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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 22 No. 24 (June 15, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-24)

Selected article titles: "442nd to Be Deactivated on Return to U.S. Japanese American Regiment Parades for Last Time in Italy as Sailing Date Nears" (p. 1), "California Court Declares Anti-Alien Fishing Law Invalid. Los Angeles Justice Rules Ban on Japanese Fishermen Violates U.S. Constitution" (p. 1), "California Supreme Court Will Rule on Alien Land Act" (p. …

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doc Inspection card (immigrants and steerage passengers) (ddr-csujad-38-533)

An inspection card for Koyuta Masukawa. She boarded on the ship, Seattle Maru, in Kobe, Japan, on September 7, 1909, and arrived in San Francisco, California. and was inspected on September 27, 1909 by U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service presumably in Presidio, California, prior to Angel Island Immigration Station's operation. It also includes a …

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img Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-307)

A page from a photo album including Japanese family photographs. Pasted on the page are family photographs including Japanese men, women, and children. One photograph captures a birthday party for a Japanese American female child in July 1943. Another photograph captures a group of Japanese American female children taken in summer 1927. Photographs also include the …

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doc Letter from Sojiro Nishimura to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, December 24, [1945] [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-114)

A greeting letter from Munejiro Nishimura in Gardena, California to Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine in Hawthorne, California. In the letter, he thanks them for a Christmas gift and informs that he and his family has been staying in a house provided by a Caucasian friend who is supportive to the Japanese. The arrival date and place …

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doc Letter from [Ayame] May Okine to Mr. Makoto Okine, October 22, 1946 (ddr-csujad-5-173)

A letter from Ayame May Okine in Chicago to her brother-in-law, Makoto Okine in Whittier, California. She expresses her delight about her husband's returning home from Japan and updates on their lives including traveling to New York and visiting her sister in New Jersey. She also expresses that she is awaiting for the day when Masao …

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img Kotzebue Friends Church church service (ddr-csujad-57-3)

Interior view of the Kotzebue Friends Church, of Kotzebue, Alaska. A group of children sit in rows on benches, while a woman stands before them. All are wearing warm winter clothes. This church was established as a mission of the First Friends Church, of Whittier, California. Verso: [Stamped] Harry Haworth Photography / P. O. Box 575 …

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av Edwin (Ed) Sasaki oral history interview (ddr-csujad-9-1)

Oral history interview of Edwin (Ed) Sasaki, a professor of the Psychology Department, conducted by the Public History Institute at California State University, Bakersfield. Professor Sasaki was born in Sacramento, California, in November 1940 and grew up in Weiser, Idaho. He recollects his family's experiences during the World War II, being arrested as a suspect and …

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av Alice Uyeda Interview (ddr-densho-400-23)

Alice Uyeda was born on February 19, 1920, in Baldwin Park, California. Alice was the youngest of three children to Buhei and Sawaye Ito. Her father was a truck farmer in Baldwin Park. On December 7, 1941, when World War II broke out, Alice was working in Glendale, California. She and her family went to Utah …

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av Yoshi Inose Interview (ddr-densho-400-6)

Yoshi Inose was born on September 24, 1908, in Los Angeles, California. She was one of three children, and her parents' names were Seijiro and Soko Shibuya. Her father was a lawyer and the first publisher for the Rafu Shimpo and her mother was a koto instructor. After World War II broke out, the family was …

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vh David Matsuoka Interview (ddr-densho-1010-5)

Nisei male. Born December 21, 1929, in Walnut Grove, California. Grew up in Walnut Grove where father owned and operator a shoe sales and repair business. During World War II, removed with family to the Merced Assembly Center, California, and Granada concentration camp, Colorado. Returned to California as a high school student.

