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98 items
Narrator Frank Emi
Nisei male. Born September 23, 1916, in Los Angeles, California. Attended Los Angeles City College for one year before leaving to run the family produce business. Married and had a daughter before being removed to Pomona Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. The leader of Heart Mountain's Fair Play Committee, was convicted of …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 6 No. 35 (August 26, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-286)
Selected article titles: "More Chicks Added Here" (p. 1), "Reeders Here This Friday" (p. 1), "Spanish Vice-Consul Visits: Message For Nationals" (p. 1), "No Nite Hours At Placement" (p. 1), "Nisei Feted at Kansas City" (p. 1), "Bids Now on Sale For Scholarship Fund Dance" (p. 1), "Meeting For Farmers Called" (p. 1), "Ozaki Compares: Minidoka …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 76 (June 25, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-165)
Selected article titles: "Human Ideal Can't be Forced"; "Eight for Individual Rights is Objective"; "On the Other Hand"; "Marriage Licenses"; "But That is Life"; "San Diegan Sympathetic"; "Navy Psychiatrist Observed Evacuee Behaviour at Poston Relocation Camp"; "Milton Eisenhower is Sought for New Post"; "300 Attend Open House at Kansas City Hostel"; "Describe Caravan"; "Watermelon Wool Dress"; …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 6 No. 18 (August 6, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-268)
Selected article titles: "Openings in Kansas City" (p. 1), "Divorce Cases" (p. 1), "Shortage of Med. Bottles" (p. 1), "Rumor Clinic" (p. 1), "No Army Control in Camp" (p. 1), "About Form 130" (p. 1), "Co-op Squelches Rumor on Japanese Merchandise" (p. 1), "No Closing of Centers" (p. 1), "Sumo Tourney Set For This Saturday; Plans …
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. III No. 9 (January 30, 1943) (ddr-densho-125-99)
Selected article titles: "Nisei May Answer Call to Colors" (p. 1), "Workers Required to Sign Individual Time Cards Monthly" (p. 1), "Nisei Desire to Serve Answered" (p. 1), "Valentine Lei Dance Features 3 Bands" (p. 1), "Government Calls for Automobiles and Farm Equipment" (p. 1), "WRA Field Offices Reaping Job Results. Latest Employment Offers Come From …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 110 (September 13, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-43)
Selected article titles: "Mexicans Want to Intern Them"; "Say No Place to Send 170 T.B. Patients"; "On the Other Hand"; "Realty Chief's View Hit by Newspaper"; "Express Shipment Permission is Granted"; "Supply of Attorneys Exhausted for Trial"; "Grinding Noise and Roaring 105's"; "Criticism Met and Solved in Nebraska"; "Over Two Hundred New Recruits Arrive"; "Fulbright Wants …
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Howard H. Furumoto Interview (ddr-densho-1007-1)
Nisei male. Grew up in Hilo, Hawaii. Was a veterinary student at Kansas State University when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Volunteered for the Military Intelligence Service, and served in Burma with the Merrill's Marauders.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, …
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George Fujimoto Interview (ddr-densho-1000-223)
Nisei male. Born January 13, 1920 in Colusa, California. Raised in Ault, Colorado, where family operated produce and sugar beet farm. Assumed responsibility for farm at age 15 when father suffered debilitating accident. Drafted into Army in 1942. After basic training in Camp Robinson, Arkansas, transferred to Fort Riley, Kansas. Attended second basic training in Camp …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 19 (November 13, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-44)
Selected article titles: "Gila Community Will Set Up Own Judicial System" (p. 1), "370 Loyal Evacuees Leave Newell Segregation Center. Military Police Aid Departure Of Final Group. Loyal Volunteers Still Harvesting Farm Crops On Tule Project Farm" (p. 1), "Rumor of Deaths In Tule Outbreak Exploded by Facts" (p. 1), "Strike Called By Segregants At Tule …
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See Grim fight in the Pacific: repatriates on Gripsholm report Japanese morale high (ddr-csujad-38-407)
A newspaper clipping titled: See Grim fight in the Pacific: repatriates on Gripsholm report Japanese morale high. It was sent from Laura in Lawrence, Kansas to Mitzi Masukawa Naohara incarcerated at the Poston camp in Arizona. It cites comments from the American repatriates traded between the U.S. and Japan regarding the morale of the Japanese that …
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Alfred M. Landon (ddr-njpa-1-850)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Domei Overseas Photographic News September 26. Two Enemies in the Same Boat. (Des Moines, Iowa) Domei. With the presidential race finally heating up and the campaigns of hard-fighting President Roosevelt and Republican candidate Kansas Governor Alfred Landon in utter opposition, the two met at the drought conference held here on the 4th. …
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Shizuko "Suzie" Sakai Interview (ddr-one-7-4)
Nisei female. Born April 14, 1922, in Yakima, Washington, and grew up in Central Washington state. During World War II, removed to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Left camp to attend college in Kansas and North Carolina. Eventually returned to the West Coast.
