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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 10 (ddr-one-7-48-10)

Memories of "evacuation day"

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 8 (ddr-one-7-48-8)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 11 (ddr-one-7-48-11)

First impressions of Tule Lake

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 18 (ddr-one-7-48-18)

Reflections

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 17 (ddr-one-7-48-17)

Raising a family

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 9 (ddr-one-7-48-9)

Witnessing FBI raid of family home

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img A group of friends standing on a staircase (ddr-densho-298-77)

Caption in album: "Sunday Morning After An All-Nite Card Session. Mary Akigama, Emma and Mary Kuwahara."

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Narrator Mas Akiyama

Nisei male. Born May 19, 1917, in Eastport, Idaho, and spent childhood in Spokane, Washington. In 1933 traveled to Japan with family where father became ill and died. Attended school in Japan for three years and then returned to Spokane in 1936 and worked on a farm. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, volunteered for military …

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Narrator Sab Akiyama

Nisei male. Born April 7, 1924, in Oak Grove, Oregon. Grew up in the Hood River, Oregon, area, where parents ran a farm. During World War II, was removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army during the …

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img Obon Festival (ddr-one-1-276)

Black and white photographic negative of two men sitting and looking beyond the camera, Obon dancers perform behind. Man on the right identified as Mr. Akiyama. Obon is an annual event hosted by the Oregon Buddhist Church (now known as Oregon Buddhist Temple) and attended by the wider Nikkei community.

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 6 (ddr-one-7-59-6)

Foods eaten at home

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 10 (ddr-one-7-59-10)

Graduating from high school in camp

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 5 (ddr-one-7-59-5)

Childhood memories: Japanese language school and family trips

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 16 (ddr-one-7-59-16)

Reflections

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 7 (ddr-one-7-59-7)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 12 (ddr-one-7-59-12)

Returning to Hood River, hearing about discrimination

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-59-3)

Living in a log cabin as a child

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 1 (ddr-one-7-59-1)

Family background

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 13 (ddr-one-7-59-13)

Meeting future husband and getting married

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 14 (ddr-one-7-59-14)

Remarriage after husband's passing

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 11 (ddr-one-7-59-11)

Leaving camp to attend sewing school

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 4 (ddr-one-7-59-4)

Attending school and bringing Japanese food for lunch

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 8 (ddr-one-7-59-8)

Taking the train to the Pinedale Assembly Center

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 2 (ddr-one-7-59-2)

Parents' prewar farming: purchasing land with the help of a family friend

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vh Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry Interview Segment 9 (ddr-one-7-59-9)

First seeing Minidoka: "Is this where I'm going to be for the rest of my life?"

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