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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview (ddr-densho-1000-270)
Nisei male. Born June 3, 1923, in Marysville, California. Grew up in Marysville, California, eventually moving to Gridley, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, removed with family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Refused to sign the so-called "loyalty questionnaire," and was removed with most other young men in Tule …
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Narrator Jim M. Tanimoto
Nisei male. Born June 3, 1923, in Marysville, California. Grew up in Marysville, California, eventually moving to Gridley, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, removed with family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Refused to sign the so-called "loyalty questionnaire," and was removed with most other young men in Tule …
![Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-270-14)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/c1/3b/c13bee1c5833572797d184c01250a885.jpg)
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-270-14)
Watching people take lumber at nighttime to improve their barracks
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-270-1)
Origins of name, description of siblings
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-270-9)
Feeling a difference in the community after the bombing of Pearl Harbor: "basically everything changed"
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-270-15)
Working on construction crew in camp
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-270-26)
A personal experience with discrimination upon returning home
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-270-4)
Three oldest siblings sent to live in Japan
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-270-22)
Having an informal hearing, still refusing to sign the so-called "loyalty questions"
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-270-11)
Arranging for a German family to take care of farmland during the war
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-270-19)
Being jailed for refusing to sign the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-270-24)
Released back to home in Gridley before exclusion zone was lifted
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-270-16)
Reasons for refusing to sign the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-270-7)
Attending picnics and church functions
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-270-27)
Establishing a successful kiwi-growing operation after the war
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-270-12)
Having to leave farm a week before harvesting crops
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-270-13)
Arriving in Tule Lake and being surprised to see desert land
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-270-20)
Imprisoned at the Tulelake Civilian Conservation Corps camp
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-270-21)
Realizing the seriousness of situation during a nighttime raid
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-270-23)
Being released back to concentration camp
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-270-8)
Memories of playing with a shotgun as a boy
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Jim M. Tanimoto Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-270-17)
Picked up as part of a large group for refusing to sign the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"
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