97 items
97 items

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Testimony of Minoru Yasui (ddr-densho-67-333)
Written testimony of Minoru Yasui. This testimony was submitted for the CWRIC hearing in Washington, D.C., on July 14, 1981. Personal information excised by Densho.

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"The Soliloquy of an African Ant-Eater" (ddr-densho-419-2)
A poem Min Yasui wrote under the pseudonym, "The Mad Mongolian" while he was in Multnomah County Jail.
The original poem is a part of the Minoru Yasui Collection which is held at the Auraria Library Special & Digital Collections Department, University of Colorado Denver. Contact [email protected] for use permissions and more information.

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"Japanese Nisei" (ddr-densho-419-1)
A poem written by Min Yasui.
The original poem is a part of the Minoru Yasui Collection which is held at the Auraria Library Special & Digital Collections Department, University of Colorado Denver. Contact [email protected] for use permissions and more information.

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"Why Are We Here?" (ddr-densho-419-4)
A poem written by Min Yasui.
The original poem is a part of the Minoru Yasui Collection which is held at the Auraria Library Special & Digital Collections Department, University of Colorado Denver. Contact [email protected] for use permissions and more information.

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"That Damned Fence" (ddr-densho-419-3)
A poem written by Min Yasui while he was incarcerated in Minidoka concentration camp.
The original poem is a part of the Minoru Yasui Collection which is held at the Auraria Library Special & Digital Collections Department, University of Colorado Denver. Contact [email protected] for use permissions and more information.

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Advertisement for a Civil Liberties League meeting (ddr-densho-67-109)
This group is protesting Min Yasui's incarceration and wants to raise awareness of his case to all internees.

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Nisei child sitting on a table (ddr-densho-259-154)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Min[oru Yasui] sitting on a round table covered with a crocheted white cloth."

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Nisei boy on a farm (ddr-densho-259-74)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Solo shot of Min[oru Yasui] as a youngster, maybe 4 or 5 years old."

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Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings (ddr-densho-346-135)
Min Yasui smoking a pipe during the hearings.

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Yasui v. United States, 772 F.2d 1496 (1985) (ddr-densho-405-38)
This document was available in conjunction with "Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment" by Eric K. Yamamoto, Margaret Chon, Carol Izumi, Jerry Kang, and Frank Wu.

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Yasui v. United States, District Court Order (ddr-densho-405-39)
This document was available in conjunction with "Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment" by Eric K. Yamamoto, Margaret Chon, Carol Izumi, Jerry Kang, and Frank Wu.

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Letter from Minoru Yasui to Shoso Miwa (ddr-densho-437-164)
Advising him on the transfer of James Seigo Miwa's assets

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Min Yasui Collection (ddr-densho-419)
The Min Yasui Collection consists of four poems written my Min Yasui between 1942 and 1945. In these pieces, Yasui reflects on war and the treatment of the Japanese American community as they were forcibly removed from the West Coast.

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Letter from Minoru Yasui to Katherine Sato (ddr-densho-437-32)
Advising her on the transfer of James Seigo Miwa's assets

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Nisei brothers eating rice balls (ddr-densho-259-498)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Min[oru Yasui] & Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] eating what appears to be musabi, also sometimes called onigiri (cooked rice balls) with Mount Hood in the background."

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"Hood River Japanese Community" (ddr-densho-259-302)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A large gathering of the Hood River Nihonjin, at what I think was taken on the little knoll to the northeast of the Hood River Japanese Community Hall."

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"Japan-America students society" (ddr-densho-259-297)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Posed group photo of what I will guess was a college group. This is a mixed group of young adult Caucasians and Nisei, both men and women. Since Frances Maeda is holding the Japanese Hino maru, and the American flag crosses it, I think that this may have been a Japan-America students …

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Hood River Japanese Farmers Association (ddr-densho-259-363)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A large group of Issei men and women, some with their children, and all formally dressed, in front of a stone church. This was the Riverside Church, which is a Congregational church, and it still stands in Hood River. I think that this has a connection with a memorial service which the …

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Jap Held in Curfew Case (April 23, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-766)
The Seattle Daily Times, April 23, 1942, p. 5

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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2027 (January 26, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-3)
Selected article titles: "I. Magnin, Joseph Magnin Urging Kenzo Label Change" (p. 1), "Yankee Samurai: Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory" (pp. 1, 9-12), "Japan's Pearl Harbor Spy Saw Evacuation as 'Cruel Joke'" (p. 2), and "Min Yasui Letters: From the Multnomah Jail" (p. 5).