(This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.
This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, 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":"00:32:42","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-8","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":205,"namepart":"Fred Korematsu"},{"role":"narrator","oh_id":206,"namepart":"Kathryn Korematsu"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr008bb3x","namepart":"Korematsu, Fred Toyosaburo"}],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"November 18, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Fred Korematsu narrator \nKathryn Korematsu narrator Korematsu, Fred Toyosaburo 88922nr008bb3x","download_large":"denshovh-kfred_g-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-5-191","model":"entity","index":"1 151/{'value': 163, '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-csujad-55-1643","model":"entity","index":"2 152/{'value': 163, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1643/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-55-1643/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-55/ddr-csujad-55-1643-mezzanine-1423638209-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-55/ddr-csujad-55-1643-mezzanine-1423638209-a.jpg"},"title":"Supplementary statement by Mr. D. S. Myer","description":"Report by Dillon Myer before the Sub-Committee of the Military Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate regarding the history and activities of the War Relocation Authority and the \"relocation program.\" Includes a memorandum of understanding between the WRA and the War Department, description of problems with the \"evacuation program,\" evacuation of Hawaii, administrative policies on housing, food, education, medical care, employment, public works, community welfare, community enterprises, community government, policies on leaving camp, work leave, group leave, temporary and indefinite leave, evacuee property, activities of the Federal Reserve Bank, activities of the Farm Security Administration, and organization and functions of the War Relocation Authority. Also includes Exhibit 1: Memorandum of understanding as to the functions of Military Police units at the relocation centers and Exhibit 2: Policies pertaining to the use of Military Police at War Relocation Centers. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1645","extent":"32 pages; 10.5 x 8 inches, typescript","links_children":"ddr-csujad-55-1643","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Myer, Dillon S. (Dillon Seymour), 1891-1982"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Administration -- War Relocation Authority (WRA)","id":"403"},{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps","id":"65"}],"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":"1/20/1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Myer, Dillon S. (Dillon Seymour), 1891-1982 author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-55-1643-mezzanine-1423638209-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1012-1","model":"entity","index":"3 153/{'value': 163, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1012-1/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1012-1/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-kfred-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-kfred-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Fred Korematsu Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born January 30, 1919, in Oakland, California. Mr. Korematsu was working as a welder in San Francisco when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After Executive Order 9066 was issued in 1942, he decided to resist the evacuation orders, and was not removed with his family. He was arrested in May of 1942, taken to jail, and eventually transferred to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, where his family was being held. He legally challenged the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, and his case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the order in 1944. Following World War II, Mr. Korematsu moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he married and raised a family before returning to California. In the early 1980s, his case was reopened after the discovery of a crucial document indicating that in the original 1944 case, the federal government had lied to the high court. The conviction was vacated by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in 1983, and in 1998, Mr. Korematsu was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
(This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.
This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, 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":"01:13:52","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-1","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":205,"namepart":"Fred Korematsu"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr008bb3x","namepart":"Korematsu, Fred Toyosaburo"}],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"November 15, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Fred Korematsu narrator Korematsu, Fred Toyosaburo 88922nr008bb3x","download_large":"denshovh-kfred-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1024","model":"collection","index":"4 154/{'value': 163, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1024/","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":"Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films","description":"The Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films includes over 100 films and videos about the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast during World War II. With footage spanning over eighty years, from the 1940s to the present, this library includes a wide range of projects that represent diverse viewpoints on this important episode in U.S. history.\r\n\r\nThe earliest films in this library were created while the incarceration was still ongoing. Jointly produced by the War Relocation Authority and the Office of War Information, these films depicted the incarceration as benignly as possible and highlighted opportunities outside of the West Coast exclusion area, both to encourage incarcerated Japanese Americans to “resettle” in areas outside the restricted area and to encourage other Americans to accept Japanese Americans as neighbors. After decades of silence following the war, documentary films in the 1970s and 1980s—produced in the context of the Redress Movement—told a different story of racism, hardship, and forced removal and incarceration, including many works told from the perspective of Japanese Americans themselves. In the aftermath of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, an era of public funding began in the 1990s, which brought a flood of both documentary and narrative films that look at many aspects of the incarceration story.