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 Graduation portrait of Taiji Mashihara from Harvard (ddr-ajah-6-24)

Caption below photo: Taiji Mashihara's 1920 Harvard graduation photo. After his arrival from Japan in 1907, he lived in Alameda., CA., and attended the University of California. He moved to Boston to study dentistry and dental surgery, a rare occupation for an Issei in America. Inscription on front: T. Mashihara 1920. Inscription in Japanese on side …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-24/

img Graduation portrait of Shizuto Kawamura (ddr-ajah-6-73)

Inscription on front: Sincerely, [?] Kawamura 1929. Caption below photo: Shizuto Kawamura graduates from U.C. Berkeley in May 1929. He was born in Alameda, CA circa 1908.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-73/

doc Certificate from Board of Dental Examiners for Taiji Mashihara (ddr-ajah-6-25)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-25/

img Man standing outside building (ddr-ajah-6-44)

Caption below photo: Kenji Tomita, of Alameda, CA., at the University of Cincinnati, OH., circa 1943-1944

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-44/

doc Clipping about Miyoshi Wada's graduation from San Francisco Junior College (ddr-ajah-6-970)

Article title: SR JC Grad Feted by Alameda Friends

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-970/

img Graduation portrait of Kimiko Nakayama (ddr-ajah-6-187)

Inscription on front: Kimi 5/'36. Caption below photo: Kimiko Nakayama graduates from design school at Woodbury College in Los Angeles, CA. May 1936

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-187/

img Portrait of May Kanda in graduation robe and mortar board (ddr-ajah-6-147)

Signed on front: Most sincerely, May

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-147/

img Rose Yamada on her graduation day (ddr-densho-432-37)

Caption in album: "Graduation / Rose Yamada."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-432-37/

img Yoshiko and Tosao Yamada at the University of Washington graduation (ddr-densho-432-79)

Yoshiko Yamada at her graduation from the University of Washington. She stands here with her mother, Tosao Yamada.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-432-79/

img Yoshiko Yamada at her University of Washington graduation (ddr-densho-432-77)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-432-77/

img Yoshiko Yamada on her University of Washington graduation day (ddr-densho-432-82)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-432-82/

img Woman in graduation robe (ddr-densho-522-764)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-522-764/