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Dr. Shumei Okawa, who is a civilian accessory of the 5.15 Incident, President of [?] (51), was judged [?] of Chief Justice Shimizu as an accessory to the Navy on December 24th last year. He was referred to [?] and received a penalty of five years' imprisonment ([?]), but his punishment was postponed to treat an illness. However, he recovered completely and he left for prison with attorneys Utsuonomiya and Ohara on the 16th at 10 a.m. He was arrested the same day and time four years ago, on a train going to Tohoku, where he was to give a lecture. He appeared at the district of Prosecutor [?], led by Prosecutor Tanamichi. First he will go to Ichigaya prison at 11 a.m., and after a couple of days he will be moved to Toyotama prison. 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He assumes that they do not have enough coal in larger cities, such as Chicago and Los Angeles, but they would be restored soon. He encloses photographs that he has taken during his visit in Hiroshima. The photographs are not found in the item. 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She grew up in Gardena as the daughter of pioneer physician Kikuwo Tashiro. She remembers Gardena as it changed from a rural to suburban community. During World War II, her family moved to Fresno to avoid incarceration but was eventually imprisoned at the concentration camp at Poston concentration camp, Arizona. After leaving camp, Kaji endured primitive conditions at a Colorado sugar beet farm and moved to Denver. After the war, her family resettled in Boyle Heights where she married Bruce Kaji and moved back to Gardena. She and her husband became involved in civic activities, including the sister city programs. 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After his government career, Frank served as president of the Japanese American Citizens League and worked as an activist during the redress movement.","extent":"1:57:23","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-445","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":894,"namepart":"Frank Saburo Sato"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0060c7z","namepart":"Sato, Frank Saburo"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"August 14, 2017","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Frank Saburo Sato narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Sato, Frank Saburo 88922nr0060c7z","download_large":"ddr-densho-1000-445-1-mezzanine-718a8a1153-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-273","model":"entity","index":"6 1131/{'value': 1642, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-273/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-273/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-smarjorie-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-smarjorie-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Marjorie Matsushita Sperling Interview","description":"Nisei female. 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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":"01:58:51","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-273","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":453,"namepart":"Marjorie Matsushita Sperling"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0090d9r","namepart":"Matsushita, Marjorie Maruji"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Culver City, California","creation":"February 24, 2010","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Marjorie Matsushita Sperling narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Matsushita, Marjorie Maruji 88922nr0090d9r","download_large":"denshovh-smarjorie-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-446","model":"entity","index":"7 1132/{'value': 1642, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-446/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-446/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-446-1-mezzanine-0ae58ca4fb-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-446-1-mezzanine-0ae58ca4fb-a.jpg"},"title":"Frank Saburo Sato Interview II","description":"Nisei male. Born March 16, 1929, in Puyallup, Washington. Grew up in the Sumner, Washington, area, where parents had a produce business. During World War II, removed with family to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After the war, attended the University of Washington and the University of Southern California. Established a career in government. From 1953 to 1965, he worked for the U.S. Air Force Auditor General's Office. From 1965 to 1974, he was with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). From 1974 to 1979, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Audit. Became Inspector General at the Department of Transportation and was appointed Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency by President Ronald Reagan. After his government career, Frank served as president of the Japanese American Citizens League and worked as an activist during the redress movement.","extent":"2:31:18","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-446","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":894,"namepart":"Frank Saburo Sato"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0060c7z","namepart":"Sato, Frank Saburo"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Seattle, Washington","creation":"September 8, 2017","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Frank Saburo Sato narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Sato, Frank Saburo 88922nr0060c7z","download_large":"ddr-densho-1000-446-1-mezzanine-0ae58ca4fb-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-348","model":"entity","index":"8 1133/{'value': 1642, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-348/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-348/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-oatsumi-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-oatsumi-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Atsumi Ozawa Interview","description":"Nisei female. Born May 25, 1928, in Huancayo, Peru. Grew up in Huancayo, where father ran a successful store. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father went into hiding in an attempt to avoid being picked up by the Peruvian government. He was eventually found and picked up, and was reunited with family on the ship from Peru to the United States in 1944. Atsumi Ozawa was incarcerated with her family in the Crystal City internment camp, Texas. After leaving camp, worked for a time in Seabrook, New Jersey, and eventually moved to Chicago, Illinois.
(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":"01:34:43","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-348","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":585,"namepart":"Atsumi Ozawa"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Skokie, Illinois","creation":"June 17, 2011","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Atsumi Ozawa narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer","download_large":"denshovh-oatsumi-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-428","model":"entity","index":"9 1134/{'value': 1642, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-428/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-428/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-yken-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-yken-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Ken Yoshida Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born July 31, 1923, in Tacoma, Washington. Lived in Tacoma for a few years before moving with family to Redwood City, California, where family ran a flower nursery. During World War II, removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz (Central Utah) concentration camp, Utah. While in Topaz, refused to obey the draft order and was imprisoned in a county jail and then a road camp in Utah.
(This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. 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":"00:54:43","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-428","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":824,"namepart":"Ken Yoshida"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr004vs0b","namepart":"Yoshida, Kenichiro"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"October 17, 2007","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Ken Yoshida narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer Yoshida, Kenichiro 88922nr004vs0b","download_large":"denshovh-yken-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-187","model":"entity","index":"10 1135/{'value': 1642, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-187/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-187/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ygeorge_2-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-ygeorge_2-01-a.jpg"},"title":"George Yamada Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born November 16, 1923, in Spokane, Washington. Spent childhood in downtown Spokane where parents ran the World Hotel. Father also worked as a mail handler for the Great Northern Railroad. Attended Lewis and Clark High School and Washington State University. During the war remembers seeing train cars pass through Spokane with Japanese Americans headed to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Drafted into the army in 1944 and served at the Military Intelligence Service Language School in Fort Snelling, Minnesota and Presidio, California. After World War II, worked as a chick sexer in upstate New York and surrounding region for thirty years. Returned to Spokane in the mid-1970s and pursued a career in real estate.
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(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 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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":"03:03:26","links_children":"ddr-densho-1000-275","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":455,"namepart":"Fred Y. Hoshiyama"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Tom Ikeda"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Dana Hoshide"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0126h22","namepart":"Hoshiyama, Fred Yachio"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Culver City, California","creation":"February 25, 2010","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Fred Y. Hoshiyama narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer Hoshiyama, Fred Yachio 88922nr0126h22","download_large":"denshovh-hfred_2-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-62","model":"entity","index":"24 1149/{'value': 1642, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-62/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-62/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mtomio-04-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-mtomio-04-a.jpg"},"title":"Tomio Moriguchi Interview IV","description":"Ni-ten-gosei (Nisei/Sansei) male. Born April 16, 1936, in Tacoma, Washington. During World War II, was incarcerated with his family at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After the war, resettled in Seattle's Nihonmachi, where his father reestablished the family business, Uwajimaya, selling Japanese foodstuff and other items. Worked at Uwajimaya throughout his childhood -- along with his seven brothers and sisters -- prior to and while attending Bailey Gatzert Elementary, Garfield High School, and the University of Washington. Worked at the Boeing Company before leaving to help run Uwajimaya, becoming CEO and President of Uwajimaya in 1965. In addition, served and held leadership positions in more than 40 civic, social, and professional organizations, and has received numerous honors and awards from both the Nikkei community, and the non-Nikkei mainstream. At the time of this interview, Uwajimaya was the largest food-related Japanese American owned business in the Pacific Northwest, remaining largely a \"family business.\"
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