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img Group of 4 at the beach (ddr-densho-326-612)

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img Large group of men (ddr-densho-326-603)

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img Woman in kimono (ddr-densho-326-610)

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img Large group on sidewalk with trophies (ddr-densho-326-607)

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img View of the road from inside the car (ddr-densho-326-498)

Caption: North of L.A.

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img Man outside Grocery store (ddr-densho-326-598)

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img View of the road from inside the car (ddr-densho-326-496)

Caption: Between Bakersfield and LA. / F. Takeshitas V8 in front taken 60 mi. Hr.

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img Five men with cameras (ddr-densho-326-605)

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img Ocean view (ddr-densho-326-608)

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img Overlook of river (ddr-densho-326-571)

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img Child waiting with baggage (ddr-densho-37-436)

Original WRA caption: A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry waits with the family baggage before leaving by bus for an assembly center in the spring of 1942.

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img Staff school room (ddr-densho-37-212)

Children of Tule Lake camp administrators attended the Gardenia School.

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av Alice Uyeda Interview (ddr-densho-400-23)

Alice Uyeda was born on February 19, 1920, in Baldwin Park, California. Alice was the youngest of three children to Buhei and Sawaye Ito. Her father was a truck farmer in Baldwin Park. On December 7, 1941, when World War II broke out, Alice was working in Glendale, California. She and her family went to Utah …

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av Fujiko "Fuzzy" Ishikawa Interview (ddr-densho-400-8)

Fujiko Ishikawa was born on November 18, 1912, in Oxnard, California. She grew up in Lomita, California, and attended UCLA where she met her husband Henry who became a partner in a successful produce business. She was imprisoned at Santa Anita Race Track and the concentration camp in Amache, Colorado. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, during …

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av Sumiko Sumi Seki Interview (ddr-densho-400-21)

Sumiko Seki was born on November 24, 1924, in San Pedro, California. She was one of Midori and Kazue Seo's three children. Her father was a farmer in San Pedro and her mother was a housewife. When the war broke out she and her family were sent to Jerome concentration camp in Arkansas. When the war …

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av Harold Takashi Kobata Interview (ddr-densho-400-12)

Harold Takashi Kobata was born on April 5, 1926, in Gardena, California. He grew up in Gardena where his uncle, mother and older brothers ran a flower nursery. The family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, during World War II, where Kobata worked as a gardener while attending high school. After the war the family returned …

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vh George Sakaye Nakano Interview (ddr-densho-400-17)

George Sakaye Nakano was born on November 24, 1935, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. George's parents were Kibei, born in Hawaii, then educated in Japan before returning to the U.S. Nakano grew up in Los Angeles until he was six years old. When WWII started, the Nakano family was incarcerated in the …

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av Alice Ono Interview (ddr-densho-400-19)

Alice Ono was born on January 1, 1912, in Los Angeles, California. She was one of five children of Yujiro and Yone Fukuyama. Her father was a produce broker and her mother was a housewife. During World War II, she and her family were sent to the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. After the war she and …

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av Ryo Komae Interview (ddr-densho-400-14)

Ryo Komae was born on July 26, 1918, in Los Angeles, California. He was one of three children, and his parents were Tojiro and Komaji Komae. His father was "watchman" (security guard) for the Los Angeles City Market and his mother was a housewife. During World War II, he was removed with his family to the …

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av George Kobayashi Interview (ddr-densho-400-13)

George Kobayashi was born on February 20, 1924, in Torrance, California. He was one of three children, and his parents' names were Tamechi and Yuko Kobayashi. His father was a farmer in Gardena and his mother was a housewife. When the war broke out, he and his family moved to Fort Lupton, Colorado. During the war …

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av George Ishibashi Interview (ddr-densho-400-7)

George Ishibashi was born on March 27, 1914, in San Pedro, California. He grew up on a farm in Palos Verdes, California. His father immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1890s and leased his first farm in 1906. Following Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, the family's lease was unceremoniously ended. Ishibashi and his family were …

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av Tetsuo "Ted" Hasegawa Interview (ddr-densho-400-4)

Ted Hasegawa was born on January 16, 1921, in Sacramento, California, and educated in Japan. When he returned to Torrance, California, where his parents farmed, he started kindergarten at the age of 11. After high school, he took automotive classes at a trade school in Los Angeles. Hasegawa witnessed the mass eviction of Japanese residents from …

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av Ken Inose Interview (ddr-densho-400-5)

Ken Inose was born in 1933 in Los Angeles, California, as one of four children to Sejiro and Yoshiko Inose. Before World War II, Ken lived in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles where he had ethnically diverse neighbors. His father was a salesman and his mother was a housewife. When the war broke out, …

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av Kikue Isobe Interview (ddr-densho-400-9)

Kikue Isobe was born on September 25, 1920, in Brawley, California. She was one of three children to Fukuichi and Sei Nishimoto. Her father was a foreman for a cantaloupe and honeydew grower in Brawley. Kikue grew up mainly in Brawley. When the war broke out she and her family were relocated to the Poston concentration …

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vh Frances Kaji Interview (ddr-densho-400-10)

Frances Kaji was born on April 30, 1928, in Gardena, California. She grew up in Gardena as the daughter of pioneer physician Kikuwo Tashiro. She remembers Gardena as it changed from a rural to suburban community. During World War II, her family moved to Fresno to avoid incarceration but was eventually imprisoned at the concentration camp …

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