(This material is based upon work …
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Prisoners of silence: in a small Kansas cemetery, the graves of 14 German POWs represent one of the last untold stories of World War II (ddr-csujad-49-265)
Article titled, "Prisoners of Silence," by David Lamb. An item from: page 130 and the inner back cover of the Sue Kato scrapbook (gfb_skc_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2019_002_001_080_09
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 16 (October 23, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-41)
Selected article titles: "Japanese Americans Should Have Fair Trial, Pearl Buck Tells California Senate Group. Noted Author Declares Exclusion Laws Against Asiatics Primary Cause of Present War; Danger of Real Race War Told Committee" (p. 1), "West Coast Fair Play Group Surveys Washington Opinion On Japanese Americans. Mrs. Ruth Kingman Declares Pacific Coast Committee Interested in …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 32 (October 2, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-59)
Selected article titles: "Ag Division Plans Change" (p. 1), "Evacuee Aid Hope of Farmers" (p. 1), "Pocatello Unions Issue Protest Against Employment of Evacuees" (p. 1), "Opening For One Kibei, Issei in Foreign Legation" (p. 1), "Final Influx Of Tuleans Completed" (p. 1), "Students Will Help With Local Harvest" (p. 2), "Roving Reporter Queries Tuleans" (p. …
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Sam Horino Interview (ddr-densho-122-6)
Nisei male. Born July 17, 1914, in Gardena, California. Passively resisted "evacuation" in 1942, forcing two soldiers to carry him out of his home. Incarcerated at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, and became one of the steering committee leaders of the Fair Play Committee (FPC). Was tried along with the other FPC leaders and was convicted …
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Two men sitting on bench in garden (ddr-ajah-2-786)
Caption: While at Camp Crowder, Missouri, Dick Otsubo of Stockton, CA., and pal Joe Iwataki (at right) of alameda, CA., pose somewhere on the grounds, which they jokingly referred to as "Jimmy Kusuda's garden". Kusuda was another army friend stationed there. Unfortunately, Otsubo died in Italy during WWII. Photo August 26, 1942. Inscription on back: Aug. …
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Gloria Kubota Interview (ddr-densho-122-13)
Nisei female. Born June 6, 1916, in Santa Clara County, California. Raised in Santa Clara, and met and married Issei Guntaro Kubota, one of the leaders of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee. During World War II, incarcerated at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, along with daughter. Gave birth to a son in camp. Husband Guntaro …
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Frank Emi Interview II (ddr-densho-122-20)
Nisei male. Born September 23, 1916, in Los Angeles, California. Attended Los Angeles City College for one year before leaving to run the family produce business. Married and had a daughter before being removed to Pomona Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. The leader of Heart Mountain's Fair Play Committee, was convicted of …
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Frank Emi Interview I (ddr-densho-122-5)
Nisei male. Born September 23, 1916, in Los Angeles, California. Attended Los Angeles City College for one year before leaving to run the family produce business. Married and had a daughter before being removed to Pomona Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. The leader of Heart Mountain's Fair Play Committee, was convicted of …
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Frank Emi Interview (ddr-densho-1002-9)
Nisei male. Born September 23, 1916, in Los Angeles, California. Attended Los Angeles City College for one year before leaving to run the family produce business. Married and had a daughter before being removed to Pomona Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. The leader of Heart Mountain's Fair Play Committee, was convicted of …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 45, No. 3 (July 26, 1957) (ddr-pc-29-29)
Select article titles: "Almost 20,000 Mainland Issei Naturalized Within Past Decade" (p. 1); "Senate Takes Up Civil Rights Bill, 71-18 Vote" (p. 1); "Washington JACL Office analyses House Subcommittee report on Japanese farm labor" (p. 1); "Lonely airman's Japanese wife recovers from suicide attempt; steps to regain custody of children stirs interest in Kansas City" (p. …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 6 (April 3, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-34)
Selected article titles: "Needy Given Financial Assistance. Initial Living Costs, Train Fare Provided Through WRA Grants" (p. 1), "Army Exams Here on April 5; Col. Merrill Visits, Airs Plans" (p. 1), "January Clothing Payroll Completed" (p. 1), "New Co-op Board of Directors Headed by Y. Fujii Installed" (p. 1), "Pump Breakdown Causes Critical Water Shortage" (p. …