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127 items
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-311-2)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-311-5)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-311-6)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-311-27)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-311-27)
Returning to the U.S. and finding work
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-311-9)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-311-9)
Attending school in Japan, being teased for being American
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-311-25)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-311-8)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-311-8)
Getting sick in Japan, remaining with mother while father returned to Oregon
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-311-16)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-311-16)
The pressures felt by kamikaze pilots
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-311-4)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-311-4)
Attending school, being called a "Jap"
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 29 (ddr-densho-1000-311-29)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 29 (ddr-densho-1000-311-29)
Talking to family about experiences in Japan during the war
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-311-20)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-311-20)
Being released from the military, observing war-torn Japan
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-311-24)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-311-19)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-311-19)
The fear in Japan of an American invasion
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-311-28)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-311-28)
Meeting future wife and getting married
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-311-11)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-311-11)
Being watched by the Japanese government after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-311-26)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-311-7)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
![Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-311-17)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3c/1d/3c1da6d92b7e4911872f7b52617b915f.jpg)
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Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-311-17)
Being held back from combat to serve as a translator
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Narrator Jimmie S. Matsuda
Nisei male. Born June 16, 1927, in Hood River, Oregon. Grew up in Hood River, where parents ran a farm. At the age of thirteen, went to Japan with family for a vacation and ended up staying there. Attended school in Japan and then was trained in the Japanese air force as a kamikaze pilot. Instead …
![Obon Festival- Dancers (ddr-one-1-250)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ba/25/ba25f8530cb32b5a015d9d4cb87f145d.jpg)
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Obon Festival- Dancers (ddr-one-1-250)
Black and white photographic negative of Obon dancers performing in front of a crowd. From left to right in foreground: Ruth Saito, Kathleen "Kathie" Haruko (Matsuda) Sato, and Grace (Tachibana) Ishikawa. Obon is an annual event hosted by the Oregon Buddhist Church (now known as Oregon Buddhist Temple) and attended by the wider Nikkei community..
![Special meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, June 21, 1938 (ddr-csujad-44-109)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/4b/80/4b807b8ecdf9003c85e9b2b6e1ac7c25.jpg)
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Special meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, June 21, 1938 (ddr-csujad-44-109)
Meeting minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Includes discussion of the Chiyoko Matsuda recital, Fourth of July activities, and Feast of Lanterns boat parade. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0108
![Six-year-old Reiko Mastuda, convalescing from serious illness at Jerome incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-14-16)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/24/5a/245a90bdb6f0ae57a92be9111c22eb98.jpg)
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Six-year-old Reiko Mastuda, convalescing from serious illness at Jerome incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-14-16)
Six-year-old Reiko Matsuda, convalescing from serious illness at Jerome incarceration camp, is looked after by nurse's aid Chiyo Okata. March 11, 1943. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_016
![Nisei radio operator (ddr-densho-114-100)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/db/5d/db5d39ded5cec03eeb569e6ea1d74263.jpg)
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Nisei radio operator (ddr-densho-114-100)
Original caption: Japanese Americans in Army Train to Avenge Pearl Harbor; 100th Infantry Battalion officers and some of the enlisted men are of Japanese ancestry. American citizens, born in the Hawaiian Islands of unquestioned loyalty and patriotism. Formerly part of the Hawaiian National Guard: Sgt. Robert Oda, radio operator, takes a message for transmittal from Sgt. …