69 items
69 items
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 49 (ddr-densho-1000-164-49)
Mother's postwar life in San Francisco, California
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 40 (ddr-densho-1000-164-40)
An emotional reunion with father on ship bound for Japan
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-164-20)
Memories of father's friend who was shot and killed by a sentry in camp
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-164-7)
Mother's role raising five children, taking odd jobs to supplement family income
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-164-26)
Arrival at Tule Lake, witnessing confusion as many people are arriving and leaving
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-164-19)
Attending school in camp, interviewing school faculty as class reporter
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-164-31)
Joining father's organization, the Kenkyu Seinen Dan: shaving head, forming a bugle corps, and marching in drills
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-164-9)
Memories of the bombing of Pearl Harbor: after attending church, helping father burn possessions related to Japan
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-164-23)
Father decides to volunteer to go to Japan, wife and children insist on accompanying him
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 37 (ddr-densho-1000-164-37)
Witnessing the frenzy of people applying to renounce their U.S. citizenship
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-164-22)
Father vocally protests conditions in camp, and is questioned by FBI regarding allegations made against him
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-164-13)
Preparing for mass removal: "It was panic and chaos"
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-164-8)
Growing up in a neighborhood with kids of other ethnicities: "you're conscious that you're Japanese and you're different"
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-164-14)
The day of mass removal, receiving aid from a Jewish man
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 48 (ddr-densho-1000-164-48)
Mother and siblings eventually return to live in United States, father chooses to remain in Japan for rest of his life
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 32 (ddr-densho-1000-164-32)
Hearing about the murder of a suspected informant in camp
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-164-28)
Father forms a small group to propose to the camp administration the idea of "resegregating" Tule Lake, separating the pro-Japanese factions from everyone else
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-164-30)
Formation of the Sokoku Kenkyu Seinen Dan, the Young Men's Association for the Study of the Motherland
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 29 (ddr-densho-1000-164-29)
Father circulates a petition to support his resegregation idea after the camp administration rejects it; obtains 6,500 signatures
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-164-38)
Mother communicates via coded letters to try to discover father's whereabouts after his removal from Tule Lake
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-164-3)
After immigrating to the United States, father attends school to learn English, then graduates from college in three years
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-164-25)
Talking with father on journey to Tule Lake concentration camp, the so-called "segregation camp"