(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":"00:14:50","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-7","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":134,"namepart":"Dale Minami"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"February 18, 1984","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Dale Minami narrator","download_large":"denshovh-mdale-03-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1012-6","model":"entity","index":"9 484/{'value': 495, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1012-6/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1012-6/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-mdale-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1012/denshovh-mdale-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Dale Minami Interview I","description":"Sansei male. Born in Los Angeles, California on October 13, 1946, and grew up in Gardena, California. Received B.A. in Political Science from University of Southern California, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. Received J.D., 1971, from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California. Mr. Minami was a co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus, Inc., a co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the Asian Pacific Bar of California and the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans. He was involved in significant litigation affecting civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities, including Korematsu v. United States, a lawsuit to overturn a 40 year old conviction for refusal to obey exclusion orders aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII, originally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in landmark decisions; United Pilipinos for Affirmative Action v. California Blue Shield, the first class action employment lawsuit brought by Asian Pacific Americans on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans; Spokane JACL v. Washington State University, a class action on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans to establish an Asian American Studies program at Washington State University; and Nakanishi v. UCLA, a claim for unfair denial of tenure which resulted in the granting of tenure after widespread publicity over discrimination in academia. Mr. Minami represents Kristi Yamaguchi, the 1992 Olympic Gold Medal skater, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, actor Lane Nishikawa, and others in the fields of media and entertainment. He is counsel to the National Asian American Telecommunications Association and the Asian American Journalists' Association. Mr. Minami has taught at University of California, Berkeley and Mills College in Oakland, CA and has been a Commissioner of the State of California's Fair Employment and Housing Commission, a Commissioner on the State Bar of California, Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, the Chair of the Attorney General's Asian/Pacific Advisory Committee and a Member of Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Screening Committee. He was Chair of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Commission, appointed by President Clinton in 1994. Mr. Minami has received numerous awards including the State Bar President's Pro bono Service Award, an honorary Juris Doctor degree from the McGeorge School of Law, designation of a dormitory at the University of California at Santa Cruz as the \"Queen Liliuokalani-Minami\" Dormitory, awards from the Coro Foundation, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, the Harry Dow Memorial Fellowship in Boston, the Fred Korematsu Civil Rights Fund Award, the Organization of Chinese Americans, the Japanese American Youth Center and the Centro Legale de la Raza. Mr. Minami is a partner with Minami, Lew and Tamaki in San Francisco, and specializes in personal injury and entertainment law.
(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":"00:10:42","links_children":"ddr-densho-1012-6","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":134,"namepart":"Dale Minami"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Steven Okazaki","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"October 4, 1983","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Dale Minami narrator","download_large":"denshovh-mdale-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-57-39","model":"entity","index":"10 485/{'value': 495, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-57-39/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-57-39/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-57/ddr-csujad-57-39-mezzanine-06f1356694-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-57/ddr-csujad-57-39-mezzanine-06f1356694-a.jpg"},"title":"Old people of Whittier, California","description":"Elderly founders of Whittier (Calif.) pose in three rows, seated and standing, before a structure. [Printed on paper attached to photo and matboard] The Old People of Whittier, California, December 12, 1895. [Followed by lists of names with birth dates and birthplaces, organized rear, middle, front. Transcription of names only:] REAR COLUMN Joel Hiatt ; Samuel D. Coffin ; Asa Nerdyke ; Jonathan Bailey ; Willett Dorland ; Washington Hadley ; Henry Dorland ; Caleb Baldwin ; Neele Davis ; Peter Crook ; Rev. Chas. Leach ; Rev. Thomas Armstrong. MIDDLE COLUMN Solomon Cook ; Mary A. Coffin ; Mary Willits ; Mrs. L. A. Woodward ; Rebecca Hunt ; Naomi Hadley ; Mrs. H. N. Hill ; Mary Hodson ; Sarah Burdg ; Mrs. A. M. Dunsmoor ; Mrs. E. Owens ; Margaret Robinson. FRONT COLUMN Joseph C. Coombs ; Albert Sharpless ; Charity Jessup ; Mary Lindley ; Louisa Frazier ; Evaline C. Kellog ; Leah See Whitely ; Samuel Owens ; G. J. Bennik. Title from attached paper. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: FFC-0038","extent":"Electronic copy only;","links_children":"ddr-csujad-57-39","topics":[{"term":"Religion and churches -- Christianity","id":"396"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California","id":"271"}],"format":"img","contributor":"Whittier Public Library","rights":"nocc","genre":"photograph","location":"Whittier, California","creation":"1895-12-12","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-csujad-57-39-mezzanine-06f1356694-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1008-1","model":"entity","index":"11 486/{'value': 495, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1008-1/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1008-1/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1008/denshovh-kgeorge-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1008/denshovh-kgeorge-01-a.jpg"},"title":"George Koshi Interview","description":"Kibei male. Born June 16, 1911, in Greeley, Colorado. Raised in Denver, Colorado, until the age of five. Sent to Japan for schooling in 1917 and returned to the U.S. at the age of seventeen. Continued his education to eventually become the first Nikkei attorney in the state of Colorado. Drafted into the U.S. Army in March, 1942, and became a member of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS); served as an instructor of Japanese language in the MIS Language School and then as a language specialist in Washington, D.C., and the Pacific Military Intelligence Research Section (PACMIRS) in Maryland. Was hired as a civilian by the U.S. government postwar to provide legal counsel to defendants in the war crimes trials in Japan, and later, supervise Japanese legal and judicial reform. Received a medal commendation from the Japanese government for work in connection with the reformation of Japan's judicial system.
