Industry and employment

At the turn of the century, Japanese immigrants (Issei) came to the United States to work on the rapidly expanding plantations of Hawaii and the farms, lumber mills, railroads and canneries of the Pacific Coast. They quickly realized this type of work was not going to bring them wealth, and many began looking for more promising opportunities. Farming, fishing and small businesses were often seen as the answer.

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img Mr. Murata of bank Keeping "Eye" on Kanj!! (ddr-jamsj-1-22)

Landscapers working in front of the Sumitomo Bank of California.

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

img Fred Sugimoto 1964, San Jose Landscape Gardeners' Association (ddr-jamsj-1-228)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-228/

img Men taking a break (ddr-jamsj-1-611)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-611/

img Fred Sugimoto 1964, San Jose Landscape Gardeners' Association (ddr-jamsj-1-229)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-229/

img Fumio Sawing & Herman "Painting" (ddr-jamsj-1-21)

Landscapers working in front of the Sumitomo Bank of California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-21/

img John Kurazawa 1961 (ddr-jamsj-1-223)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-223/

img Men moving dirt (ddr-jamsj-1-607)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-607/

img Precision! (ddr-jamsj-1-361)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-361/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Molly Wilson from Mary Murakami (December 13, 1944) (ddr-janm-1-38)

Typed letter to Mollie Wilson from Mary Murakami (December 13, 1944). Envelope is postmarked December 14, 1944 from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-38/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Mollie Wilson from Mary Murakami (February 11, 1945) (ddr-janm-1-43)

Handwritten letter to Mollie Wilson from Mary Murakami (February 11, 1945). Envelope is postmarked February 11, 1945 from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-43/

img "Utah...Sanitarium" (ddr-densho-255-172)

Front of building with automobiles parked outside. Sign on building reads "Utah [illegible] Sanitarium."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-172/

img Group shot of the workers (ddr-jamsj-1-613)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-613/

img Prepping the pipes (ddr-jamsj-1-612)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-612/

img Landscaping (ddr-jamsj-1-227)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-227/

img Henry Morita, First President Garden City Gardeners' Club 1949-1950 (ddr-jamsj-1-206)

Outside Home. President of Club 1949-1950

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-206/

img Portrait (ddr-jamsj-1-279)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-279/

img George Kikuchi (ddr-jamsj-1-60)

Working on a landscape project

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

doc Letter (with envelope) to Mollie Wilson from Violet Saito (January 3, 1945) (ddr-janm-1-79)

Handwritten letter to Mollie Wilson from Violet Saito (January 3, 1945). Envelope is postmarked January 4, 1945 from Chicago, Illinois.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-79/

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/

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 Issei newspaper editor in his office (ddr-densho-259-235)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Toyoji Abe This might have been Abe's office from which he ran the Japanese newspaper, the Oshu Shimpo. Abe was a highly influential man in the Portland and the Oregon Japanese communities."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-235/

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 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 doctor's clinic (ddr-densho-259-493)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This portrait appears to have been a Japanese doctors' clinic in Japan It shows five Japanese women dressed in white uniforms so they must have been nurses in the clinic. Whom I presume to have been the owner-doctor is dressed in a morning coat and striped pants, and is even wearing dove-gray …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-493/

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/