backside of the envelope. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_01_59_001","extent":"3 pages, 8 x 10 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope","links_children":"ddr-csujad-5-137","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Okine, Ayame May"}],"topics":[{"term":"Geographic communities -- Illinois -- Chicago","id":"279"},{"term":"Industry and employment","id":"5"},{"term":"World War II -- Leaving camp -- \"Resettlement\"","id":"104"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"}],"format":"doc","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"correspondence","location":"Chicago, Illinois","creation":"3/6/1946","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Okine, Ayame May author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-5-137-mezzanine-ffca0f2f7c-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-132","model":"entity","index":"11 711/{'value': 713, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-132/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-132/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ygeorge-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ygeorge-01-a.jpg"},"title":"George Yoshida Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born April 9, 1922, in Seattle, Washington. Parents immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. Attended Bailey Gatzert Elementary School and Washington Middle School in Seattle before his family moved to East Los Angeles in 1936. Incarcerated in Poston Detention Camp #1, Arizona, in April 1942. While in camp, helped organize the \"Music Makers,\" a dance band. Left Poston for Chicago in 1943, and was drafted into the U.S. Army. Underwent basic training in the armored (tank) corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and was subsequently assigned to the Military Intelligence Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Married Helen Furuyama in 1945, and moved to Berkeley, California, and later to El Cerrito, a neighboring community. George earned his teaching credential and taught in the Berkeley School District for thirty-five years. He raised four children: Cole, Clay, Maia and Lian. Organized the J-Town Jazz Ensemble, a 17-piece swing band based in San Francisco, which performs at community events and festivals. Author of the book Reminiscing in Swingtime: Japanese Americans in American Popular Music, 1925-1960, published by the National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, California.","extent":"03:49:01","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-132","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":126,"namepart":"George Yoshida"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"John Pai"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0122p80","namepart":"Yoshida, George"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"February 18, 2002","status":"completed","search_hidden":"George Yoshida narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer Yoshida, George 88922nr0122p80","download_large":"denshovh-ygeorge-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1024-17","model":"entity","index":"12 712/{'value': 713, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-17/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1024-17/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-17-mezzanine-8f213b2ab6-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1024/ddr-densho-1024-17-mezzanine-8f213b2ab6-a.jpg"},"title":"Japanese Relocation","description":"Narr. by Milton S. Eisenhower, director of the War Relocation Authority. An historical record of the transfer of Japanese residents from the Pacific Coast to the American Interior as carried out the the U.S. Army and the War Relocation Authority. 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them American citizens. Special attention given to possibility of sabotage & espionage.\\n\"Japanese themselves cheerfully handled the enormous paperwork involved.\" Alludes to the auctioning of personal property by government agencies and businessmen, saying that it \"often involved financial sacrifice for the evacuees.\" Narration says that evacuees \"cooperated wholeheartedly,\" noting that \"the many loyal among them felt that this was a sacrifice that they could make in behalf of America's war effort.\"\\nBus and private car caravans, shopkeepers' stores, homes, restaurants, fishing boats are shown. Temporary quarters were in \"assembly centers,\" at race tracks , and fair grounds. San Anita (sp.?) race track , a community of 17,000.\\nDepicts camp life: cafeteria, church services, nursery schools, people engaged in war-related work (making camouflage nets for army). Building new quarters in the desert for the final movement to the relocation camps. Smiling Japanese people being carted off on trains. Medical facilities, Americanization classes, schools, internal government, barracks-style housing, irrigation projects in desert.\\nSome evacuees were \"permitted\" to become fieldhands in sugar beet fields under appropriate safeguards. Describes the goal of the relocation as achieved when \"all adult hands\" are engaged in \"productive work on public land or in private employment.\" And when \"the disloyal have left this country for good.\"\\nRelocation seen as a humane act \"setting the standard for the rest of the world in the treatment of people who may have loyalties to an enemy nation, protecting ourselves without violating the principles of Christian decency.\"\r\n\r\nSee this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/0042_Japanese_Relocation_18_00_50_00.","extent":"00:09:32","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024-17","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"U.S. Office of War Information"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Mass removal (\"evacuation\")","id":"57"}],"format":"av","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"motion_picture","creation":"1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"U.S. Office of War Information publisher","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-17-mezzanine-8f213b2ab6-a.jpg"}],"query":{"query":{"query_string":{"query":"U.S. Army","fields":["id","model","links_html","links_json","links_img","links_thumb","links_children","status","public","title","description","contributor","creators","creators.namepart","facility","format","genre","geography","label","language","creation","location","persons","rights","topics","image_url","display_name","bio","extent","search_hidden"],"analyze_wildcard":false,"allow_leading_wildcard":false,"default_operator":"AND"}},"aggs":{"facility":{"nested":{"path":"facility"},"aggs":{"facility_ids":{"terms":{"field":"facility.id","size":1000}}}},"format":{"terms":{"field":"format"}},"genre":{"terms":{"field":"genre"}},"rights":{"terms":{"field":"rights"}},"topics":{"nested":{"path":"topics"},"aggs":{"topics_ids":{"terms":{"field":"topics.id","size":1000}}}}},"_source":["id","model","links_html","links_json","links_img","links_thumb","links_children","status","public","title","description","contributor","creators","creators.namepart","facility","format","genre","geography","label","language","creation","location","persons","rights","topics","image_url","display_name","bio","extent","search_hidden"]}}