ddr-densho-1024 — Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films — Objects

av I Told You So (ddr-densho-1024-1)

Poet Lawson Inada shows how growing up in Fresno, California influenced his writing. He visits Tule Lake, the largest of the American concentration camps, where Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were imprisoned during World War II. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: I Told You So. See this item …

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av Justice Now! Reparations Now! (ddr-densho-1024-2)

A united front of Japanese American organizations, with the support of Japanese American legislators and the Congressional Black Caucus, uses grass roots organizing to successfully win reparations for unjust incarceration during World War II. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Justice Now! Reparations Now!. See this item in the Digital Library of …

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av Fort Sill Protest (ddr-densho-1024-3)

A coalition of progressive organizations, including Tsuru For Solidarity, American Indian Movement, Black Lives Matter and Brown Berets protest the holding of immigrants and refugees at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and expose its history as a prison for people of color. See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-3.

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av Crystal City Pilgrimage (ddr-densho-1024-4)

The first pilgrimage commemorating the largest U.S. Department of Justice multinational family concentration camp during World War II. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Crystal City Pilgrimage. See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-4.

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av Wyoming Chronicle: Aura Newlin Japanese Americans in Wyoming (ddr-densho-1024-5)

Aura Newlin, a Northwest College faculty member and board member of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, talks about her family history as a fourth generation Japanese American and a fourth generation Wyomingite, then takes the viewer on a tour of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center , telling the story of the forced removal and incarceration and …

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av Searchlight Serenade (ddr-densho-1024-6)

A 2012 documentary film on Japanese American swing dance bands in the World War II concentration camps. Produced by Claire Reynolds for KEET, a Eureka, California, based public television station serving California's northern coast, the hour long documentary debuted on October 30, 2012. The film was funded by grants from the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant …

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av Six Weddings and a Dress (ddr-densho-1024-7)

Short documentary film centering on Chiyomi Ogawa, a Nisei woman who had been incarcerated in Manzanar , and her wedding dress, which was subsequently used by five other women in the early postwar years. Born as Chiyomi Marumoto in 1924, Ogawa and her family lived in the in fishing community of |Terminal Island , where her …

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av Speak Out For Justice (Speaking Out!) (ddr-densho-1024-8)

Short compilation of testimony from the Los Angeles hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians includes excerpts from twenty-eight people covering a range of topics including the arrest and internment of Issei , the travails of being incarcerated, the continuing impact on the incarceration, and calls for monetary reparations. A total of …

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av Truth of the Matter (A Matter of Truth) (ddr-densho-1024-9)

The power of executive orders can be devastating as in the Executive Order 9066 issued during World War II that placed over 110,000 Japanese living in America into concentration camps. Similar to the Executive Order to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. issued early in Trump's first days in office. See this item in the Digital …

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av Putting Them Where They Could Do No Harm (ddr-densho-1024-10)

Short film that makes the case for renaming Fletcher Bowron Square in downtown Los Angeles, named after the wartime mayor of Los Angeles who agitated for the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. Eschewing narration, the film uses Bowron's wartime radio addresses (voiced by Maciek Kolodziejeczak) as evidence of his anti-Japanese and pro-exclusion stance, juxtaposed with …

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av Kash: The Legend and Legacy of Shiro Kashino (ddr-densho-1024-11)

Feature length documentary film by Vince Matsudaira that tells the story of Shiro "Kash" Kashino (1922–97), a decorated combat veteran of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team , whose legacy had been tarnished by a court-martial stemming from a fight while in France. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Kash: The Legend and Legacy …

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av Bitter Memories: Tule Lake (ddr-densho-1024-12)

Early film that provides an overview of the wartime forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast produced by the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. Bitter Memory tells the story through narration and interviews with former inmates accompanied by archival footage from Office of War Information/War Relocation Authority (WRA) films and WRA …

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av Lessons in Loyalty: One American's Internment Camp Experience (ddr-densho-1024-13)

Documentary film that profiles Masaji "Mas" Inoshita, a Nisei who was forcibly removed and incarcerated with his family at the Gila River , Arizona, camp during World War II and who subsequently served with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team . Lessons in Loyalty is built around interviews with Inoshita and also includes scenes of him visiting …

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av Gold Watch (ddr-densho-1024-14)

Gold Watch explores the personal impact of the beginning of World War II on the Japanese American farming community of Pasco, WA as seen through the eyes of the Murakami family and their neighbors. Masu Murakami, is a stubborn, independent, spirited Japanese immigrant. He struggles to maintain not only his farm in a harsh climate but …

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av Archival Footage of Japanese American soldiers of the 442nd RCT and 100th Battalion (ddr-densho-1024-15)

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ajahp-VT_208.

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av A Thousand Paper Cranes: How Denver's Japanese American Community Emerged from Internment (ddr-densho-1024-16)

Documentary film about the wartime incarceration and about Japanese Americans in Denver after the war. Scenes shot at the Amache site today serve as a backdrop for the incarceration stories, while the segments on Denver focus on the importance of Colorado Governor Ralph Carr and on Sakura Square, the symbolic center of Colorado's Japanese American community. …

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av Japanese Relocation (ddr-densho-1024-17)

Narr. by Milton S. Eisenhower, director of the War Relocation Authority. An historical record of the transfer of Japanese residents from the Pacific Coast to the American Interior as carried out the the U.S. Army and the War Relocation Authority. 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them American citizens. Special attention given to possibility of …

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av Challenge to Democracy (Japanese Internment) (ddr-densho-1024-18)

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/youtube-6RVMlu8nyWg.

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av The Japanese American (ddr-densho-1024-19)

Traces the relationship between the United States and Japan from Commodore Perry's mission in 1854 to the era of World War II, when Japanese Americans were declared enemy aliens and shipped to relocation camps. Shows how Japanese Americans have overcome early discrimination to become one of the most successful ethnic groups. From the collection of the …

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av Home Movies of Japanese American Incarceration Camps at Topaz (Utah) & Rohwer (AK) (ddr-densho-1024-20)

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ajahp-TIC_1.

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av Japanese American Internment History (ddr-densho-1024-21)

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/Japanese_American_Internment_History.

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av Home Movie: 010114: Jerome, Arkansas Relocation Center (ddr-densho-1024-23)

Home movie shot at the Jerome (Arkansas) Relocation Center, ca. June 1944. Jerome was the last concentration camp for Japanese Americans to open and the first to close; upon its closing, detainees were transported to nearby Rohwer and camps in other states. This Kodachrome film was shot by an unknown cameraperson and found on eBay. Includes …

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av Honor Bound: A Personal Journey (ddr-densho-1024-24)

Documentary film that tells the story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team through the story of one soldier, Haruo Howard "Howe" Hanamura, and his daughter, television reporter Wendy Hanamura, who travel to Europe in October 1994 for 50th anniversary ceremonies of the liberation of Bruyeres and Biffontaine by the 442nd. The film was produced by the …

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av Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith (ddr-densho-1024-25)

Documentary film about this history of the Buena Vista United Methodist Church, a Japanese American church in Alameda, California , on its 100th anniversary. Using family photographs, home movies and other sources, the film takes us through the church's history in ten and twenty year intervals, highlighting its founding and early growth through the Issei era, …

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av San Jose Asahi Baseball Team (ddr-densho-1024-26)

Rare home movies of the Japanese American San Jose Asahi baseball team, founded in the 1910s. Their history is captured in the book "From Asahi to Zebras: Japanese American Baseball in San Jose," by Ralph Pearce.This film was taken by amateur photographer Toshiro Kimura, possibly at the San Jose Asahi diamond at Sixth and Jackson Streets.Kichitaro …

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