Hoshidan
World War II
(228)
Resistance and dissidence
(83)
Segregation and Tule Lake
(249)
Hoshidan
(10)
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Large group of men wearing white headbands lined up along camp fence (ddr-densho-122-701)
Possibly Hoshi Dan group at Tule Lake

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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1000-164-35)
Father arrested by the FBI and removed from Tule Lake along with sixty-nine others

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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-164-34)
Observing changes in the pro-Japan organizations during the institution of the renunciation program

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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-164-31)
Joining father's organization, the Kenkyu Seinen Dan: shaving head, forming a bugle corps, and marching in drills

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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 37 (ddr-densho-1000-164-37)
Witnessing the frenzy of people applying to renounce their U.S. citizenship

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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-164-28)
Father forms a small group to propose to the camp administration the idea of "resegregating" Tule Lake, separating the pro-Japanese factions from everyone else

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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-164-30)
Formation of the Sokoku Kenkyu Seinen Dan, the Young Men's Association for the Study of the Motherland

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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 29 (ddr-densho-1000-164-29)
Father circulates a petition to support his resegregation idea after the camp administration rejects it; obtains 6,500 signatures

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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-164-36)
Personal feelings after father's arrest: angry, but "kind of proud"

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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 33 (ddr-densho-1000-164-33)
A shift in the objectives and leadership of the pro-Japan organizations after announcement that people would be allowed to renounce their U.S. citizenship