\r\n\r\nEach of the films included in this collection is accompanied by an article in the Densho Resource Guide to Media on the Japanese American Removal and Incarceration (https://resourceguide.densho.org/). Each article includes a synopsis, background information, production credits, and suggestions for further viewing, as well as links to relevant articles in Densho’s online encyclopedia (https://encyclopedia.densho.org/). \r\n\r\nThere are two primary purposes for this project: preservation and education.\r\n\r\nIt is an unfortunate fact of film history that large numbers of important films are ultimately lost to time. While the earliest government-produced films about the incarceration are readily available, a large percentage of films from the Redress era are difficult to find thirty and forty years later. With the generation of filmmakers who produced these early works aging and even passing on, this is a crucial time to preserve these works for posterity. Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) and its robust infrastructure represent the best way to ensure the preservation and availability of these films. \r\n\r\nAs current events bring renewed interest in the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, the demand for relevant educational materials increases. While recent years have seen large amounts of materials made available online—including archival documents, photographs, and online exhibitions from the National Archives, university libraries, and community organizations, such as Densho—there has not been any systematic effort to collect and preserve film and video in particular. As such, this collection represents an important archive for both historians and educators, whether to show films in classes or to explore the evolution of how the incarceration story has been told over time.\r\n\r\nDensho intends to continue adding films to this digital library, and we encourage the public, as well as filmmakers themselves, to suggest additional titles for inclusion.\r\n\r\nWe hope that the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films can both serve as a resource to help educators and researchers tell the story of the World War II incarceration, while also helping to preserve this important event’s rich filmic legacy.\r\n\r\nThe Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films was created by Densho (https://densho.org/) in collaboration with Internet Archive (https://archive.org/), and was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program (https://www.nps.gov/jacs/). The views and conclusions contained in the films in this library are those of the filmmakers and producers and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions or policies of the U.S. Government, Densho, or Internet Archive.\r\n\r\nSee this collection in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at the Internet Archive.","links_children":"ddr-densho-1024","language":[""],"contributor":"Densho","public":"1","rights":"cc","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-1024-17-mezzanine-8f213b2ab6-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-121-2","model":"entity","index":"5 155/{'value': 163, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-121-2/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-121-2/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-121/ddr-densho-121-2-mezzanine-13d3849d87-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-121/ddr-densho-121-2-mezzanine-13d3849d87-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen Vol. 21 No. 20","description":"Selected article titles: \"Navy Opens Ranks to Japanese Americans\" (p. 1), \"Sgt. Ben Kuroki to Speak on \"Town Meeting of the Air\"\" (p. 1), \"1000 Tule Lake Renunciants Enter Suit to Regain Rights\" (p. 1), \"Evacuee Group Leaves Seattle for Hawaii\" (p. 1), \"Native Sons Want Relocation Camps to be Kept Open\" (p. 1), \"Southern Pacific Railroad Takes Stand Against Racial Intolerance in Placer County\" (p. 2), \"Tule Lake Ex-Citizens File Suits to Regain U.S. Rights\" (p. 2), \"California Files Escheat Suit In Fresno Area\" (p. 2), \"WRA Closes Heart Mountain, Gila Centers\" (p. 3), \"Arizona Camp Emptied Before Deadline Date\" (p. 3), \"Order Closing of Cooperative at Tule Lake Center\" (p. 3), \"Wyoming Relocation Camp Now Empty, Deserted as Last Train Leaves With 205 for California\" (p. 3), \"Police Guard Evacuee Train At San Jose\" (p. 3), \"California Ready to Pay Claims to Evacuee Farmers\" (p. 3), \"Washington News-Letter: Nisei Reveals Experiences of Job-Hunting in Washington\" (p. 5), \"From the Des Moines Register: Iowa Has Accorded Welcome To Displaced Coast Nisei\" (p. 5), \"New York Committee Will Back Japan People's Government\" (p. 6), \"2000 Evacuees Leave Colorado For West Coast\" (p. 8).","extent":"1422W x 2077H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-121-2","format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"periodical","creation":"17-Nov-45","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-121-2-mezzanine-13d3849d87-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1012-10","model":"entity","index":"6 156/{'value': 163, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1012-10/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1012-10/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-sgus-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-sgus-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Gus J. Solomon Interview","description":"Gus J. Solomon, U.S. federal district judge from Portland, Oregon, was involved in Min Yasui's case on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1942, Min Yasui deliberately defied the curfew imposed upon Japanese Americans in Portland, Oregon, and was arrested. His case was tried, and he was sentenced to one year in prison and given a $5000 fine. The appeal eventually reached the Supreme Court, which ruled that the government did have the authority to restrict the lives of civilian citizens during wartime. Yasui's fine was removed and he was released to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. In the 1980s, his case was reopened under writ of error coram nobis, and 1986 his conviction was overturned by the Oregon federal court.
(This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.
