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Group photograph at the Bellevue Community Center Dedication (ddr-densho-347-1)
The Bellevue Community Center was located at NE 8th Street, just north of the current Bellevue Square Mall.
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The Bellevue Kokaido (ddr-densho-353-324)
Captioned: "The Bellevue Kokaido (community hall) is dedicated by a group of well-wishers."
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Numoto family farm (ddr-densho-353-60)
Captioned: "The Numoto family working on their thriving strawberry farm. The water tower is reminiscent of the days before a city water system existed."
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The Bellevue Kokaido (ddr-densho-353-325)
Captioned: "The Bellevue Kokaido (community hall) is dedicated by a crowd of well-wishers."
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Memorial table for Takami Hibiya (ddr-densho-381-193)
A table decorated with a portrait of Takami Hibiya, the Seal of the Emperor of Japan medal, flowers, and a white cloth.
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Frank Miyamoto Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-50)
Nisei male. Born July 29, 1912, in Seattle, Washington. Wrote 'Social Solidarity Among the Japanese in Seattle' as a Master's thesis, published in 1939 as one of the first academic works on the Japanese immigrant community. Incarcerated in Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Member of the Evacuation and Resettlement Study which studied the incarceration and resettlement …
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Fumiko M. Noji Interview (ddr-densho-1000-72)
Nisei female. Born October 13, 1909, in Bellingham, Washington. Lost her United States citizenship when she married an Issei through an arranged marriage. Before 1920, her husband's family established Columbia Greenhouse, one of the first Japanese American-owned greenhouse businesses. Incarcerated at Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Husband was held by the …
Narrator Seichi Hayashida
Nisei male. Born May 15, 1919, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in a Japanese American farming community in Bellevue, Washington. Incarcerated at the Pinedale Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, both in California, and at Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Longtime member and supporter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL).
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 …
Narrator Bernadette Suda Horiuchi
Nisei female. Born February 11, 1913, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in the Seattle and Bellevue, Washington, areas. In 1928, was involved in a serious ferry accident in which five of her family members, including both of her parents, perished. Married renowned artist Paul Horiuchi and lived in Rock Springs, Wyoming, where Paul worked for a …
Narrator Chizuko Norton
Nisei female. Born July 3, 1924, in Seattle, Washington. Spent prewar childhood in Japan; Bellevue, Washington; and Kirkland, Washington. Incarcerated at Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Returned to Seattle after the war, obtained master's degree from the University of Washington in the field of social work. Founded Seattle's first alternative school …
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Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-50-6)
"Ken" (prefecture) connections: how Japanese geography affected Japanese American businesses
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Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-50-16)
Description of the Seattle Japanese Association
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Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-50-19)
Dating and social activities prewar
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Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-50-7)
The development of Seattle's Japantown businesses and industries
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Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-50-9)
Race relations in prewar Seattle and the spread of Japanese businesses into larger society
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Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-50-2)
Discussion of reasons for Japanese immigration to the U.S.
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Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-50-5)
Isseis' prewar employment: anti-Japanese sentiment in sawmills
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Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-50-3)
Physical layout of Seattle's prewar Japantown