(This material is based …

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vh Mollie Nakasaki Interview (ddr-jamsj-2-4)

Nisei female. Born November 17, 1930, in Salinas, California. Grew up in Salinas's Japantown community before moving to various towns in California after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Removed to Poston concentration camp, Colorado. Left camp with family for Denver, Colorado, in 1945 before returning to California and establishing the Mandarin Restaurant in San Jose's Japantown. …

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vh Miyuki Yasui Interview (ddr-one-7-28)

Nisei female. Born September 18, 1926, in South Pasadena, California. Grew up in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Attended college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after leaving camp. Eventually married and moved to Portland, Oregon.

(This material is based upon work …

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview (ddr-one-7-35)

Nisei male. Born in Galt, California. Grew up in Hollister, California. During World War II, removed to the Salinas Assembly Center, California, and the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Drafted into the military and served with the Counterintelligence Corps in Japan during the U.S. occupation. After service, joined family in Ontario, Oregon.

(This material is based upon …

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vh Kenneth Narahara Interview (ddr-ajah-1-2)

Sansei male. Born December 16, 1936, in Oakland, California. Grew up in Alameda, California, where parents had a florist business. Immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were forced to leave Alameda, so the family split up and moved to Oakland. Removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. …

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vh Thomas Shigekuni Interview (ddr-densho-1000-297)

Nisei male. Born August 4, 1929, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles where parents ran a nursery business. During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada concentration camp, Colorado. After leaving camp, lived briefly in Illinois before returning to California.

(This material is based upon work …

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vh Betty Tanakatsubo Interview (ddr-densho-1000-343)

Nisei female. Born June 15, 1925, in Sacramento, California. During World War II, removed to the Sacramento Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Transferred to the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. Left camp for Cleveland, Ohio, and worked for the War Relocation Authority. Eventually settled in Chicago, Illinois.

(This material is based …

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vh Grace Shinoda Nakamura Interview (ddr-densho-1003-8)

Nisei female. Born February 18, 1927, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, lived for a time in Colorado before returning to California. After the war, became a teacher and an artist.

(This material is based upon work assisted by …

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vh Jeff Furumura Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-533)

Sansei male. Born November 23, 1950, in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, father was in a tuberculosis sanitarium, then was taken to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and mother was sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Parents met in Chicago, Illinois, after leaving the camps. …

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vh Jeff Furumura Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-539)

Sansei male. Born November 23, 1950, in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, father was in a tuberculosis sanitarium, then was taken to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and mother was sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Parents met in Chicago, Illinois, after leaving the camps. …

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vh Paul Nagano Interview (ddr-densho-1000-65)

Sansei male. Born, June 17, 1920, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in "Little Tokyo," and the Boyle Heights area. During World War II, was removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Became ordained as a Baptist minister while incarcerated, ministering to fellow camp inmates and leading ecumenical worship services in camp. Left Poston to attend …

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Supplement Series 294 (April 12, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-505)

Selected article titles: "California Relocatees I.D. Cards Necessary" (p. 1), "Proper Packing of Household Goods" (p. 1), "Typists, Stenographers, Diet Aid-Waitresses Urgently Needed" (p. 1).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 13 No. 149 (January 1941) (ddr-pc-13-1)

Selected article titles: "Reply to Gillette's Charges" (p. 1), "Year of Snake" (p. 1), "Civil Rights in California" (p. 3), "Dedicated to Our Farmers" (p. 6).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 114, No. 22 (June 5, 1992) (ddr-pc-64-22)

Select article titles: "Rising Controversy" (p. 1); "President Bush names 7 Nikkei to Civil Liberties board" (p. 1). "California civil rights bill passes Assembly" (p. 3).

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doc Rohwer Outpost Vol. V No. 46 (December 2, 1944) (ddr-densho-143-224)

Selected article titles: "Bond Drives Begins: To be Sponsored by U.S.O." (p. 1), "Leaves Center for California" (p. 1), "Parents Learn of Son's Death" (p. 1).

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doc Letter (with envelope) to Mollie Wilson from Lillian (Nobie) Igasaki (March 31, 1944) (ddr-janm-1-51)

Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from Lillian (Nobie) Igasaki (March 31, 1944). Envelope is postmarked April 1, 1944 from the Manzanar Incarceration Camp in Manzanar, California.

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