This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, 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":"00:14:08","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-10","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":716,"namepart":"Gus J. Solomon"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Portland, Oregon","creation":"October 14, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Gus J. Solomon narrator","download_large":"denshovh-sgus-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-38-161","model":"entity","index":"7 157/{'value': 163, '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. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_01_012","extent":"1 page, 8 x 8.75 inches, handwritten","links_children":"ddr-csujad-38-161","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Naohara, George, 1919-2014"}],"topics":[{"term":"Identity and values -- Kibei","id":"45"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California -- Los Angeles","id":"272"},{"term":"Immigration and citizenship -- Life in Japan and reasons for leaving","id":"2"}],"format":"doc","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"misc_document","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Naohara, George, 1919-2014 author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-38-161-mezzanine-658cadf412-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1024-17","model":"entity","index":"8 158/{'value': 163, '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"},{"id":"ddr-densho-121-12","model":"entity","index":"9 159/{'value': 163, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-121-12/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-121-12/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-121/ddr-densho-121-12-mezzanine-3a68e1d791-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-121/ddr-densho-121-12-mezzanine-3a68e1d791-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen Vol. 22 No. 5","description":"Selected article titles: \"California Demands Federal Government Maintain Financial Responsibility for Evacuees\" (p. 1), \"Window Smashed in Penryn Store Opened by Nisei Ex-GI\" (p. 1), \"Deportation Cases Will Be Handled by International Institute\" (p. 1), \"Hearing on Thirty Deportation Cases Postponed, Says Wirin\" (p. 1), \"Nisei Specialists Worked Behind Lines in Japan\" (p. 1), \"The Alien Land Cases: State of California Pushes Program to Grab Nisei Lands\" (p. 1), \"Minors Who Refused to Renounce Rights to Get State Care\" (p. 1), \"Los Angeles Lawyer Vote on Admitting Non-Whites to Group\" (p. 1), \"Old Law is Instrument for Big California Land Grab\" (p. 2), \"16 Thousand Evacuees Back in L.A. Area\" (p. 2), \"War Prisoner Backs Rights of Canada's Japanese Americans\" (p. 2), \"California Terrorist Admits Shooting Into Homes of Two Japanese American Families\" (p. 2), \"Repatriates Wish They Were Back in U.S.\" (p. 3), \"Canada Seeks Court Verdict on Deportation\" (p. 3), \"Minidoka Camp Will Cease Operations\" (p. 3), \"Two Sisters Who Aided Nazi POWs Returning home\" (p. 3), \"Washington News-Letter: Seek Creation of New Agency To Carry on WRA's Functions\" (p. 5), \"The Fallacy of Race: Wider Range of Relationships Has Emerged From the War\" (p. 5), \"Report Santa Clara County Now Has Largest Percentage of Returned Evacuee Group\" (p. 8).","extent":"1389W x 2032H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-121-12","format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"periodical","creation":"2-Feb-46","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-121-12-mezzanine-3a68e1d791-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-55-187","model":"entity","index":"10 160/{'value': 163, '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. 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What was announced was that all Japanese Americans residing in California and the West Coast should move to “War Relocation Centers” and we, Japanese Americans, complied with the decision made by the U.S. government. We gathered at the Merynoll School in Los Angeles. We were directed to get on a train at the Union Station and sent to the Manzanar incarceration camp. We were allowed to bring one suitcase and one gallon of water. I was incarcerated. Two to three month later, the recruitment of farm laborers was announced: \"Farm laborers for sugar beets are needed in Idaho and Utah. Volunteers will be transported by bus. Follow the instructions.\" I signed up my name and became one of the passengers in a bus. In the bus, I run into Tadashi Sakaida age at 17. Tadashi Sakaida was one of the passengers of the Kamakura-maru which was the ship that I got on when sailing from Japan to the U.S. He was one of my friends. We was delighted to be reunited, and we both worked in a farm together for two years, earning one dollar per hour. [Center] After incarcerated in the Manzanar camp in California, the recruitment of farm laborers for sugar beets was announced. Maybe about 150 people were hired. I was assigned to C.C.C. Camp [Civilian Conservation Corps Camp] in Rupert, Idaho, where young trouble makers were detained. I went to Idaho. They immediately needed to accommodate three meals for all the laborers, and the mess hall work was an urgent demand. That was my first time to meet the cooks and other staff in the mess hall, and I did not know who they were. Among the mess hall staff, George Naohara was a young man at age 20. The mess hall staff consisted of six people. The kitchen work was very busy. [Right bottom] The mess hall of C.C.C. Camp [Civilian Conservation Corps Camp] was well furnished with good kitchen appliances and tools. I was raised in Japan and did not know how to operate or use them, but I was able to figure it out. Senior people and the experienced people taught me how to cook. I was impressed by the facilities in America and admired the advanced lifestyle which was totally different from that of Issei strawberry pickers. 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He was fluent in Japanese and English. Immediately after arriving at the C.C.C. Camp, an announcement of the U.S. government order was made in English. Keny kindly explained to everyone at the Camp what the announcement was in Japanese. He spoke both languages very well. Our group members included: Mr. Hashimoto [Testuo L. Hashimoto], Keny Kuwahara, Mr. Seki, Tadashi Sakaida, and Jimmy Oda. The sugar beets farm was stretching far as if it went beyond the horizon. A long ridge laid and it took us a whole day to take ___. Finally, I had to buy a pair of farm boots. [Right bottom] In Utah, Mr. Mimura ___. When I was working in Utah, Mr. Mimura passed away. At the Utah Bukkyokai, I made a memorial address, representing friends who respected Mr. Mimura. Mr. Mimura contributed to the Japanese American community. Become a good citizen” was his advice to me. When making a memorial address at the Buddhist temple, I stated that I would express my prayer loudly, and I continued: Your whole sprit and soul will rerun to your home country. The Buddhist minister listened to it at the temple and praised me about it. [Left] My magnificent memory ____ When I was working in a hotel in Utah, I made a memorial address at a Buddhist temple. I received a praise from Hoko Terakawa, a minister of the Buddhist Church of America. It has passed decades since then. I was a barber in Los Angeles and Gardena, and am now 91 years old. But I still now remember it and won't forget it. That was when I was only about age 20. 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