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img Yoko Takahashi's wedding (ddr-one-2-145)

Black and white photographic print of unidentified individuals standing outside at Yoko Takahashi’s wedding. Two women dressed in dark colored kimono's flag the bride dressed in a light kimono with a large print and white vail, all stand with their backs to the camera. Shiuko Sakai, the donor, met Yoko around 1947-1948 when Donor was billeted …

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img Yoko Takahashi's wedding (ddr-one-2-139)

Black and white photographic print of unidentified individuals standing outside at Yoko Takahashi’s wedding. Two women stand with their backs to the camera, one dressed in a kimono the other in a western style coat. Yoko's head is visible between their shoulders. Shiuko Sakai, the donor, met Yoko around 1947-1948 when Donor was billeted at an …

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img Japanese man instructs maid on chores (ddr-densho-299-47)

Caption on reverse: "FEC-48-3063. 23 April 1948 / Living standards in Japan: / This photograph of Japanese home life / is to be used in a S & S feature story / on the living standards throughout Japan. / Mr. Miyata, who lives with his son, a / Japanese harp maker, in Chuo-Ku, Tokyo, / Japan, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-47/

img Buddhist Golden Jubilee (ddr-sbbt-3-13)

Group photograph outside the Buddhist Church of San Francisco for the Buddhist Golden Jubilee.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-3-13/

doc Letters from Megumi Sasaki, Naoji Okine, Miyuki Okine to Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine, April, 1948 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-243)

Contains three letters to Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine from his relatives in Hiroshima Japan and one envelope. The letters are written by Megumi Sasaki, Naoji Okine, and Miyuki Okine and enclosed in the same envelope. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_02_74_001-004

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Collection Frank C. Hirahara Collection (ddr-one-1)

Photographs taken by Frank C. Hirahara during the post-war resettlement years in Portland, Oregon. This collection includes over 1500 photographic prints, negatives, and 35mm color slides along with personal artifacts and other historical records. These newly discovered images focus on missing facets of Portland’s Japanese American community from 1948 - 1954, as well as Hirahara’s award …

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img Japanese nurse bandages injured infant (ddr-densho-299-43)

Caption on reverse: "FEC-48-5608. 30 June 48 / Medical aid for earthquake: / A Japanese first aid attendent puts / the finishing touches to the bandage / which she has placed around this / Japanese infant's injured head. The / earthquake, worst Japanese post war / disaster, struck merclessly [sic] late / in the afternoon og …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-43/

img Refugees walking past rubbled remains of town (ddr-densho-299-41)

Caption on reverse: "FEC-48-5614. 30 June 48 / Quake rocks Fukui: / Refugees from the June 28, 1948 / earthquake which struck the city / of Fukui, Japan, and 39 other / neighboring villages, move along / the roads leading out of the / stricken area, in hopes of finding / a new home. The quake …

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img A boy sitting in the rubble of his house after an earthquake (ddr-densho-299-14)

Caption on reverse: "FEC-48-5497. 29 June 48 / Quake rocks southern coast of Japan: / playing with dirt on the spot where his house / once stood this Japanese child, too / young to realize what has happen [sic], is / undisturbed by the horrow which sur- / rounds him. The quake which struck / on …

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vh Kay Yatabe Interview (ddr-ajah-1-9)

Sansei female. Born April 16, 1948 in Berkeley, California. During World War II, parents were incarcerated at the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After the war, the family returned to the Bay Area, and Kay grew up in El Cerrito, California, where parents ran a shoe repair shop. Attended UC Berkeley …

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Narrator Tom Akashi

Nisei male. Born June 7, 1929, in Merced, California. Grew up in Mount Eden, California, and was removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Incarcerated at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah, then moved to Tule Lake concentration camp after family volunteered to move to Japan. While at Tule Lake, …

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/178/

doc Letter from Chester L. Fordney, Deputy Director, Service Recognition Board, to Mr. George H. Nakamura, June 29, 1948 (ddr-csujad-55-2406)

Correspondence from Chester Fordney to George Hideo Nakamura regarding Nakamura's claim. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2512

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2406/