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.
Selected article titles: "Race Issue in Hawaii Politics Raised in Rule" (p.1-2), History Project: Historical Documents Being Donated" (p.1), "17 Organizations to Honor Issei Elders at Huge Joint Dinner" (p.1), "1945-VE DAY-1965" (p.2), "Strawberry Grower Plows Under One Acre in Protest against Government Failure to Secure Field Labor" (p.3), "Public Schools Have until 1967 to Desegregate" …
Original caption: Japanese-American Chaplain. This newly-commissioned U.S. Army Chaplain is Lieut. Hiro Higuchi, a native of Hawaii, of Japanese parentage. He is now in training at Harvard, and is the second chaplain of Japanese ancestry to receive a commission in the U.S. Army Chaplains Corps. Higuchi is 36, married, and has a seven year old son. …
Caption on reverse: "NEA PRESIDENT HOLT ADDRESSES CHAMBER LUNCH: Dr. Andrew A. Holt, president of the National Education association, addressed a luncheon held in his honor Thursday noon at Queen's Surf by the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce. Above, left to right, are: Dr. W. Harold Loper, superintendent of public instruction; Dr. Holt, Dr. Gregg M. Sinclair, …
Caption on reverse: "PRESENTING TAX REPORT TO ACTING GOVERNOR: Chairman Earl W. Fase of the 16-member Governor's Advisory Committee on Taxation (right) this morning presented copies of its 61-Page Report to Acting Governor (Secretary of Hawaii) Col. Farrant L. Turner in the chief executive's chambers on the second floor of Iolani Palace. Looking on is the …
Nisei male. Born November 12, 1933, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Grew up in Honolulu, and was nine years old when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Father was arrested by the FBI, and family went to the concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas, to reunite with him. Transferred to Tule Lake, California, following the so-called "loyalty questionnaire." After the war, …
Nisei female. Born June 23, 1936, in Hilo, Hawaii. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, father was picked up by the FBI and detained at Sand Island internment camp, Hawaii. The rest of the family was removed to the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, to be reunited with him. After Jerome closed, transferred to …
Nisei female. Born March 25, 1928, in Hilo, Hawaii. Grew up in Hilo, where father worked for a Japanese-language newspaper. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was arrested and detained at the Kilauea Military Camp and Sand Island internment camp. After the war, attended the University of Hawaii, then returned to Hilo in 1950.
Selected article titles: "Hawaii Will Never Be Quite the Same Again. A Sociologist's View of the Island Situation" (p. 1), "The AJA's in Hawaii Unions" (p. 1), "An Anthropologist Speaks on Prejudice and the Nisei" (p. 2), "Mineo Katagiri: The Situation in the Hawaiian Islands. A Report to Continental America" (p. 2), "Toshio Mori: Time Out …
Nisei female. Born January 28, 1919, in Hilo, Hawaii. Grew up in Hilo before moving to Japan in 1934. Attended school in Japan, returning to Hilo before the outbreak of World War II. During the war, father was arrested and removed to the Kilauea Military Camp and Sand Island internment camps, Hawaii. During father's absence, took …
Caption on reverse: "JAPANESE FINANCE MINISTER HERE: Hayato Ikeda (third from left), head of the finance department of the Japanese government, arrived by Pan American at 7 a.m. today enroute to Washington to study economic conditions. He is on a three-week tour and while in Washington he will mainly meet with Secretary of the Treasury John …
Article title [translation]: "Higashi Honganji Abbot Otani. Party held to see off Otani. Several hundred people, including supervisors of other sects."
Caption on reverse: "A LEI FOR DR. BOWLES: Mrs. Hisaji Hattori, wife of the Japanese Consul General, presents a lei to Dr. Gilbert Bowles at a dinner honoring him on his 89th birthday. Among the 500 persons who attended the banquet were (left to right) Miss Virginia Bowles, granddaughter of Dr. Bowles; Mrs. Herbert Bowles, Dr. …
Caption on reverse: "FOUR ELECTIVE DEPARTMENT HEADS INSTALLED: Above are the four elective city-county department heads who were installed into office Tuesday noon. They are, left to right: Leon K. Sterling, clerk; Leonard K. Fong, auditor; Duke P. Kahanamoku, sheriff, and William Chung-Hoon, treasurer.--(Hawaii Times photo)."
Caption on reverse: "NEW T.H. WELFARE DIRECTOR TAKES OFFICE: Mary Noonan is is [sic] being congratulated by Governor Samuel Wilder King and two of her predecessors, Mayor Neal S. Blaisdell and George H. McLane, shortly after being sworn in this morning as director of the department of public welfare. Left to right are: Gov. King, McLane, …
Caption on reverse: "NATURALIZATION GROUP: Harold Templeman of the Department of State is shown addressing the Naturalization Encouragement Association of Honolulu's fifth annual dinner meeting last night at Queen's Surf. Others, left to right are: Delegate Elizabeth P. Farrington, Consul-General Masahide Kanayama, President-elect Masayuki Adachi and Harry Tanaka, toastmaster.--(Hawaii Times photo)."
After moving several times before settling in Hawaii, much of their files and belongings have been stored or mislaid, asks that Oliver Stone request copy of claim material from Office of Alien Property