Education

Most of the Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans) who grew up on the West Coast lived in relatively small sections of the city and shared common experiences in the public schools as well as Japanese language schools. The World War II incarceration interrupted thousands of students' elementary, high school and university educations.

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doc Postcard to Molly Wilson from Sandie Saito (October 14, 1944) (ddr-janm-1-22)

Postcard to Molly Wilson from Sandie Saito (October 14, 1944). It is postmarked October 17, 1944 from Oberlin, Ohio.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-22/

img Children in class picture (ddr-densho-255-179)

Children posed for a class picture. Written on front: "3rd Left, Shige."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-179/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Mollie Wilson from Sadae (Lillian) Nishioka (August 9, 1943) (ddr-janm-1-96)

Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from Sadae (Lillian) Nishioka (August 9, 1943). Envelope is postmarked August 11, 1943 from the Poston (Colorado River) Incarceration Camp in Parker, Arizona.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-96/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Mollie Wilson from Mary Murakami (March 31, 1944) (ddr-janm-1-37)

Typed letter to Mollie Wilson from Mary Murakami (March 31, 1944). Envelope is postmarked April 1, 1944 from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-37/

doc Christmas card to Molly Wilson from June Yoshigai (c. 1945) (ddr-janm-1-93)

Christmas card to Molly Wilson from June Yoshigai (c. 1945) from De Kalb, Illinois. White/red card with illustration in blue/green/red of a snow covered church. "A Joyous Christmas" is on the front top of card.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-93/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Molly Wilson from Yuri Shimokochi (October 4, 1943) (ddr-janm-1-60)

Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from Yuri Shimokochi (October 4, 1943). Envelope is postmarked October 5, 1943 from Kansas City, Missouri.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-60/

img Japanese teachers on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-99)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "4 posed group photographs in which [Shidzuyo Yasui] appears they must have been taken at Sumoto School in Awaji." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the second row, third from the left.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-99/

img Japanese women on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-98)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "4 posed group photographs in which [Shidzuyo Yasui] appears they must have been taken at Sumoto School in Awaji." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-98/

img Japanese man in a school uniform (ddr-densho-259-182)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "I think that this was my Uncle Saburo Miyake, [Shidzuyo Miyake's] brother, because there is a similarity to the man in the preceding photograph Here he was much younger, and he was wearing a school uniform."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-182/

img Nikkei man in graduation cap and gown (ddr-densho-259-397)

Unidentified Nikkei man in a graduation cap and gown.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-397/

img Teachers at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-77)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Mom [Shidzuyo Yasui] - Last Row 2nd from Left. Sumoto, Awaji where she taught 1912." Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo] taught home economics there."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-77/

img "Japanese girls school beach outing" (ddr-densho-259-79)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese girls school beach outing, Sumoto School, Awaji, Japan." Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Beach at Sumoto Awaji where [Shidzuyo Yasui] taught. [Shidzuyo] 2nd row. 10th from the left."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-79/

img Teacher and students on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-126)

Shidzuyo Yasui (front row, second from left) with female students from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-126/

img Japanese teachers on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-125)

Shidzuyo Yasui (front row, center) with colleagues from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-125/

img Japanese class picture (ddr-densho-259-109)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another posed group picture of young Japanese women of which [Shidzuyo Yasui] is one. This may have been a class picture too, although in this case, there are a couple of young men standing in the top row." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the front row, second from the right.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-109/

img "The graduation exercise of the Americanization School sponsored by Japanese Ancestral Society" (ddr-densho-259-394)

Front of photograph: "The graduation exercise of the Americanization School sponsored by Japanese Ancestral Society Portland, Oreg. May 28, 1953." Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group portrait of the Issei in the Portland area who graduated from the Americanization school, in preparation for taking their citizenship examinations."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-394/

img Hood River Japanese Methodist Church Orchestra (ddr-densho-259-323)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Hood River Japanese Methodist Church orchestra. This was not the same organization as the band. Here LeRoy (?) Burns was the orchestra organizer, leader and instructor. I think that Rev. [Isaac] Inouye just lent moral support. Notice that on the bass drum...it reads, 'H.R.H.S.', and 'Japanese'...HRHS of course stood for Hood …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-323/

img Class at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-92)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another posed group photo of what I will guess was [Shidzuyo Yasui's] class in Home Economics. I don't know where in Japan this was taken, but it doesn't look like the Sumoto School grounds." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-92/

img School portrait of a boy in Japan (ddr-densho-259-58)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a schoolboy portrait of [Masuo Yasui] in Japan around [age] 14 or 15. He attended Kojokwan High School, which was located in Nishi (west) Ibara [He] didn't graduate from high school because he emigrated to the United States before then. At best, he may have been the equivalent of an …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-58/

img Teachers at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-90)

A group picture from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan. Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the top row, fourth from the right.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-90/

img Japanese teachers on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-124)

Shidzuyo Yasui (second row, second from right) with colleagues from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan. The bearded man in the back row is the school principal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-124/

img Japanese girls in class picture (ddr-densho-259-108)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui], front row, 2nd from right." Caption by Homer Yasui: "In this posed group picture or [sic] 19 young Japanese women of whom [Shidzuyo Yasui] is one, I suspect that this must have been a class picture. She doesn't look that much older than the rest of them."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-108/