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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":"00:08:54","links_children":"ddr-one-7-17-5","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":686,"namepart":"Atami Ueno"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Stephan Gilchrist"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tim Rooney"}],"topics":[{"term":"Japan -- During World War II","id":"164"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Japanese American Museum of Oregon Collection","geography":[{"term":"Nagasaki, Japan","id":"\"http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7004735\""}],"rights":"cc","genre":"interview","creation":"May 1, 2003","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Atami Ueno narrator \nStephan Gilchrist interviewer \nTim Rooney videographer","download_large":"denshovh-uatami-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"111","model":"narrator","index":"5 830/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/111/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/111/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/iyasashi.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/iyasashi.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/111/interviews/"},"display_name":"Yasashi Ichikawa","bio":"Issei female. Born 1907 in Shimonoseki, Japan. Attended school in Japan, and was encouraged by father to study English. Married a Buddhist minister and immigrated to the United States. Lived in Fresno, California, then returned to Japan for two years. Moved to Seattle, Washington, where husband was a minister at the Seattle Buddhist Temple. During World War II, husband was arrested and imprisoned in the Crystal City Department of Justice Camp, Texas. Mrs. Ichikawa, with her seven children, was removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, then to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Joined husband in Crystal City before returning to run the Seattle Buddhist Temple."},{"id":"148","model":"narrator","index":"6 831/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/148/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/148/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/tminoru.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/tminoru.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/148/interviews/"},"display_name":"Minoru \"Min\" Tsubota","bio":"Nisei male. Born December 1, 1918, in Kent, Washington. Became interested in music in junior high school, and played in various music groups. Upon graduating from high school, worked for a manufacturing plant, and then volunteered for the army. Separated from unit along with other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and eventually served as an interpreter for a court-martial involving the shooting of two Issei men in a Department of Justice internment camp. Assigned to the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, which was involved in liberating the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. Returned to Seattle after the war, and started a successful insurance business."},{"id":"ddr-manz-1-109","model":"entity","index":"7 832/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-109/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-manz-1-109/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-manz-1/denshovh-oarthur_g-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-manz-1/denshovh-oarthur_g-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Arthur Ogami - Kimi Ogami Interview","description":"Arthur Ogami: Nisei male. Born April 10, 1922 in Whittier, California. Spent childhood in California, before being removed to Manzanar concentration camp in 1942. Left Manzanar several times to work as a beet topper for local farmers. Decided to expatriate to Japan because of mother's wishes, and was transferred to Tule Lake concentration camp. In 1945, was moved with brother to Bismarck, North Dakota, a Department of Justice camp, before renouncing U.S. citizenship and traveling with family to Japan. Lived and worked in Japan until the 1950s, when he was able have his U.S. citizenship reinstated and return to the U.S. Raised family in Los Angeles, California.
Kimi Ogawa: Shin-Issei female. Born January 4, 1928, in Fukuoka, Japan. Lived in Japan during World War II, and in this interview, discusses her memories of wartime Japan. Met Arthur Ogami in Japan, married, and immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s.","extent":"01:47:29","links_children":"ddr-manz-1-109","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":170,"namepart":"Arthur Ogami"},{"role":"narrator","oh_id":539,"namepart":"Kimi Ogami"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alisa Lynch"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Kirk Peterson"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr015zs62","namepart":"Ogami, Arthur Mitsuru"}],"contributor":"Manzanar National Historic Site Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Las Vegas, Nevada","creation":"August 10, 2010","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Arthur Ogami narrator \nKimi Ogami narrator \nAlisa Lynch interviewer \nKirk Peterson videographer Ogami, Arthur Mitsuru 88922nr015zs62","download_large":"denshovh-oarthur_g-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-432-14","model":"segment","index":"8 833/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-432-14/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-432-14/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Tokio Yamane Interview Segment 14","description":"Injuries sustained during the beating by War Relocation Authority officials (Japanese language)
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This interview was conducted in Japanese. The transcript is a translation of the original interview. 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":"0:05:51","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-432-33","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":847,"namepart":"Yamane, Tokio"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Sachiko Takita-Ishii"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Yoko Murakawa"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Japan","creation":"23-May-04","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Yamane, Tokio narrator \nSachiko Takita-Ishii interviewer \nYoko Murakawa interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-432-6","model":"segment","index":"10 835/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-432-6/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-432-6/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Tokio Yamane Interview Segment 6","description":"Being beaten up by War Relocation Authority personnel in Tule Lake (Japanese language)
This interview was conducted in Japanese. The transcript is a translation of the original interview. 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":"0:13:41","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-432-6","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":847,"namepart":"Yamane, Tokio"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Sachiko Takita-Ishii"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Yoko Murakawa"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Conflicts, intimidation, and violence","id":"162"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Japan","facility":[{"term":"Tule Lake","id":"10"}],"creation":"23-May-04","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Yamane, Tokio narrator \nSachiko Takita-Ishii interviewer \nYoko Murakawa interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-368","model":"collection","index":"11 836/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-368/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-368/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-368/ddr-densho-368-280-mezzanine-a1eac9e578-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-368/ddr-densho-368-280-mezzanine-a1eac9e578-a.jpg"},"title":"Iino Family Collection","description":"Accession 1: This collection contains selections from two photo albums. One album of photographs and other materials associated with Corporal William Iino's military service with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy and France between 1944 and 1945. The second album contains photographs and other materials associated with the 50th reunion of the 442nd RCT in Hawaii in 1993.