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img Tule Lake pilgrimage (ddr-densho-11-1)

Jimi Yamaichi (right) pointing out something to Stan Shikuma at the former site of the Tule Lake concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-11-1/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-106)

Nisei male. Born October 27, 1922. Grew up in San Jose, California, where his father had a farming operation. Incarcerated in the Pomona Assembly Center, Heart Mountain concentration camp and Tule Lake Segregation Center. Worked on an engineering crew on the Shoshone Dam, and later was a carpentry foreman in Tule Lake. Was in Tule during …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-312)

Nisei male born in October 27, 1922. Grew up in San Jose, California where his father had a farming operation. Incarcerated in Pomona Assembly Center, Heart Mountain concentration camp and Tule Lake Segregation Center. Worked on an engineering crew on the Shoshone Dam, and later was a carpentry foreman in Tule Lake. Was in Tule during …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-312/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-106-2)

Description of the family farm in San Jose, California, "[W]e worked three days for $10..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-2/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-106-7)

Making Japanese shoes for kids while in an assembly center

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-7/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-106-14)

Memories of martial law in Tule Lake, food scarcity, riots, Hoshidan group grows in strength

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-14/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-106-16)

"Exonerated" of all charges by a judge in Eureka, California for lack of due process

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-16/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-106-1)

Family's arrival in the U.S., early jobs as fruit picker, houseboy

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-1/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-106-12)

Atmosphere in Tule Lake "segregation center," "We didn't mix too well"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-12/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-106-9)

Running into German POWs in Grand Junction, Colorado while on work crew

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-9/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-106-3)

Events following Pearl Harbor: a Caucasian friend's tearful warning, and opportunistic farmers look to cash in on the mass removal

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-3/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-106-11)

Jobs in Tule Lake, working on the construction crew

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-11/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-106-8)

Working on the Shoshone Dam while in Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-8/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-106-10)

Voluntarily transferring to Tule Lake "segregation center," California, "The family's got to stay together, and we are going to Tule Lake"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-10/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-106-5)

Returning to California after incarceration, salvaging equipment for the family farm

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-5/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-106-4)

A friend's offer to care for the farm while family is incarcerated

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-4/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-106-13)

Working on the construction crew in Tule Lake

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-13/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-106-15)

Making the decision to resist the draft, "I can't vote, I can't register, and they want me to join the army"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-15/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-106-17)

Persistence pays off, finally allowed into the carpenters' union

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-17/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-106-18)

Facing discrimination at the Elks Club, "No Orientals... allowed in the club"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-18/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-106-6)

Grade school memories, "When it comes to Constitutional rights, I knew it backwards and forward."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-106-6/

Narrator Jimi Yamaichi

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/107/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Interview II Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-312-5)

Observing friction in the camp administration

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-312-5/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Interview II Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-312-15)

Helping to organize the Tule Lake pilgrimages

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-312-15/

vh Jimi Yamaichi Interview II Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-312-19)

Hopes for the future of the Tule Lake camp site

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-312-19/

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