Higher education

The Issei (first-generation Japanese immigrants) put great emphasis on education as a means of succeeding in the U.S. While many Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans) obtained college degrees, they found professions closed to them. It was not uncommon for educated nisei to be forced to settle for menial jobs in the ethnic community. Frequently, Japanese Americans could find jobs commensurate with their education only by becoming independent professionals such as doctors and dentists providing services to the Japanese community. The World War II incarceration interrupted thousands of students' university educations.

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img Ai Chih Tsai Photo (ddr-densho-446-371)

Ai Chih Tsai with his English Teacher's Certificate after his graduation from the Preparatory College of Doshisha University in Mar 1935

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-371/

doc Letter from James Dickson to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-322)

Invitation for Ai Chih Tsai to come to Canada to speak to churches and young people to gather support for Formosa plan. Dickson will leave for Formosa on March 6.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-322/

doc Ai Chih Tsai Master of Arts Diploma (ddr-densho-446-373)

Master of Arts, Divinity School, University of Chicago

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-373/

doc SDSU NewsCenter: CSU Seeks to honor WWII internees (ddr-densho-446-367)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-367/

doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to John "Johnny" Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-143)

Letter with updates on New Year's weekend 1942-1943

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-143/

img Mae Yoshiko (Miwa) Higaki (ddr-densho-458-78)

Mae Yoshiko (Miwa) Higaki in graduation cap and gown

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-458-78/

img Mae Yoshiko (Miwa) Higaki (ddr-densho-458-79)

Mae Yoshiko (Miwa) Higaki in graduation cap and gown. Written on verso: Poston, Arizona 1943

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-458-79/

img Man in graduation robes (ddr-densho-359-1543)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1543/

img Nursing student (ddr-densho-359-287)

Caption below the photograph in the album " Yoshie Nakata Columbus hospital Nursing School 1936"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-287/

img Man in graduation robes (ddr-densho-359-1539)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1539/

img Portrait of a graduate (ddr-densho-359-1615)

The caption written under the photograph is "Crystal City June 1945".

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1615/

img Man in graduation robes (ddr-densho-359-1541)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1541/

doc Baccalaureate Commuity Program (ddr-manz-4-226)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-4-226/

doc Clipping about Tomoye Nozawa's induction into Phi Theta at Berkeley (ddr-densho-410-366)

Article title: Two Nisei California Student Initiated into Honor Society

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-366/

doc Commencement ceremony announcement (ddr-densho-410-166)

For Martha Masako Nozawa's graduation from University of Minnesota

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-166/

doc Letter and card from Martha Nozawa to Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-414)

Their father is visiting her in Minneapolis, she is planning to stay there for the time being, better prospects for a job and husband, had a long talk with their father about him marrying Mrs. Harada, visited with friends stationed at Fort Snelling

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-414/

doc Invitation and ticket to commencement at Berkeley (ddr-densho-410-252)

Sent to Tomoye Nozawa from Toshiko Kako

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-252/

doc Letter from Maurice Woolf, Guidance Counselor at Stephens College, to Tomoye Nozawa (ddr-densho-410-369)

Asking about Tomoye's sister's plans for college

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-369/

doc Letter from Kay to Mrs. (Tomoye) Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-411)

Describing her activities at college, likely in St. Louis, plans for the future and news of mutual friends

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-411/

doc Clipping about Tomoye Nozawa's induction into Phi Theta at Berkeley (ddr-densho-410-365)

Article title: 2 Nisei admitted into Honor Society. Including mention of Tomoye Nozawa's attendance at social event

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-365/

doc Letter from Director of Development at Stanford to Tomoye and Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-422-271)

Thanking them for endowing the professorship chair and announcing the first recipient, with envelope

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-422-271/

doc Scrapbook from 1984, trip to Japan, endowment of Japanese Studies Professorship at Stanford University (ddr-densho-422-565)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-422-565/

doc Empty envelope (ddr-densho-422-623)

Sent to Mr. and Mrs. Henri Takahashi. Loose between page 20 and page 21.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-422-623/

doc Letter from Mrs. Donald (Jeanne) Kennedy to Mr. and Mrs. Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-422-621)

Thanking them for their gift and visit to her home

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-422-621/

doc Clipping from Campus Report, Stanford University newspaper (ddr-densho-422-615)

Announcing the first holder of the Takahashi Professorship, Prof. Masahiko Aoki

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-422-615/