Search Results | Densho Digital Repository

Japs With Swastikas Seized Here. One Hundred Lapel Pins Confiscated By Raiders. Buttons Believed 5th-Column Identification in Case of Invasion of Seattle; Two Germans Arrested. Army Acquires Site for Evacuee Center. (March 8, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-675)

doc Japs With Swastikas Seized Here. One Hundred Lapel Pins Confiscated By Raiders. Buttons Believed 5th-Column Identification in Case of Invasion of Seattle; Two Germans Arrested. Army Acquires Site for Evacuee Center. (March 8, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-675)

The Seattle Daily Times, March 8, 1942, pp. 1, 5

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-675/

Collection Mihara Collection (ddr-densho-140)

The Mihara Collection features photographs of the Mihara family as well as the personal correspondence written by Genji Mihara to his wife during his World War II imprisonment in various detention camps. Mihara, a prominent Issei leader of the Japanese American community, was arrested immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-140/

Narrator Art Shibayama

Nisei male. Born June 6, 1930, in Callao, Peru. Grew up in Peru, raised by both parents and grandparents. During World War II, taken with parents to the United States on a U.S. troop transport ship. Lived in the Crystal City internment camp, Texas, until family moved to work at Seabrook, New Jersey, a produce work …

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/149/

Narrator Hitoshi "Hank" Naito

Nisei male. Born April 20, 1926, in San Diego, California. Grew up in Terminal Island, California, where father was a fisherman. During World War II, removed with family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Family was transferred to Tule Lake in response to father's answers on the so-called …

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/489/

doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. IV No. 28 (December 15, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-117)

Selected article titles: "Final Photo Exhibit of Community Life" (p. 1), "Huge New Year Jamboree Planned by Rec. Co-ordinating Council" (p. 1), "Manzanar Report by WRA, War Department" (p. 1), "Orchestras to be Cleared at #2508" (p. 1), "Caution Against Bath Room Theft" (p. 1), "Administration to Center in Capital" (p. 1), "'__Develop Faith, Loyalty' Bennett" …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-65-117/

img Uichiro Ogura working on a relief memorializing Heihachiro Togo (ddr-njpa-4-1737)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "(Tokyo) May 7, 1935. Master craftsman Uichiro Ogura completed a relief sculpture which features army general Togo, who is recognized as a hero on the 27th. The 27th will memorialize the 30th anniversary of the Russo-Japanese War. Togo is with his staff officers on the warship Mikasa in the relief. This relief …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-njpa-4-1737/

img Shuhei Nishida (ddr-njpa-4-1435)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Domei photo, National News, No. 416. Pole-vaulter Nishida called. (Tokyo) August 23, 1938. World-famous Nishida received a call, and he is going to join the army as an engineer, with a pickaxe instead of a pole. Mr. Nishida worked in a division at Hitachi. While he worked there he practiced everything for …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-njpa-4-1435/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 26 (July 3, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-26)

Selected article titles: "JACL President Brands Dies Group Charges as Vicious Attack Upon Nisei Integrity" (p. 1), "Dies Group Opens Hearings on Japanese Americans. First Witness Asks for Segregation of Disloyal Elements in WRA Centers" (p. 1), "First Nisei Girl Accepted For Service in WAAC" (p. 1), "Luxury Foods Not Bought For Evacuees. Army Buyer Says …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-15-26/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 6 (August 14, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-31)

Selected article titles: "Canadian Nisei Aid War Effort In Relocation" (p. 1); "Nisei Girl Arrested on Return to Evacuated Area" (p. 1), "Women's Army Corps Being Recruiting Japanese American Girls Under New U.S. Policy" (p. 1), "Myer Reports 90 Percent of Evacuees Spurn Japanese Request for Repatriation" (p. 1), "Relocation Director Reveals Japanese American Aid in …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-15-31/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 17 (April 30, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-17)

Selected article titles: "Seattle to Dedicate Memorial to Nisei GIs" (p. 1), "Prejudice in San Francisco Against Nisei Group Told in Report to Mayor's Committee" (p. 1), "JACL Asks for Ending of Segregation in Army. Masaoka Urges Positive Action to Abolish Discrimination in United States Armed Forces" (p. 1), "Japan's Press Watches U.S. Move to Repeal …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-21-17/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 4 (January 29, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-4)

Selected article titles: "Report Evacuees Slow in Filing Claims for Evacuation Losses With Department of Justice" (p. 1), "Nisei in Japan May Enlist as U.S. Interpreter" (p. 1), "California Assembly Considers Bills to Outlaw Race Prejudice" (p. 1), "Social Scientists Study Effects Of Language School Reopening On Japanese in Hawaii" (p. 2), "Ashes May Be Sent …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-21-4/

doc Part IV. Collective adjustments to the relocation center, chapter I: social structure of the community (ddr-csujad-26-5)

Description of camp social structures including "Caucasian-Japanese relations" highlighting tension and hostility by three groups that most directly involve Japanese Americans and the incarceration: The War Relocation Authority (WRA), the US Army and the American public. Using case - studies, the manuscript examines these relationships and discusses the circumstances of incarceration contributing to differences in social …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-26-5/

img They made it! (ddr-csujad-47-20)

Photograph of the arrival of the first group of incarcerees at Manzanar. The car has a chain from its front bumper attached to the army truck in front of it. A photographer is standing to the right in front of a line of people. Two soldiers are looking toward the camera from the back of the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-20/

doc Letter from Jokichi Yamanaka to Mr. and Mrs. S. Okine, July 6, 1946 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-150)

