Documentaries

doc Inouye notes (ddr-densho-1007-1427)

Daniel Inouye was a senator for Hawaii from 1963 to 2012 and was interviewed for Nisei Soldier.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1427/

doc Camera notes (ddr-densho-1007-884)

Color of Honor production notes.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-884/

av Interview with Jacob Herzog, part 3 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1541)

Herzog discusses WWII military intelligence, particularly in the Pacific (Saipan, Okinawa, the Gilbert Islands). Talks about the difficulty of getting Japanese soldiers to surrender. Video starts at 1:00. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II NY #25, Jacob Herzog. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1542/

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1541/

doc Photos to re-do (ddr-densho-1007-1074)

For The Color of Honor.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1074/

av Interview with Manny Goldberg, part 2 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1563)

Goldberg discusses the different reasons he and the Nisei joined the army and his service in Saipan. Interview is cut short to move location after background noise becomes an issue. Video starts at 0:51. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 61, II NY #47, 6-85, Goldberg. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1564/

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1563/

av Interview with Harry Fukuhara, part 1 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1697)

Fukuhara discusses his service in the Pacific theater, working with ATIS, and his first landing. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Last few seconds are an accidental recording from the Kiyofumi Kojima interview. Original title: 212, II JA #36, Harry Fukuhara, Sun. Feb. 2. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1698/

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1697/

av Conversation between John Burden and Shig Kihara, part 3 of 3 (ddr-densho-1007-1785)

Conversation continued from ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1654/. Burden and Kihara discuss Burden and his wife predicting that Japan would fight the US before Pearl Harbor, the story of Admiral Chester Nimitz, and the founding of the Military Intelligence Service Language School. Around 6 minutes, tape shifts to b-roll shots of the two walking around and their surroundings. Video …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1785/

av Interview with Frank Emi, part 3 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1794)

Emi discusses the racial discrimination he experienced as a child, not speaking up for himself in high school, the impact of racism on Nisei, the lessons he learned from his parents, the Fair Play Committee's case in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, and the charges levied against the Committee. Interview starts at 0:31. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1794/

doc Letter from Gordon Kayahara to Loni Ding and attached Nisei Soldier review (ddr-densho-1007-1490)

Review published in The Canada Times on September 18, 1984.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1490/

doc List of National Archive material for Nisei Soldier (ddr-densho-1007-1463)

Project referred to as 442nd/MIS project at this time, had yet to be named Nisei Soldier.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1463/

doc Joe L. Harada interviewee form (ddr-densho-1007-1136)

Used for the film Color of Honor.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1136/

av Interview with Yukio Kawamoto, part 5 of 8 (ddr-densho-1007-1549)

Kawamoto discusses the letters he wrote to his parents during his service, visiting them in camp (Topaz), and getting his dog tags marked as Buddhist. Also talks about post-war occupation of Japan with ATIS. Video starts at 0:57. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 50, II NY #33, Kawamoto. Interview …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1549/

av Interview with John Aiso, part 4 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1577)

Aiso discusses the difficulty Nisei had becoming commissioned officers, the qualities of Nisei MISLS students, how he himself learned Japanese, his time at Harvard Law School and difficulty finding a job, his time working for the British American Tobacco Company in Manchukuo, being drafted and founding the MISLS, and the role of Nisei soldiers during the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1577/

av Interview with Ray Aka, part 2 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1686)

Aka discusses being drafted in San Francisco, his reaction to Pearl Harbor (which happened two months after he was drafted), being relieved from duties after Pearl Harbor, his prospects as a Nisei growing up in Hawaii, his father's arrest in Hawaii and incarceration in mainland US. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions in the background. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1686/

doc Song and sound list (ddr-densho-1007-890)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-890/

doc Excerpts from The Color of Honor (ddr-densho-1007-1484)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1484/

av Interview with Shiro Tokuno, part 3 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1783)

Tokuno discusses the role of Nisei in the occupation, the attitudes Japanese nationals and American officers had toward Nisei, his service managing agricultural/forestry/fisheries/mining in occupied Japan, the policies he helped implement, moving to Sacramento and farming after the war, deciding to go into military intelligence, his mother's thoughts on him joining the military, and working with …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1783/

av Interview with Sho Nomura, part 2 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1611)

Nomura discusses his family's internment at Gila River, volunteering and testing for the MIS language school, and the difficulty his family faced in camp after he volunteered. Video starts at 0:22. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 94, II LA #41, 7-25-85, Sho Nomura Interview II. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1612/

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1611/

doc Steve K. Yagi interviewee form (ddr-densho-1007-955)

Used for the film The Color of Honor.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-955/

doc Hayato Kihara interviewee form (ddr-densho-1007-1135)

Used for the film Color of Honor.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1135/

img Kenny performing taiko (ddr-densho-1007-1203)

Negative. Last name unknown.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1203/

doc Interviewee notes (ddr-densho-1007-1094)

From after Nisei Soldier/The Color of Honor.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1094/

av Pre-war house footage, part 6 of 8 (ddr-densho-1007-1738)

B-roll: books, letters, photographs, exterior. At 10:45, footage of Rudy Tokiwa showing a grain of rice he's kept for luck since the start of the war. After interview, b-roll of a US military service banner. Original title: 81B, II TB-6, Reel #6, 6/27/87. Footage continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1739/

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1738/

av Balcony conversation between George Kanegai, Yosh Yamada, and Jimmie Matsumura (ddr-densho-1007-1604)

George Kanegai, Yosh Yamada, and Jimmie Matsumura Matsumura have a conversation on a balcony, directed by Loni. The three talk about their service, the Z Plan, the 112th, and Yosh's deployment overseas before the war. Original title: 90, II LA #31, 7-24-85, Balcony: K. Akune, H. Akune, Kanegai, Yamada & Matsumura

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1604/

doc Higuchi notes (ddr-densho-1007-1425)

Likely for Nisei Soldier.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1425/

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