165 items
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Letter from Issei man to wife (May 21, 1942) (ddr-densho-140-89)
Excerpt: "I recall to memory of Capital Hill often, special on decoration week. Did you asked someone to take care the grave as our proxy?"
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Postcard from Issei man to wife (May 7, 1942) (ddr-densho-140-82)
Excerpt: "How are you? This made full 5 months."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (February 11, 1943) (ddr-densho-140-156)
Excerpt: "I sent you the koishi koishi made flower basin to celebrate your birthday today."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (September 22, 1942) (ddr-densho-140-134)
Excerpt: "How are you since wrote me 11th? Am well and busy as usual."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (January 1, 1942) (ddr-densho-140-41)
Excerpt: "Happy New Year Dear - This is nice sunshine morning here. We listening radio news."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (May 28, 1942) (ddr-densho-140-96)
Excerpt: "Many thanks for your precious letter which you wrote on our commemoration day."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (March 1, 1943) (ddr-densho-140-164)
Excerpt: "I am leading a life of confinement here, but it is something over which we have no control."
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Cherry tree planting ceremony (ddr-densho-140-15)
A delegation from Japan plants cherry trees in Seattle's Seward Park. Front row (L to R): unidentified, unidentified, Genji Mihara, Consul Suemasa Okamoto, Premier R. Wakazuki, Mr. Tokusaburo Sowa.
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Memorandum Captain Gabraiele Locatelli and Mayor Genji Mihara on Geneva Convention and Alien Enemy Detainees (ddr-densho-379-245)
P.N. McLaughlin, Acting Supervisor of Alien Detentions, lists rules under the Geneva Convention that will be followed at Ft. Missoula for the Italian and Japanese detainees.
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Japanese Boy in U.S. Army, Mother Happy (February 17, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-631)
The Seattle Daily Times, February 17, 1942, p. 5
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Mihara Collection (ddr-densho-140)
The Mihara Collection features photographs of the Mihara family as well as the personal correspondence written by Genji Mihara to his wife during his World War II imprisonment in various detention camps. Mihara, a prominent Issei leader of the Japanese American community, was arrested immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and …
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Hiroshima politicians visit Seattle (ddr-densho-395-98)
Members of the Seattle Hiroshima Club and the Mayor of Seattle pose with a delegation from Hiroshima in front of a United Airlines Mainliner 300 aircraft. From left to right, as cited in the "Seattle Hiroshima Club 1901-2001" book: Manabu Taniguchi, Genji Mihara, William F. Devin (Mayor of Seattle), Shinzo Hamai (Mayor of Hiroshima), Hisato Fujii, …