To:
Mr. Thomas Tohru Ogawa
10-11-C
Minidoka, WRA,
Hunt, Idaho

From:
Shinjiro Morita
B-67, Detention Station
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Oct. 11, 1943

Dear Mr. Ogawa:

Many many thanks for your kind letter of Oct. 3rd. Glad to learn that you are getting along very nicely over there and are being kept quite busy in trying to help us internees with our trouble.

With reference to the two points in question I say as follows:

I have never engaged in dirty and distasteful duties as have been attributed to me, nor have I, at any time, made statement to that effect. Being connected with a hotel, my associations with various government agencies of Japan -- for that matter all guests of all descriptions -- were quite inevitable, but it is needless to say that they were all in the course of business, for any hotel would want to entertain and accommodate their guests as best as they can in order to maintain good reputation. That my associations continued up and into the year 1941 is quite so, because the flow of guests from the East was put to an end about that time due to strained atmosphere between the two countries.

I do not see anything wrong in my associations with these people in view of the fact that these associations, entertainments and accommodations were purely business affairs and calling of my trade, and with these facts in mind, please try your best in obtaining a rehearing for me at an early date.

Thanking you for your ever so kind assistance, I remain

Sincerely yours,