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5890 items
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Granada Pioneer Vol. III No. 91 (September 15, 1945) (ddr-densho-147-300)
Selected article titles: "Farm in Final Clean-up Stage" (p. 1), "May Hire Nisei in Center Civil Service Posts" (p. 3), "Philippines Nisei GI's Rap Hearst Paper Attitude" (p. 5), "Official Text: Public Proclamation No. 24" (p. 7), "Parolees Must Abide by Specific Regulations" (p. 7), "Movement to Japan to Start" (p. 9), "Protest Repatriation of Japanese …
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Menu (ddr-csujad-55-1978)
Menu "courtesy of the third military railway service occupation forces in Japan." Includes menus for breakfast, supper, and dinner. From the Masako Adachi scrapbook, page 22. See also sac_jaac_1953. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1981
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Chiyono (Makio) Isoshima (ddr-densho-477-14)
Portrait of Chiyono (Makio) Isoshima wearing a coat with a fur collar. Caption below the photo is "Takeo's Mother Chiyono" written in black ink. Caption on bottom of page is "Takeo's Siblings: Sister Yukiko 1913 St. Marie, Idaho Takeo 1915 St. Marie, Idaho Brother Hiroo 1918 Okayama, Japan Sister Chizu 1925 White Fish, Montana Sister Fuki …
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Sisters Chizu and Fuki Isoshima (ddr-densho-477-16)
Portrait of sisters Chizu (Isoshima) Morita (left) and Fuki (Isoshima) Kawada (right). Caption below the photo is "Sister's Chizu & Fuki" written in black ink. Caption on bottom of page is "Takeo's Siblings: Sister Yukiko 1913 St. Marie, Idaho Takeo 1915 St. Marie, Idaho Brother Hiroo 1918 Okayama, Japan Sister Chizu 1925 White Fish, Montana Sister …
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Shigeki Sugiyama Interview (ddr-manz-1-96)
Nisei male. Born December 19, 1927, in Alameda, California. Grew up in Alameda. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. While in camp, worked at the camouflage net factory and in the camp's hospital. Transferred with family to the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After leaving camp, was drafted into the U.S. military …
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Interview with Shigeko Iwaihara Koga (ddr-ajah-3-354)
Shigeko Iwaihara Koga was born March 23, 1911. She was a member of the Alameda Buddhist Temple. In 1916, Mrs. Koga returned to Japan and enrolled in grade school. The family returned to Alameda, California, in 1918 where Mrs. Koga atended Porter Elementary School. She was incarcerated at the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Mrs. Koga became …
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Letter from Chiong-hui to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-341)
Chiong-hui's sister married Khe-an and are in Japan. Ai Chih Tsai and Chiong-hui were friends in middle-school. Both are now in ministry and want to serve in Formosa. There appears to be support for their work, but they wonder how they can return to Formosa quickly. Mentions Rev. & Mrs. Montgomery will visit church in Formosa …
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Wang Dexian aboard the Takasago Maru (ddr-njpa-1-1057)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "As the future director of [illegible] [...] Wang Dexian, living in Guangdong and waiting for his granduncle Wang Jingwei [...] bearing the reborn China [...] General Lu Chunrong's son Lu Dezhong [...] eyes of joy towards the sight of Japan. Photograph: Wang Dexian (left) with Lu Dezhong aboard the Takasago Maru. [white …
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Ayame Tsutakawa Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-95)
Kibei female. Born May 23, 1924, in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California. Sent to Japan to live with a relative when thirteen months old. Returned to United States and mother when twelve years old. Incarcerated at Sacramento Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, both in California. Resettled in Sacramento, California. Married George Tsutakawa, …
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Muriel Chiyo Tanaka Onishi Interview (ddr-densho-1000-243)
Nisei female. Born March 6, 1921, in Hilo, Hawaii. Grew up in Hilo, where parents were Japanese language school teachers. In 1939, moved to Japan to obtain medical treatment, and attended school there. During World War II, was conscripted into the Japanese military and worked as an interpreter, translating U.S. radio transmissions for General Headquarters in …
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview (ddr-densho-1000-509)
Nisei-Sansei female. Born May 9, 1941, in Seattle Washington. An infant when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, family was sent to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, family returned to Seattle, where Dotti attended school. After high school, moved to Southern California, raised a family, and became a teacher …
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Ayame Tsutakawa Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-94)