\r\n\r\nAccession 2: This collection contains photographs and letters from Bill Iino's time in Italy and Southern France during his military service during World War II. There are also photographs from the 50th reunion of the 442nd RCT in Hawaii in 1993. There are documents from other veteran organizations.\r\n\r\nAccession 3: This collection contains photographs and letters from Bill Iino's time in France during his military service in World War II. There are also blank French postcards and Affidavit Issued by the War Department. The correspondence is between Bill Iino and Jany Lore, Gilbert and Gaby Lodin, Charley Baldi, Suzanne Baume, and Andree Julien. Bill and Jany dated between 1945-1946, and through her he met many people he maintained correspondence with while he served in Europe. Many of the letters were written to Bill in French and were translated into English as part of a student project at Northwestern University which can be viewed online at mydarlingbilly.weebly.com/.","extent":"Accession 1: Two photo albums; Framed collection of medals and patches and other documents. Accession 2: 178 photographs, 55 letters, and 21 miscellaneous documents. Accession 3: 94 letters, 34 photographs, 8 postcards, 2 misc. documents","links_children":"ddr-densho-368","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Iino, William"}],"language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","public":"1","rights":"cc","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Iino, William author","download_large":"ddr-densho-368-280-mezzanine-a1eac9e578-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1012-1","model":"entity","index":"12 837/{'value': 874, '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-1000-432-2","model":"segment","index":"13 838/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-432-2/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-432-2/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Tokio Yamane Interview Segment 2","description":"Looking back on the World War II experience: blaming individuals, not the U.S. government (Japanese language)
This interview was conducted in Japanese. The transcript is a translation of the original interview. 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":"0:06:16","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-432-2","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":847,"namepart":"Yamane, Tokio"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Sachiko Takita-Ishii"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Yoko Murakawa"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Japan","creation":"23-May-04","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Yamane, Tokio narrator \nSachiko Takita-Ishii interviewer \nYoko Murakawa interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-432-1","model":"segment","index":"14 839/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-432-1/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-432-1/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Tokio Yamane Interview Segment 1","description":"Perspectives on why Americans of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated during World War II (Japanese language)
This interview was conducted in Japanese. The transcript is a translation of the original interview. 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":"0:08:00","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-432-1","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":847,"namepart":"Yamane, Tokio"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Sachiko Takita-Ishii"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Yoko Murakawa"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Japan","creation":"23-May-04","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Yamane, Tokio narrator \nSachiko Takita-Ishii interviewer \nYoko Murakawa interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-ytokio-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1012-5-8","model":"segment","index":"15 840/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1012-5-8/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1012-5-8/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-ichizuko_g-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-ichizuko_g-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Chizuko Iyama - Ernie Iyama Interview Segment 8","description":"Rebuilding lives after the war (audio only)
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":"00:07:26","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-5-8","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":715,"namepart":"Ernie Iyama"},{"role":"narrator","oh_id":724,"namepart":"Chizuko Iyama"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"El Cerrito, California","creation":"December 11, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Ernie Iyama narrator \nChizuko Iyama narrator","download_large":"denshovh-ichizuko_g-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"56","model":"narrator","index":"16 841/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/56/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/56/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mtom.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/mtom.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/56/interviews/"},"display_name":"Tom Matsuoka","bio":"Kibei male. Born August 1, 1903, in Sprecklesville, Maui, Hawaii. Taken to Japan in 1905 and raised by grandparents. Returned to the United States in 1919, joining father at Barneston sawmill in Washington. Married and farmed in Bellevue, Washington. Founded Bellevue Seinenkai and managed the Bellevue Vegetable Growers Association prior to World War II. Was picked up by the FBI on December 8, 1941, detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in Seattle, then interned at the Department of Justice camp at Fort Missoula, Montana. Was transferred to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and then to Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Was released to harvest sugar beets in Chinook, Montana, with his family as work crew. Established a farm in Chinook."},{"id":"85","model":"narrator","index":"17 842/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/85/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/85/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/stad.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/stad.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/85/interviews/"},"display_name":"Tad Sato","bio":"Nisei male. Born May 9, 1922, in Portland, Oregon. Moved to Seattle with father after parents divorced. Grew up in Seattle's Nihonmachi where father ran a secondhand store. Disinterested in college after seeing a lack of employment opportunities for graduating Japanese Americans. Went to work for Great Northern Railway, laying and maintaining tracks on the West Coast. At war's onset, Great Northern brought its Japanese workers together in a segregated gang outside the restricted zone, so he continued to work for the railroad, thus avoiding incarceration in a War Relocation Authority camp. While away, father was picked up by the FBI, and then sent to Kooskia internment camp, Idaho, where he was held throughout the war. Drafted into military service in 1945. Returned to Great Northern and was promoted through the ranks in the accounting department despite running into workplace discrimination."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1012-17-18","model":"segment","index":"18 843/{'value': 874, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1012-17-18/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1012-17-18/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-droger-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-droger-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Roger Daniels Interview Segment 18","description":"Thoughts on whether the World War II incarceration can happen again (audio only)
This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.
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