Search Results | Densho Digital Repository

vh George Hanada Interview Segment 3 (ddr-jamsj-2-5-3)

Losing mother at a young age; change in family dynamics

This interview was conducted by the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, and is part of a project entitled "Lasting Stories: The Resettlement of San Jose Japantown," a collaborative project between the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and Densho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-2-5-3/

vh James Sakamoto Interview Segment 12 (ddr-jamsj-2-1-12)

Returning to the Santa Clara Valley after World War II

This interview was conducted by the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, and is part of a project entitled "Lasting Stories: The Resettlement of San Jose Japantown," a collaborative project between the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and Densho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-2-1-12/

vh James Sakamoto Interview Segment 11 (ddr-jamsj-2-1-11)

Finding work after camp and serving in the military

This interview was conducted by the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, and is part of a project entitled "Lasting Stories: The Resettlement of San Jose Japantown," a collaborative project between the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and Densho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-2-1-11/

vh James Sakamoto Interview Segment 21 (ddr-jamsj-2-1-21)

Rewards and difficulties involved in running a Japantown business

This interview was conducted by the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, and is part of a project entitled "Lasting Stories: The Resettlement of San Jose Japantown," a collaborative project between the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and Densho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-2-1-21/

vh Fred Matsumura Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-46-2)

Parents' backgrounds

This interview was conducted at the 1998 Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans National Convention, held in Honolulu, Hawaii. Given the full conference schedule, interviews conducted at the reunion were shorter in length than typical Densho interviews. Beverly Kashino, one of the interviewers, is Shiro and Louise Kashino's daughter.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-46-2/

vh Fred Matsumura Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-46-34)

Reflections

This interview was conducted at the 1998 Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans National Convention, held in Honolulu, Hawaii. Given the full conference schedule, interviews conducted at the reunion were shorter in length than typical Densho interviews. Beverly Kashino, one of the interviewers, is Shiro and Louise Kashino's daughter.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-46-34/

Collection B. Shibayama Collection (ddr-densho-106)

The B. Shibayama collection consists of photographs from the personal family collection of Betty Morita Shibayama, who was interviewed by Densho in 2003. The photographs document Betty's life in prewar Hood River, Oregon, her experiences in Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, and her involvement in the fight for redress for Japanese Latin Americans.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-106/

Collection Mae Hara Collection (ddr-densho-308)

The Mae Hara Collection is comprised of photographs and documents from the personal family collection of Mae Hara, a Japanese American who was interview by Densho in 2004. The photos depict Mae's prewar life in Seattle, Washington. The documents concern her family's Oyster business pre-war, relocation to Minidoka, and post war life.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-308/

Collection Grant Hirabayashi Collection (ddr-densho-127)

The Grant Hirabayashi Collection features five photographs and documents from the personal collection of Grant Hirabayshi, who was interviewed by Densho in 2006. The collection focuses on Mr. Hirabayashi's work as one of the famed Merrill's Marauders during World War II and as an interpreter and translator during the U.S. occupation of Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-127/

Collection Minidoka Irrigator Collection (ddr-densho-119)

This collection consists of selected issues of the Minidoka Irrigator, a newspaper published by the inmates at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. The paper was published from 1942 until 1945. Many of the issues are originals, and were donated to Densho by Cherry Kinoshita, who was on the staff of the Irrigator.

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

av Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice (ddr-densho-1024-31)

Documentary film on the life of Minoru Yasui (1916–86) made by his daughter, Holly Yasui. Never Give Up! covers Yasui's life in a straightforward chronological fashion beginning with his early life in Hood River, Oregon, law school and involvement with the Japanese American Citizens League , his and his family's wartime incarceration, his legal challenge of …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-31/

av Day of Remembrance (ddr-densho-1024-30)

Documentary film by Cynthia Gates Fujikawa consisting of highlights from 2003 Day of Remembrance (DoR) commemorations in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu, all of which highlight the parallels between what happened to Japanese Americans in 1942 and what was then happening to Arab and Muslim Americans in the aftermath of the 9/11 …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-30/

av Wyoming Chronicle: Aura Newlin Japanese Americans in Wyoming (ddr-densho-1024-5)

Aura Newlin, a Northwest College faculty member and board member of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, talks about her family history as a fourth generation Japanese American and a fourth generation Wyomingite, then takes the viewer on a tour of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center , telling the story of the forced removal and incarceration and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-5/

av Topaz, The Chessmen (ddr-densho-1024-27)

Short narrative film about Japanese Americans struggling to run a flower nursery set in Northern California in 1949. Based on a short story by Toshio Mori , filmmaker Ken Kokka made the film as a film student at UCLA. As the story begins, Mas, a middle-aged Nisei man who had lost his nursery as a result …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-27/

av Time of Fear (ddr-densho-1024-95)

