Social and recreational activities
Japanese Americans found ways to fill the long days created by the enforced idleness of camp life. They made jewelry from shells found in the desert, built furniture for their rooms using scrap lumber and renovated the exteriors of their barracks. People also played cards, chess, checkers, mahjongg, and the Japanese games 'go' and 'shogi.' Camp inmates held dances, concerts, plays, and arts and crafts exhibitions. In Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, they even held a beauty contest to select the "Sweetheart of Minidoka."
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Japanese Americans at a picnic (ddr-densho-15-78)
Left to right: Tak Hori, unidentified, and Robert Ikeda.
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Japanese Americans playing cards at the fire station (ddr-densho-15-59)
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.
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Japanese Americans at a picnic (ddr-densho-15-81)
This picnic may have taken place at a local Japanese American farm.
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An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part II (ddr-csujad-29-60)
An oral history with Sumiye Takeno, a current resident of Denver, Colorado. This interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. The purpose of this interview was to gather information regarding Takeno's incarceration and resettlement experience during World War II. Specifically, the interview covers her childhood in Florin, California, …
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Oral history with Alice Nishimoto (ddr-csujad-29-395)
An oral interview with Alice Nishimoto, incarceree at the Crystal City detention facility. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0970. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 3916_T01
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An oral history with Henry Yoshitake (ddr-csujad-29-37)
An oral interview with Henry Yoshitake, an incarceree at the Santa Anita Assembly Center and the Rohwer incarceration camp. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcription is found in the item: csufccop_jaoh_0126. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2373_T01
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An oral history with Elva Wallace (ddr-csujad-29-46)
An oral interview with Elva Wallace, a child civilian at the Tule Lake incarceration camp. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0148. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2654_T01
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An oral history with Ken Hayashi (ddr-csujad-29-26)
An oral interview with Ken Hayashi, an incarceree at the Pinedale Assembly Center and the Tule Lake incarceration camp. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0100. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1323.1_T01
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An oral history with Mitsuyo N. Nakai (ddr-csujad-29-45)
An oral interview with Mitsuyo N. Nakai, incarceree at the Manzanar incarceration camp. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0146. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2546_T01
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Oral history with Rodney Kaihara (ddr-csujad-29-374)
An oral interview with Rodney Kaihara, incarceree at the Poston incarceration camp. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0928. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1277_T01
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Oral history with George T. Fukasawa (ddr-csujad-29-365)
An oral interview with George T. Fukasawa, incarceree at the Manzanar incarceration camp. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0910. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1336_T01
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Oral history with Ed. H. Runcorn (ddr-csujad-29-364)
An oral interview with Ed. H. Runcorn, a worker for the War Relocation Authority during World War II. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0908. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1332_T01
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An oral history with Rumi Uragami (ddr-csujad-29-38)
An oral interview with Rumi Uragami, an incarceree at the Santa Anita Assembly Center and the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcription is found in the item: csufccop_jaoh_0128. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …
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Oral history with June Igauye (ddr-csujad-29-386)
An oral interview with June Igauye, incarceree at the Poston War Relocation Center. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0952. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1769_T01
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Oral history with Takeo Yamada (ddr-csujad-29-375)
An oral interview with Takeo Yamada, incarceree at the Poston incarceration camp. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0930. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1279_T01