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Narrator June M. Hoshida Honma

Nisei female. Born June 23, 1936, in Hilo, Hawaii. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, father was picked up by the FBI and detained at Sand Island internment camp, Hawaii. The rest of the family was removed to the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, to be reunited with him. After Jerome closed, transferred to …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/410/
Lorraine Bannai Interview (ddr-densho-1000-113)
vh Lorraine Bannai Interview (ddr-densho-1000-113)
Sansei female. Born 1955 in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Gardena, California, surrounded by a large Japanese American community. Influenced by father's role in community and politics, and mother's emphasis on education. Attended University of California, Santa Barbara where she became increasingly aware of Japanese American history, issues of ethnic identity and racial inequality. Attended …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-113/

Narrator Ronald Ikejiri

Sansei male. Born December 3, 1948, in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, parents had been incarcerated at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Father signed 'no-no' on the so-called 'loyalty questionnaire', renounced U.S. citizenship, and was sent to the Department of Justice camp at Bismarck, North Dakota. Family did not end up expatriating to …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/909/

Narrator Geri Handa

Geri Handa was born in San Jose, California, in 1948, and studied in the early 1970s at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a focus on community organizing and social services for seniors. She joined Asians for Community Actions in San Jose and worked at Keiro Nursing Home in …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/964/
An Oral History with Margaret Masuoka (ddr-csujad-29-25)
av An Oral History with Margaret Masuoka (ddr-csujad-29-25)
An interview with Margaret Masuoka, a volunteer at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), conducted for the Japanese American Project at California State Fullerton's Center for Oral and Public History. Specifically, this interview provides insight to Masuoka's personal history dealing with the prejudice that she and her family faced due their Japanese ancestry; her family's settlement …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-25/

Narrator George S. Matsui

Nisei male. Born March 1, 1915, in Los Angeles, California. Spent prewar childhood in Long Beach, California, but attended grade school and junior high in Japan. Returned to the United States to attend high school. In 1941, was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Camp Roberts, San Luis Obispo, California for basic training. Was …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/51/

Narrator Bob Suzuki

Nisei-han male. Born January 2, 1936, in Portland, Oregon, where father worked for the railroad. During World War II, removed to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, family moved to a small community outside of Spokane, Washington, to farm. Went to UC Berkeley and Caltech, then taught at …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/900/

Narrator Betty Fumiye Ito

Nisei female. Born March 29, 1918, in Seattle, Washington, and spent childhood in Medina and Bellevue, Washington. While in high school was a member of the Bellevue Strawberry Festival's Queen's Court. In 1939 married Kenji Ito, a prominent Japanese American lawyer who practiced in Seattle. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, recounts her experiences as her …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/214/
Issei man in Los Angeles (ddr-densho-242-34)
img Issei man in Los Angeles (ddr-densho-242-34)
Caption by Ike Hatchimonji: "Kumezo Hatchimonji - age 65 Los Angeles. Died 1956 Niland, Calif."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-242-34/
Wedding portrait with family and friends (ddr-densho-242-31)
img Wedding portrait with family and friends (ddr-densho-242-31)
Caption by Ike Hatchimonji: "Wedding photo Kumezo Hatchimonji and Nobue Komuro Los Angeles, Calif. April 1927. Rev. Kameji Komuro is shown third from left. Mrs. Komuro is shown to his left. Komuro family members are shown mostly on the left. Friends are on the right."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-242-31/
Portrait of Japanese American family in Los Angeles (ddr-densho-242-26)
img Portrait of Japanese American family in Los Angeles (ddr-densho-242-26)
Caption by Ike Hatchimonji: "Family photo Kameji Komuro - Los Angeles probably around 1925-26. Front l to r: daus. Sachiko, Shizuko, mother/wife Katsu, son Joseph, Rev. Komuro, dau. Mitsuko. Rear: dau. Miwaki Marion, brother of Kameji name unknown, dau. Nobue, and dau. Aimee."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-242-26/
Issei man in Los Angeles (ddr-densho-242-16)
img Issei man in Los Angeles (ddr-densho-242-16)
Caption by Ike Hatchimonji: "Los Angeles - around 1947-48. Kumezo Hatchimoji at his home."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-242-16/
Group portrait of Japanese Americans in formal attire (ddr-densho-242-25)
img Group portrait of Japanese Americans in formal attire (ddr-densho-242-25)
Caption by Ike Hatchimonji: "Ninomiya photo - could be in Los Angeles. No data available."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-242-25/
Dance party in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles (ddr-densho-242-12)
img Dance party in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles (ddr-densho-242-12)
Caption by Ike Hatchimonji: "Dance Party LA 1923." Caption on reverse: "Little Tokyo, Los Angeles 1923. 'Dance Party.' No other detail."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-242-12/
Japanese American woman with koto (ddr-densho-242-30)
img Japanese American woman with koto (ddr-densho-242-30)
Caption by Ike Hatchimonji: "Mrs. Chiyo Nagamine, friend of Hatchimonji. Her and her husband helped to establish the Japanese orphanage in Los Angeles."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-242-30/
Nisei brothers and sister at train station (ddr-densho-242-7)
img Nisei brothers and sister at train station (ddr-densho-242-7)
Caption on front: "Union Station L.A. 1940." Caption by Ike Hatchimonji: "Ike, Mike, and Gloria at Union Station, Los Angeles, 1940."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-242-7/
JACL 5th Biennial National Convention program book 1938 (ddr-densho-430-128)
doc JACL 5th Biennial National Convention program book 1938 (ddr-densho-430-128)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-430-128/
Four women visiting a library (ddr-densho-430-14)
img Four women visiting a library (ddr-densho-430-14)
Four women outside the doors of the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library at the University of Southern California.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-430-14/
Friends (ddr-densho-252-95)
img Friends (ddr-densho-252-95)
(Left to right) Ted Kaisaki and Fred Wataru Taniguchi. Caption on Post-it: "Fred Wataru and Ted Kaisaki met on a ship returning to Japan in 1936 - came back to US together. Taken in LA."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-252-95/
The Communist - Special Anti-Bakke Supplement (ddr-densho-444-68)
doc The Communist - Special Anti-Bakke Supplement (ddr-densho-444-68)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-444-68/
Pacific Ties November/December 1980 (ddr-densho-444-97)
doc Pacific Ties November/December 1980 (ddr-densho-444-97)
Newspaper of the Asian Pacific Student Outreach. Including Bulletin #1 from the National Council for Japanese American Redress
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-444-97/
Pacific Ties October 1981 (ddr-densho-444-89)
doc Pacific Ties October 1981 (ddr-densho-444-89)
UCLA's Asian/Pacific Newsmagazine
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-444-89/
Pacific Ties January/February 1981 (ddr-densho-444-91)
doc Pacific Ties January/February 1981 (ddr-densho-444-91)
UCLA's Asian/Pacific Newsmagazine
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-444-91/
Reprints of articles from Asian/Pacific Student Union newsletters (ddr-densho-444-154)
doc Reprints of articles from Asian/Pacific Student Union newsletters (ddr-densho-444-154)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-444-154/
Asian/Black Student Statewide Alliance Conference Program (ddr-densho-444-21)
doc Asian/Black Student Statewide Alliance Conference Program (ddr-densho-444-21)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-444-21/
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