Documentary film that provides an overview of the Japanese American World War II incarceration experience with a focus on the two camps in Arkansas, Jerome and Rohwer. Time of Fear tells its story using archival still and moving images—including home movie footage of Jerome taken by Akira and Yoshio Hayashi—along with recreations and interviews with Japanese …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-95/

av Interview with Don Oka, Steve Yagi, and Shigeo Ito, part 8 of 8; interview with Nobuo Yamashita, part 1 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1776)

Oka is on the left, Yagi in the center, and Ito on the right. Oka discusses his recovery from tuberculosis, entering and winning a cartoon contest, going to art school after recovery, starting to work in advertising, returning to cartooning after retirement, and serving in JICPOA, and working with white officers. Yagi discusses working in the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1776/

av Interview with Gary and Grace Itano, part 2 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1806)

Grace discusses working with her husband-to-be before the war, her husband asking for a divorce (knowing that he would be imprisoned for refusing to serve), her husband Henry's reasons for refusing to serve, her husband's family preventing him from going to college, trying and failing to live outside of camp in Arizona, evacuation and closing her …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1806/

Hollywood Judo Dojo footage, part 3 of 3; interview with Paul Minerich, Tim Nomiyama, Masao Kataoka, and Kenjiro Hayakawa, part 1 of 8 (ddr-densho-1007-1798)

av Hollywood Judo Dojo footage, part 3 of 3; interview with Paul Minerich, Tim Nomiyama, Masao Kataoka, and Kenjiro Hayakawa, part 1 of 8 (ddr-densho-1007-1798)

From start of tape until 3:00, footage of Frank Emi and Gary (last name unknown) sparring at the Hollywood Judo Dojo. Interview with (from left to right) Paul Minerich, Tim Nomiyama, Masao Kataoka and Kenjiro Hayakawa starts at 3:08. Nomiyama, Kataoka and Hayakawa were part of the "DB Boys", Nisei soldiers who were court-martialed for disobeying …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1798/

Interview with Paul Minerich, Tim Nomiyama, Masao Kataoka, and Kenjiro Hayakawa, part 8 of 8; interview with Gary and Grace Itano, part 1 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1805)

av Interview with Paul Minerich, Tim Nomiyama, Masao Kataoka, and Kenjiro Hayakawa, part 8 of 8; interview with Gary and Grace Itano, part 1 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1805)

From left to right: Minerich, Nomiyama, Kataoka, Hayakawa. Kataoka discusses his hopes for the future, his feelings on Abraham Lincoln, and sneaking a letter from Hugh Nozawa to President Roosevelt out of camp. Minerich discusses the hearings that had taken place shortly before this interview at the Pentagon. Nomiyama discusses how he felt after the hearings …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1805/

av Roger Daniels interviewed by Kent Hori, part 4 of 4; interview with John Kaneko, part 1 of 3 (ddr-densho-1007-1759)

Daniels discusses the early successes of the Japanese army, the political justifications for relocation, why German and Italian Americans were not vilified in the same way, and the lack of support for Japanese Americans politically, culturally, and legally. Includes audio from reaction shots of Daniels and Hori, as well as recordings of Hori asking standalone questions. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1759/

Collection Matsumoto Collection (ddr-densho-107)

The Matsumoto collection consists of photographs from the personal family collection of Ranger Roy H. Matsumoto, who was interviewed by Densho in 2003. Mr. Matsumoto was one of the famed Merrill's Marauders, and the photographs depict aspects of his life from his childhood in California through his induction into the Ranger Hall of Fame.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-107/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 35 No. 25 (December 19, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-51)

Selected article titles: "The JACL Decade" (p. 2), "The End of Racial Exclusions" (p. 4), "Is the JACL on the Right Track?" (p. 27). The holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and chapters that included personal addresses and phone numbers to better foster communications between Japanese American communities. These addresses and phone numbers have …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-24-51/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 35 No. 26 (December 26, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-52)

Selected article titles: "Issei-Nisei still unaware of advantages of new nationality act" (p. 1), "'54 JACL convention date, site set" (p. 1). The this issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and chapters that included personal addresses and phone numbers to better foster communications between Japanese American communities. These addresses and phone numbers have been redacted …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-24-52/

av Goro Sumida interviewed by Eric Saul, part 2 of 2 (ddr-densho-1007-1766)

Sumida discusses his family, visiting his family at Rohwer, his impressions of camp, his time in basic training, war stories from Germany, the awards he received after the war, and whether he considers himself lucky. This interview was not conducted specifically for Loni Ding's work, rather for a book the Presidio was putting together. Partial transcript …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1766/

doc Euphemistic and Accurate Terminology (ddr-densho-1007-1814)

Raymond Y. Okamura's testimony to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in Seattle Washington on September 11, 1981 describing policies and terminology used by the U.S. government to enforce wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. He compares the American government's misleading terminology to that of Nazi propaganda. It was later published by the Journal …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1814/

Filters