A letter from Jokichi Yamanaka in Hiroshima, Japan to his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. He updates Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine on the Sasakis and the Nakanos in Japan. This letter is mailed by Masao Okine from Japan via San Francisco by U.S. Army Postal Service. The handwritten notes on the backside of the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-5-150/

doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 19 (November 18, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-152)

Selected article titles: "4,511 Persons Attend Arts, Craft Exhibit" (p. 1), "Blaze Damages Apartment While Occupants Away" (p. 1), "Several Recruited by Savage Language School Will Enroll for Army Class Starting Dec. 10" (p. 1), "Labor Board Raps Wire Fencing" (p. 2), "Mail Boxes Will Speed Delivery" (p. 3), "Chairs, Pianos Here for Project Use" (p. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-119-152/

doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. IV No. 26 (August 19, 1944) (ddr-densho-119-99)

Selected article titles: "10,000 Acre Ranger Fire Calls Out On, Off Duty Crew" (p. 1), "Alien Population Down to 3 Million" (p. 1), "Co-op Patronage Refunds Completed" (p. 1), "Tule Lake Visiting Restricted To Emergency Cases" (p. 1), "Inspector From Immigration Dept. Arrives Wednesday" (p. 1), "Tule Youth Struck by Coal Truck Dies" (p. 1), "Six …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-119-99/

doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. IV No. 40 (December 9, 1944) (ddr-densho-119-116)

Selected article titles: "Heavy Nisei Casualties Reported in Recent Fight" (p. 1), "Hood River Legion Scratches Names of Nisei in Army" (p. 1), "Gresham Organizes Anti-Japanese, Inc." (p. 1), "Chicago To Be Cultural Center of Nisei -- J. Brenton" (p. 1), "No Permits Needed By Aliens On Short Term Leave" (p. 1), "Marriages Must Be Reported …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-119-116/

doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 14 (May 29, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-41)

Selected article titles: "War Dep't. Action Opens Army Post Jobs to Nisei" (p. 1), "Center Residents to Vote Soon on Charter for Self-Government" (p. 1), "2nd U.S.-Japan Exchange of 1,500 Civilians Seen" (p. 2), "Arizona Protests Evacuee Influx Into Rich Lands" (p. 2), "95% of Those Relocated in Chicago Making Successful Readjustments, Survey by Advisory Group …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-119-41/

doc Manzanar Free Press Vol. III No. 14 (February 17, 1943) (ddr-densho-125-105)

Selected article titles: "Block Managers Hear Director" (p. 1), "Registration Questions and Their Answers" (p. 1), "Registration of Residents Nears Completion" (p. 1), "Shoe Ration to be Effected Here" (p. 1), "Eight Hundred Peru Japanese Interned" (p. 1), "WRA Opens Relocation and Field Stations. Action Announced After Series of Conferences Held in January" (p. 1), "Peace …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-125-105/

doc Daily Press Review, Vol. III, No. 5 (ddr-densho-156-206)

Article titles: "Ralph Advocates Use of Japanese Evacuees for Farm Labor"; "Germans, Italians are Aided on Coast"; "Infant Formula Kitchen Opens at Tule Lake Relocation Center"; "Population of Tule Lake Relocation Project Now 7,570"; "Seek to Alleviate Farm Labor Shortage"; First Baby Born at Tule Lake Relocation Project"; "Japanese Farm Labor Sought by Klamath Falls Agricultural …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-206/

doc Weekly Press Review No. 33 (ddr-densho-156-345)

Original summary excerpt: The Dies committee was the greatest source of news this week, with thirty new items and three editorials. The majority report of the subcommittee received considerable attention with varying degrees of stress laid upon the release of 23 alleged subversives and "negligence" of WRA. Two papers headlined the fact that Rep. Costello's report …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-345/

doc American Concentration Camps VOLUME 5 May, 1942 (ddr-densho-372-5)

Volume 5 divides into two sections. Description about this volume reads directly from the book as follows: The first half of volume 5 includes archival documents from May 1942 which show the Army making California and the other West Coast areas "free" of Japanese, as first the Assembly Centers and then the Relocation Centers began to …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-372-5/

img Japanese American pointing at Honor Roll sign (ddr-densho-37-748)

Original WRA caption: Fumi Onodera, 20, proudly points at the names of her 3 brothers, Kid, 26; Kaun, 24; and Satoru, 22, on the Honor Roll of Japanese-Americans serving in the U. S. Army from the Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. The 3 brothers are training in a combat team at Camp Shelby, Mississippi with other …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-748/

av George Kobayashi Interview (ddr-densho-400-13)

George Kobayashi was born on February 20, 1924, in Torrance, California. He was one of three children, and his parents' names were Tamechi and Yuko Kobayashi. His father was a farmer in Gardena and his mother was a housewife. When the war broke out, he and his family moved to Fort Lupton, Colorado. During the war …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-13/

img Ira C. Eaker leaving his plan, the "Yankee Doodle" (ddr-njpa-1-256)

Caption on reverse: "These Men Made First All-U.S. Raid on Nazi Europe. A dozen American Flying Fortresses, manned by United States Army Air Force crews and personally led by Brigadier General Ira C. Eaker, bombed Rouen, France, 87 miles northeast of Paris, in the first all-U.S. bombing attack on German-held Europe. Not a single American plane …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-njpa-1-256/

Filters

Narrator Art Shibayama

Narrator Hitoshi "Hank" Naito