Kibei female. Born May 23, 1924, in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California. Sent to Japan to live with a relative when thirteen months old. Returned to United States and mother when twelve years old. Incarcerated at Sacramento Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, both in California. Resettled in Sacramento, California. Married George Tsutakawa, …
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May Ohmura Watanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1000-454)
Nisei female. Born May 13, 1922, in Chico, California. Grew up in Chico, where parents ran a produce store. Was in college when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and was removed with her family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend school in Syracuse, New York, and become a public health nurse. Later …
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Portrait of Ozeki and Nakayama families (ddr-ajah-6-804)
Caption below photo: Studio portrait of the Ozeki, Nakayama families and perhaps a friend. The Ozeki and Nakayamas were close. The unknown man was a friend of the Ozekis as he appears in their photo albums several times. The three children would soon be sent back (in 1912) to Japan for their education, thus dating this …
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Interview with Sho Nomura, part 1 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1610)
Nomura discusses growing up in California, selling the family business and evacuation, and his thoughts on war with Japan. Video starts at 0:27. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 93, II LA #40, 7-25-85, Sho Nomura Interview I. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1611/
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Postcard to Kaneji Domoto in Japanese (ddr-densho-329-934)
Postcard addressed to Kaneji, message and signature in Japanese. Front of card has an image of a warrior on a horse crossing a body of water, captioned in English "AKECHI SAMONOSUKE, FORDING THE LAKE BIWA (1582 A.D.)" Back of card has a logo for "TOYO KISEN KAISHA / ORIENTAL S.S. CO" and reads at bottom "Printed …
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Two Issei in front of barracks (ddr-densho-37-327)
Original WRA caption: Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Joseph Gerald Osamu Sakamoto, 80, and Mary Ann Tsuchi Sakamoto, 80, on their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Sakamoto came to the United States from Japan in 1894. He was the first Japanese second-hand furniture store proprietor, first Japanese express man and one of the first vegetable …
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Japanese American playing a board game (ddr-densho-37-428)
Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. An early immigrant from Japan, now residing at Heart Mountain, after evacuation from West Coast areas, reaches for a pawn in a game of Shogi, similar in characters and playing to chess. Although previously mumbling in Japanese, startled by the camera flas, the old gent let …
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Letter to Yuri Tsukada from Wak Domoto (ddr-densho-356-593)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from her sister Wakako Domoto. Wak writes about her poor living situation and plans to move, a possible to visit Japan and hopefully meet their sister Kayeko Nakashima and family who live there, details about a man she has been seeing, and her thoughts and desire to keep all this secret …
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Marian Asao Kurosu Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-118-22)
Husband had no intention of returning to Japan to live
During this interview, Mrs. Kurosu alternately speaks in both English and Japanese. As a result, the English translation of the transcript contains [Jpn.] and [Eng.], which indicate whether the original dialogue was spoken in Japanese or English.
Narrator Kay Sweeney
Japanese female. Born 1922 in Kagoshima, Japan. During World War II, served as a nurse with the Japanese army in Jakarta and Japan. After the war, moved to the United States and lived in San Francisco before eventually settling in Portland, Oregon.
Narrator Takashi Matsui
Kibei male. Born January 20, 1917, in Hood River, Oregon. Lived in Seattle, Washington, before being taken to Japan by mother at the age of three. Completed elementary through high school in Japan. Returned to Seattle at seventeen years of age. Continued education in United States. Drafted in 1942 and was an instructor for the Military …
Narrator Toyoko Okumura
Nisei female. Born October 14, 1916, in Gardena, California. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. In response to the so-called "loyalty questionnaire," transferred to Tule Lake segregation center with family, and expatriated to Japan. Worked in Japan for the U.S. government and …
Narrator Frank Fukuhara
Kibei male. Born August 25, 1924. As a child, sent to live in Japan after father's passing. Attended school in Japan and was drafted into the Japanese military. During the U.S. occupation, was reunited with brother who had been serving with the Military Intelligence Service.
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U.S. Firm on Japanese Ban. Answer on Exclusion is Made Public. Washington Regards Incident as Closed by Hughes' Note Denying Violation of Treaties With Japan. (June 19, 1924) (ddr-densho-56-389)
The Seattle Daily Times, June 19, 1924, pp. 1, 13, 14