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Two school girls (ddr-densho-321-655)
img Two school girls (ddr-densho-321-655)
Caption in album: "Kiku / Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan." Kiku on right.
Family traveling back to Japan (ddr-densho-321-919)
img Family traveling back to Japan (ddr-densho-321-919)
Caption in album: "Mom leaving for Japan / Kiku / Born: Napa, California / 1907 / Spent 10 years in / Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan."
School photo (ddr-densho-321-924)
img School photo (ddr-densho-321-924)
Caption in album: "Good Ol' School Days / Kiku Fujii's class in Hakata, / Fukuoka, Japan / 1913-1921."
Korean Parade (ddr-densho-397-333)
img Korean Parade (ddr-densho-397-333)
The caption in the photo album reads "A Korean Parade at Fukuoka City 1 Mar '47". Takashi Matsui was stationed in Japan with the U.S. military during the Allied occupation of Japan after the end of World War II.
Tsuchino Forrester Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-439-1)
vh Tsuchino Forrester Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-439-1)
Born in Fukuoka, Japan (Japanese language)

This interview was conducted in Japanese. The transcript provided is an English translation.

Wedding party (ddr-densho-259-510)
img Wedding party (ddr-densho-259-510)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Wedding party of Eiko Yamaki [Tadakuma] and Tomonori Tom Morikado of Los Angeles The directory, Japanese-Americans of the Mid-Columbia Area and Relatives, states the Morikado was an Issei, born in Fukuoka ken, Japan."

Narrator Kimi Ogami

Shin-Issei female. Born January 4, 1928, in Fukuoka, Japan. Lived in Japan during World War II. Met husband in Japan, married, and immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s.
Tsuchino Forrester Interview (ddr-densho-1000-439)
vh Tsuchino Forrester Interview (ddr-densho-1000-439)
Shin-Issei female. Born March 30, 1931, in Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan. Grew up in Kasuga where parents ran a farm. Graduated from a girl's high school during the U.S. occupation of Japan. Met future husband, a U.S. serviceman, and immigrated to the United States as a "war bride."

(This interview was conducted in Japanese. The transcript provided …

Tomiye Terasaki Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-122-2)
vh Tomiye Terasaki Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-122-2)
Moving to Japan at age three, living in Fukuoka and Tokyo, Japan (Japanese language)

This interview was conducted in Japanese. It was translated so as to convey Mrs. Terasaki's way of speaking as closely as possible. For example, there are instances in which she makes some grammatical errors. These mistakes are conveyed through similar grammatical errors …

Takashi Matsui Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1008-4-21)
vh Takashi Matsui Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1008-4-21)
Visiting relatives in occupied Japan: traveling by train to Fukuoka with Japanese citizens

Members of the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) arranged for and conducted this interview in conjunction with Densho.

Narrator Tsuchino Forrester

Shin-Issei female. Born March 30, 1931 in Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan. Grew up in Kasuga where parents ran a farm. Graduated from a girl's high school during the U.S. occupation of Japan. Met future husband, a U.S. serviceman, and immigrated to the United States as a "war bride."
Large statue (ddr-densho-326-238)
img Large statue (ddr-densho-326-238)
Caption: Fukuoka / Nov. 5; Nichiren Shonen statue
Family portrait (ddr-densho-359-1147)
img Family portrait (ddr-densho-359-1147)
The caption written on the bottom of the photograph is "Fukuoka April 1954". Jeanette Otsuka is second from right.
Men and women in front of shrine (ddr-densho-359-517)
img Men and women in front of shrine (ddr-densho-359-517)
A father meets his daughter's father-in-law. Japanese text on back of photo: far left: Hidegoro Otsuka, second from right, Kaichi Kawamoto
Group pose in front of house (ddr-densho-359-582)
img Group pose in front of house (ddr-densho-359-582)
The caption beneath the photograph in the album states "The new house in Japan 1928". Ichino and Hidegoro Otsuka stand in back
Family portrait (ddr-densho-359-1634)
img Family portrait (ddr-densho-359-1634)
Roy Otsuka is on far left, front row, next to his parents, Hidegoro and Ichino Otsuka, and his wife Kimiko
Married couple (ddr-densho-359-1630)
img Married couple (ddr-densho-359-1630)
The caption written on the photograph "Golden Wedding Anniversary Nov. 1946". Hidegoro and Ichino Otsuka
School portrait (ddr-densho-359-573)
img School portrait (ddr-densho-359-573)
The stamp of the photograph studio in the bottom left hand corner of photograph says "S. Karube Fukuoka".
Letter from Juji Hada to Mrs. Margaret Gunderson, May 25, 1946 (ddr-csujad-55-249)
doc Letter from Juji Hada to Mrs. Margaret Gunderson, May 25, 1946 (ddr-csujad-55-249)
Correspondence from Juji Hada to Margaret Gunderson regarding an explosion that occurred on May 20, 1946 in Japan. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0251
Juji Hada (ddr-csujad-55-250)
img Juji Hada (ddr-csujad-55-250)
Black and white photograph of Juji Hada standing next sign at Kitagata Racetrack in Japan. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0252
Sumiko M. Yamamoto Interview (ddr-densho-1000-269)
vh Sumiko M. Yamamoto Interview (ddr-densho-1000-269)
Nisei female. Born May 12, 1925, in Spreckels, California. Moved frequently with family as a child, eventually settling in Gilroy, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Salinas Assembly Center, California, and the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Following father's desire to repatriate to Japan, transferred to Tule Lake concentration camp, California, when it …
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