(Members of the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) arranged for and conducted this interview in conjunction with Densho.)","extent":"01:45:27","links_children":"ddr-densho-1008-1","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":45,"namepart":"George Koshi"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Marvin Uratsu"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Matt Emery"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"National Japanese American Historical Society Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"December 10, 1997","status":"completed","search_hidden":"George Koshi narrator \nMarvin Uratsu interviewer \nMatt Emery videographer","download_large":"denshovh-kgeorge-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"135","model":"narrator","index":"12 487/{'value': 495, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/135/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/135/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/sroger.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/sroger.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/135/interviews/"},"display_name":"Roger Shimomura","bio":"Roger Shimomura's paintings, prints, and theater pieces address sociopolitical issues of Asian America. The inspiration for many of his works are the diaries kept by his late immigrant grandmother for fifty-six years. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, and his graduate degree from Syracuse University, New York. Shimomura has had more than 100 solo exhibitions of his paintings and prints, and has presented his experimental theater pieces at such venues as the Franklin Furnace, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. He is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in painting and performance art, a McKnight Fellowship, and a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Fellowship. He was the first artist to be awarded an international Japan Foundation Grant, as well as the first in the state to receive the Kansas Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Painting. In fall 1990, Shimomura was appointed the Dayton Hudson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Shimomura has lectured on his work at more than 160 universities and art museums across the United States. In 1994 he was designated a University Distinguished Professor on the University of Kansas faculty, the first so honored in the history of the School of Fine Arts at that campus. In 1998, he received the Higuchi Research Prize, the highest annual honor bestowed on a Kansas University faculty member in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1999, the Seattle Urban League named a scholarship for him that is awarded annually to a Seattle resident pursuing a career in art. The College Art Association presented him with the Artist Award for Most Distinguished Body of Work for 2001, in recognition of his four-year, twelve-museum national tour of the painting exhibition An American Diary. Shimomura's personal papers are being collected by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. He is represented by Jeffrey Hoffeld & Company, Inc., New York; Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago; Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City; Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami; and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle."},{"id":"ddr-pc-39-52","model":"entity","index":"13 488/{'value': 495, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-39-52/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-39-52/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-39/ddr-pc-39-52-mezzanine-377d683000-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-39/ddr-pc-39-52-mezzanine-377d683000-a.jpg"},"title":"Pacific Citizen, Vol. 65, No. 25 (December 22-29, 1967)","description":"Selected article titles: \"Supreme Court and the Nisei: 'Equal Justice Under Law' nearer reality for Japanese Americans\" (p. 1), \"Individual choice in marriage not a concern for State\" (p. 1), \"Is Warren's legal philosophy of today a consequence of Evacuation?\" (p. 1), \"Takao Ozawa Case imbeds Issei to 'ineligible for citizenship' predicament\" (p. 1), \"'The Bill of Rights and the Military': Warren\" (p. 1), \"The Korematsu Case: ACLU's brief and the Supreme Court's decisions\" (p. 3), \"Evacuation ruled constitutional 6 to 3\" (p. 3), \"ACLU Brief: The Korematsu Case\" (p. 8), \"Terrace vs. Thompson: Common law prevails in early Washington alien land issue\" (p. 17), \"Gakuen era far from over--Hawaii once sought its demise\" (p. 23), \"The JACL Story: For Better Americans in a Greater America\" (p. 33), \"National Constitution Japanese American Citizens League\" (p. 53).\r\n\r\nThe holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and chapters that included personal addresses and phone numbers to better foster communications between Japanese American communities. 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The inspiration for many of his works are the diaries kept by his late immigrant grandmother for fifty-six years. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, and his graduate degree from Syracuse University, New York.
