(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":"00:13:03","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-15","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":721,"namepart":"Nikki Bridges"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"December 11, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Nikki Bridges narrator","download_large":"denshovh-bnikki-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-7-8","model":"entity","index":"6 1506/{'value': 1552, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-7-8/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-7-8/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-7/ddr-densho-7-8-mezzanine-08de9a6742-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-7/ddr-densho-7-8-mezzanine-08de9a6742-a.jpg"},"title":"WRA resettlement image","description":"Original WRA caption: Every man likes to put on his slippers, light up his favorite pipe, and read the evening paper before the fireplace. Mr. George Isoda is no exception. After a hard day's work as a Milwaukee auto mechanic, Mr. Isoda likes to relax in the large living room of the home which he shares with his brother-in-law, Mr. Masumi Kaneko, who is a printing compositor. The Kanekos and the Isodas have lived in Milwaukee almost one year. The Isodas came from Los Angeles via the Granada Relocation Center while the Kanekos are Seattle, Washington people from the Hunt Relocation Center. Beginning in summer 1942, the War Relocation Authority (WRA) began to release incarcerees and encouraged them to resettle in areas of the United States other than the West Coast.","extent":"2619W x 2005H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-7-8","topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Leaving camp -- \"Resettlement\"","id":"104"}],"format":"img","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Isoda, George"},{"namepart":"Kaneko, Masumi"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"pcc","genre":"photograph","location":"Milwaukee, Wisconsin","creation":"1944","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Isoda, George \nKaneko, Masumi","download_large":"ddr-densho-7-8-mezzanine-08de9a6742-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-47-51","model":"entity","index":"7 1507/{'value': 1552, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-51/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-47-51/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-47/ddr-csujad-47-51-mezzanine-87f078ab0c-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-47/ddr-csujad-47-51-mezzanine-87f078ab0c-a.jpg"},"title":"Photograph of the lathe house for the guayule experiments with snow on the ground","description":"Exterior view of the lathe house for the guayule rubber experiments under the direction of Walter T. 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Arthur’s wife Edith later retyped his diary; this typewritten copy is today cared for by the Twin Falls Public Library in the Idaho Room archives.","extent":"8.5W x 11H; 610 pages","links_children":"ddr-fom-2-1","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Kleinkopf, Arthur"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps","id":"65"},{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Education","id":"73"},{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Impact of incarceration","id":"78"},{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Social relations","id":"536"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Kleinkopf, Arthur"}],"contributor":"Friends of Minidoka","rights":"cc","genre":"diary","location":"Hunt, Idaho","facility":[{"term":"Minidoka","id":"8"}],"creation":"September 26, 1942 - February 9, 1946","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Kleinkopf, Arthur author Kleinkopf, Arthur","download_large":"ddr-fom-2-1-mezzanine-6d0b349d20-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-18-5","model":"entity","index":"14 1514/{'value': 1552, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-18-5/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-18-5/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-18/ddr-csujad-18-5-mezzanine-c52e1f3786-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-18/ddr-csujad-18-5-mezzanine-c52e1f3786-a.jpg"},"title":"College summer service in a relocation center","description":"Call for college students to meet a \"desperate need\" by serving as group work leaders supporting community activities, arts and recreation, church vacation Bible schools, and boys and girls clubs in either the Gila River or Manzanar Incarceration Camp; flier states that such service would provide the students with the opportunity to \"serve significantly in these tragic days\"; \"come to know these Americans of Japanese descent -- our 'war victims' -- as persons\" and to \"think and work constructively on the number one question of America and her minorities.\" Flier mentions supervision by graduate counselors, with \"continuous sympathetic help\" from War Relocation Authority staff, and the possibility that similar projects may arise in the Topaz, Utah and Poston, Arizona \"Relocation Centers.\" See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: RSG_06-01_01","extent":"1 page, typescript","links_children":"ddr-csujad-18-5","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"[Reith, Marian B.?]"},{"role":"author","namepart":"[Maguire, Bruce B.?]"}],"topics":[{"term":"Activism and involvement","id":"120"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- Arizona","id":"480"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California","id":"271"},{"term":"Community activities -- Associations and organizations","id":"16"},{"term":"Community activities -- Associations and organizations -- Community and social service associations","id":"21"},{"term":"Education","id":"31"},{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Arts and literature","id":"172"},{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Education","id":"73"},{"term":"World War II -- Support from the non-Japanese American community","id":"80"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"California State University, Northridge. 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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. 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