1518 items
1518 items

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Japanese-owned farm recently sold (ddr-densho-151-121)
Original caption: Near Centerville, Alameda County, California. Japanese berry farm transferred to a Yugoslavian in United States since 1913.

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Mas Takano Interview (ddr-ajah-1-5)
Nisei male. Born June 15, 1932, in Alameda, California. Grew up in Alameda, where father was a gardener. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, moved to Cortez, California, for a few months before being removed to the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. After leaving camp, returned to California. Drafted into the …

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Mary Higake Hasegawa (ddr-ajah-8-3)
Mary Higake Hasegawa was born on May 12, 1921, in Alameda, California. In 1939, she was sent to Japan to live with relatives, and spent World War II in Tokyo and Fukushima. After the war, returned to Alameda.

Narrator Michael Yoshii
Sansei male. Born August 10, 1952, in Berkeley, California. Graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in social welfare. Attended the Pacific School of Religion and graduated with an MDiv. Appointed full-time pastor to the Buena Vista United Methodist Church in Alameda, California, in 1988. Served as pastor for more than thirty years, leading the church's …

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Jo Takata Interview (ddr-ajah-1-6)
Sansei female. Born January 16, 1944, at the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After leaving camp, the family returned to Alameda, California, where they had lived before World War II. Jo grew up in Alameda and became a high school teacher. Involved with the Buena Vista United Methodist Church and numerous other Japanese American community activities in …

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Home movie footage of the wedding of Ron Tsuchiya and Dorienne Ouye (ddr-ajah-3-351)
Home movie footage of the wedding of Alameda Buddhist Temple member Ron Tsuchiya and Dorienne Ouye of Oakland, California. The wedding took place at a church in Berkeley, California.



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Kenneth Narahara Interview Segment 10 (ddr-ajah-1-2-10)
Father's postwar gardening and landscaping business

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Kenneth Narahara Interview Segment 2 (ddr-ajah-1-2-2)
Father's childhood growing up in family's hotel

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Kenneth Narahara Interview Segment 17 (ddr-ajah-1-2-17)
Grandparent's and parents' role in Alameda in the early 1900s


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Kenneth Narahara Interview Segment 7 (ddr-ajah-1-2-7)
Living in a hostel in Oakland after leaving camp


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Kenneth Narahara Interview Segment 12 (ddr-ajah-1-2-12)
Serving in the military for two years and then attending business college

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Kenneth Narahara Interview Segment 4 (ddr-ajah-1-2-4)
Family split up after the bombing of Pearl Harbor; memories of the Tanforan Assembly Center

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Kenneth Narahara Interview Segment 5 (ddr-ajah-1-2-5)
The train ride to Topaz and first impressions of camp

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Kenneth Narahara Interview Segment 1 (ddr-ajah-1-2-1)
Family history: grandparents' immigration to the United States

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Kenneth Narahara Interview Segment 9 (ddr-ajah-1-2-9)
Attending high school, participating in sports




