Serving stateside with the Military Intelligence Service
This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
Encounters with racism: discrimination at railroad company
This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
Description of family hotel: housed transitional workers
This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
Visiting Minneapolis while serving at Fort Snelling
This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
Visiting Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, during the war
This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
A discriminatory encounter involving the ROTC in college
This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
Written testimony of Seiyei Wakukawa, born in Japan, immigrated to Hawaii at an early age. Incarcerated in Lordsburg internment camp, New Mexico. This testimony was presented at the CWRIC hearing in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, September 9, 1981, in the section titled "The Hawaiian Experience." Personal information excised by Densho.
Written testimony of Iwao Kosaka, born in Honolulu Hawaii. Spent most of childhood in Japan, incarcerated in Sand Island internment camp, Hawaii. This testimony was presented at the CWRIC hearing in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, September 9, 1981, in the section titled "The Hawaiian Experience." Personal information excised by Densho.
Written testimony of Matthew M. Masuoka of Portland, Oregon. Incarcerated in the North Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. This testimony was presented at the CWRIC hearing in Seattle, Washington, on Friday, September 11, 1981, in the section titled "Economic Losses." Personal information excised by Densho.
Photocopy of a declassified handwritten letter from Keizaburo Koyama to the Enemy Alien Control Unit of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Koyama asks that he be relocated to the camp where his family is currently being held. At the moment, Koyama is currently being held in Camp Livingston, Louisiana.
Selected article titles: "Japanese Youth in L.A. Held for Use of 'Pills': Jay Inc., Releases November-December Delinquency Report" (p. 1), "Washington Newsletter: United States-Japan Relations" (p. 1), and "Night Before Chuman Appeared at State Assembly Rules Comm. Hearing to Object to Lechner Resolutions, He Was Nervous..." (p. 2).
Selected article titles: "Reagan Wants Jpn. For State Use" (p. 1), "Washington Newsletter: Anti-Japanese American Acts (It Can Happen Here, Again)" (p. 2), "'Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida': Hollywood Film Production Starts on Saga of Nisei Strandee in Japan" (p. 3), and "Book Review: Manzanar in Retrospect" (p. 5).
Selected article titles: "Japan's New Prime Minister Stresses Self-Defense Needs" (p. 1), "Harassment of Washington State's Asian Refugees on Rise" (pp. 1, 4), "Japanese Nationals in N.Y. Prefer to Keep to Themselves" (pp. 2, 4), and "From the Frying Pan: Probing the Issue of U.S.-Japan Relations" (p. 5).
Pamphlet from the Lincoln Museum in Washington, D.C. An item from: pages 116-117 of the Sue Kato scrapbook (gfb_skc_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2019_002_001_073_03
Preparations are being made for a parade to be held in Washington, D.C., on July 15, 1946 by the 442nd Combat Team (Japanese-American troops), temporarily stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. 7-6-46. Pfc. Roy Fujihara of 1581 Kauluwela Lane, Honolulu, relaxes in his barracks after a hard drill.
This is the interior of Fire Station Number 1. Left to right: (first name unknown) Hikida, unidentified, Yoshio Akada, and Mr. Sano. The fire station was one of the few buildings with a refrigerator. Mr. Sano owned the bathhouse underneath the Panama Hotel in Seattle, Washington, before World War II.
Section titles: "Winter Arrives"; "Fryer in Washington"; "Railroads Recruiting Evacuees in Montana"; "Office Hours Changed"; "Arizona Closed to Cotton Picking"; "Receiving Warehouses Opened"; "2000 News Stories Briefed'; "WRA to Handle Repatriation"; "Industrial Policy Supplemented"; "Information Service at Central Utah"; "Public Relations Improve in Idaho"; "News From the Projects"; "Project Reports."
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] and unidentified Nisei girl. I don't know who this woman is, but it seems to me that it was taken when Ches went to Wapato, [Washington], to participate in a baseball game. In any case, Ches is clowning around, which he frequently did."
This letter from the Japanese American Citizens League encourages Washington state voters to vote "yes" for Senate Joint Resolution No. 21, which would abolish restrictions on land ownership. It details the reasons a similar resolution did not pass two years ago and encourages readers to spread the word about SJR 21.
Written on album page below photograph: "Henry Yamada, Shizuo, & Myself. Columbia River Highway, 1931". However, the picture was actually taken on the steps of Suzzallo Library on the University of Washington campus. Labeled identifications may be incorrect. Pictured on right is Isamu Ito and next to him (left) is George Tokuda.
Black and white photographic negative of three unidentified women outside Collin's Field House in Seattle, Washington for a Buddhist convention. George Oba is coming up from behind the women. Woman on the far right is holding a program with the date Feb 29- Mar 2, 1952 written on the cover.
Caption on reverse: "The Queen of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington: Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of Colonel Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Roosevelt, chosen to preside at the Annual Festival of the Japanese Cherry Trees in the capital. Harris & Ewing from Times World Wide Photos.)"