Shimomura has had more than 100 solo exhibitions of his paintings and prints, and has presented his experimental theater pieces at such venues as the Franklin Furnace, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. He is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in painting and performance art, a McKnight Fellowship, and a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Fellowship. He was the first artist to be awarded an international Japan Foundation Grant, as well as the first in the state to receive the Kansas Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Painting. In fall 1990, Shimomura was appointed the Dayton Hudson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Shimomura has lectured on his work at more than 160 universities and art museums across the United States. In 1994 he was designated a University Distinguished Professor on the University of Kansas faculty, the first so honored in the history of the School of Fine Arts at that campus. In 1998, he received the Higuchi Research Prize, the highest annual honor bestowed on a Kansas University faculty member in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1999, the Seattle Urban League named a scholarship for him that is awarded annually to a Seattle resident pursuing a career in art. The College Art Association presented him with the Artist Award for Most Distinguished Body of Work for 2001, in recognition of his four-year, twelve-museum national tour of the painting exhibition An American Diary.Shimomura's personal papers are being collected by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 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In 1907, Furuya organized the Japanese Commercial Bank, then later purchased the Oriental American Bank in 1914 and the Seattle Specie Bank in 1923. He consolidated all three banks into the Pacific Commercial Bank. Unfortunately, with the Great Depression, Furuya went bankrupt on October 23, 1931. He moved to Los Angeles and eventually returned permanently to Yokohama, Japan. 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Chapter headings include: After high school- What next?; Possibilities after graduation; What are my goals?; and Will I attend college? Ch. 1: Lily describes an excitement for graduation and a tendency to overplan and overthink her future: In a perfect world, she had hoped to go to college after majoring in music in high school. Her ultimate goal was to become a professional violinist but she describes a need for more than talent to accomplish this goal. Practical advice: it's difficult and competitive and it is hard to make a living as a musician so she will explore teaching music as an alternative. Ch. 2: After graduating from Manzanar High, Lily had hoped to still go to college. On the advice of her father, instead, she is enrolled in a post-graduate music course and will bolster her skills in typing, psychology, etc., at the junior college in preparation for college rather than face poor conditions and racism outside of camp. She also considered applying to the open library position in Manzanar to gain more knowledge and experience. Ch. 3: Lists what is needed to be considered when making goals. Lily wishes to be well-rounded and to catch up on popular books and magazines so she can be a social success. She believes it necessary to earn the respect of others and to understand others well. Ch. 4: Lily had hoped to attend UCLA or USC to study music education. Now, she has been looking at other schools around the country, including Washington State. She then includes a run-down of what is offered at WSU and what has enticed her to apply there. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9006. 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Born May 25, 1932, in Seattle, Washington. Father employed by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as interpreter for twenty years, until separated from family on December 7, 1941 and interned as an enemy alien. Removed from Seattle with mother, sister and two brothers in 1942. Attended school (fifth through sixth grades) while incarcerated at Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, and U.S. Department of Justice internment camp at Crystal City, TX. Reunited with father, Jack Kaichiro Yasutake, who was transferred from the U.S. Department of Justice internment camp in Lordsburg, NM to Crystal City, TX camp in 1944. After release from Crystal City camp, moved with parents to Cincinnati, OH. Moved with parents to Chicago, Illinois where father served as Executive Director of the Chicago Resettlers Committee. After high school graduation, attended Lawrence College in Wisconsin. Graduated from University of Illinois. Commissioned as lieutenant, U.S. Army, 1954, assigned to artillery and served in Germany. Returned to U.S. in 1956, discharged from the army. Married, had three sons. Late wife died in 1984. Was remarried in 1988 and has one stepdaughter. Received M.A., New York University. Moved to Ohio, employed by U.S. Air Force as psychologist. Received Ph.D. in Industrial Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus OH. Moved to Denver, CO. Retired in 1986 from the U.S. Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. Moved to California, employed by Lockheed. Serves in a volunteer capacity with community organizations, including as president of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, and speaks at schools to educate students about the experiences of Japanese Americans and loss of constitutional rights during World War II. Also serves as chair of the San Jose Japantown Preservation Committee.(Joseph Yasutake was interviewed together with his sister Mitsuye (Yasutake) Yamada and surviving brother, William Toshio Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. He was also interviewed individually on October 9, 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":"01:20:38","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-136","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":130,"namepart":"Joe Yasutake"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Alice Ito"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"John Pai"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"October 9, 2002","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Joe Yasutake narrator \nAlice Ito interviewer \nJohn Pai videographer","download_large":"denshovh-yjoe-01-a.jpg"}],"query":{"query":{"query_string":{"query":"Washington state","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"]}}