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img Takiko Mizunoe and Shirley Temple posing with others (ddr-njpa-4-742)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Takiko meets Shirley Temple. May 30, 1939. When Takiko Mizunoe made a port call at Hawaii she met Shirley Temple in Lanikai, a suburb of Honolulu. Shown in the photo taken May 19th, from left, Miss Kai, Temple, Mizunoe, and Mr. Murayama."

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doc Roy Y. Uto and Harold M. Date (ddr-njpa-5-435)

Caption on newspaper clipping: "Outgoing and Incoming YBA Head: Harold M. Date (right) is shown accepting the gavel from Roy Y. Uto as the new president of the Honolulu YBA at the association's 59th annual meeting last night at the Waikiki Lau Yee Chai. -- (Hawaii Times photo)"

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img Roy Y. Uto and Harold M. Date (ddr-njpa-5-434)

Caption on reverse: "Outgoing and Incoming YBA Head: Harold M. Date (right) is shown accepting the gavel from Roy Y. Uto as the new president of the Honolulu YBA at the association's 59th annual meeting last night at the Waikiki Lau Yee Chai. -- (Hawaii Times photo)"

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img Madge Goto standing next to a piano (ddr-njpa-5-1147)

Caption on reverse: "After the concert: Miss Madge Goto posed for this photo in front of the piano after her successful recital at Mabel Smyth auditorium last night. The leis were presented to her at the end of the reciptal.--(Hawaii Times photo by Don Nagano)"

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 23 No. 12 (September 28, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-39)

Selected article titles: "Government Conducts Survey of Readjustment Problems of Japanese American Group" (p. 1), "Japanese Americans Reenter Hawaii Political Campaigns. Run for Territorial Offices For First Time Since 1942 Mass Withdrawal from Politics" (p. 1), "Evacuation Held Responsible for Unsettled Civil Liberties Issues" (p. 3).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 38 No. 23 (June 4, 1954) (ddr-pc-26-23)

Selected article titles: "Federal judge rules loss of citizenship status unconstitutional" (p. 1), "Increasingly mixed-up racial breakdown of Hawaii births solved -- Territory Health Dept. decides to stop such statistics" (p. 3), "Midwest District Council proposes own plan to incorporate Issei division in national JACL" (p. 4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 62, No. 23 (June 10, 1966) (ddr-pc-38-23)

Select article titles: "EDC asks $15,000 budget to boost civil rights aims" (p. 1); "Extensive celebration of 100th anniversary of Japanese immigration to Hawaii planned for 1968 by Islanders" (p. 1); "Nisei Republican views the Negro" (p. 3); "Another Nisei GI Killed in Vietnam" (p. 6).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 41 No. 7 (August 12, 1955) (ddr-pc-27-32)

Selected article titles: "House passes Hawaii land return bill, aids non-profit Japanese organizations" (p. 1), "Anti-oriental discriminatory clause in Reclamation Act deleted in House action" (p. 1), "Past decade of Japan's democratization surveyed; importation of American customs many, but labor movement rise significant" (p. 2).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 56, No. 8 (February 22, 1963) (ddr-pc-35-8)

Selected article titles: "Detailed Paper Work Keeps History Project Staff Busy" (pp. 1-2), "Ineffective Oral Communication Viewed as 'Achilles Heel' For Japanese Americans" (p. 1), "Tokyo Topics: Japanese in Hawaii Celebration" (p. 2), and "By the Board: Civil Rights in the State of Washington" (p. 4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 80, No. 21 (May 30, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-21)

Indochina refugees issue. Selected article titles: "Nikkei and U.S. Foreign Policy" (p. 1), "20,000 Parade in N.Y. Chinatown for Civil Rights" (pp. 1-2), "Asian Americans Mistaken for Illegal Aliens Working in Hawaii Tourist Trade" (p. 1), and "After Camp Pendleton: California Must Do More" (p. 2).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 79, No. 21 (November 22, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-46)

Selected article titles: "Hawaii Politics: Was There Distrust of Nikkei?' (p. 1), "Oil Crisis Exposes Japan's Weakness as Economic Force" (pp. 1, 3), "JACL--National Board: Nat'l Faces Year-End Cash Flow Ebb" (pp. 1-2), and "JACL--Sansei Study Tour: Hiroshima: The Turning Point" (p. 2).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 110, No. 16 (April 27, 1990) (ddr-pc-62-16)

Select article titles: "Memorial Service for Matsunaga: Thousands Pay Final Respects at State Capitol, Church in Hawaii"(p.1); "Youth Convicted for Terrorizing Black Students at Bus Stop"(p.1); "JA Vets Attempt to Quell Memorial Controversy"(p.3); "Waking Up to Our Own Racism"(p.5).

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img Nisei soldiers eating (ddr-densho-114-44)

Original caption: North Africa Theater. Japanese soldiers in the U.S. Army, are eating chow in the field, using a pan for a stove, L to R: Capt. Victor J. Bonin, Lowell, Mass., and Hilo, Hawaii; Pfc. Morio Kidani, Honolulu; and Pfc. Yasuo Takenouchi, Kapaa, Kauai. 1943.

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img Two Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-114-38)

Original caption: Pfc Robert N. Maeda, left, Waipahu, Oahu, Hawaii, munches a candy bar as he waits with Pfc Lawson I. Sakai, of Grand Junction, Colo., for transportation to a new bivouac area in France. 10/14/44. 2nd Bn., 442nd Combat Team, Chambois Sector. France.

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VI, No. 20 (ddr-densho-156-284)

Article titles: "Kansas to Use Japanese Labor to Harvest Beet Crop"; "Rumor Regarding Pay of Japanese Quelled"; "Dempsey Answers Japanese Colonization 'Insinuations'"; "Living Conditions at Projects"; "Evacuation of Coast Japanese Completed..."; "Harvesting Progressing: Crop Saved"; "Hawaii to Evacuate Some Japs"; "...Three More Bay Area Suspects Ousted..."

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doc Passport no. 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-1844)

Passport belonging to Mr. McClaren (McLaren) for a cruise to Hawaii aboard the S.S. Aloha. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1847

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doc Passport no. 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-1845)

Passport belonging to Mrs. McClaren (McLaren) for a cruise to Hawaii aboard the S.S. Aloha. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1848

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vh Arthur Nishimoto Interview (ddr-manz-1-129)

Nisei male. Born August 28, 1923, in Honolulu, Hawaii. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, volunteered for the army and served in Europe with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. After discharge, was called back to active duty and served with the U.S. Counterintelligence Corps in Japan.

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Narrator Michiko Kornhauser

Shin-Issei female. Born July 21, 1936, in Sasebo, Japan. Was a child in Okayama during World War II. After the war, immigrated to the United States and lived and worked in various places including Honoulu, Hawaii, and Portland, Oregon.

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/693/

Narrator Ben Tamashiro

Nisei male. Born in 1917 in Hanapepe, Kauai, Hawaii. Grew up in Hanapepe where father worked on a plantation. Volunteered for the army prior to World War II. During the war, reenlisted and became a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion.

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/835/

vh Rudy Tokiwa Interview II Segment 48 (ddr-densho-1000-92-48)

The battle of the "Lost Battalion"; memories of Colonel Pursall standing up for his menRegimental Combat Team lives

This interview was conducted at the 1998 Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans National Convention, held in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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img Japanese acting troupe posing with Nichibei Kinema banner (ddr-njpa-4-7)

Caption on reverse: "GALAXY OF JAPANESE STARS ARRIVE: These luminaries of the Japanese stage and screen arrived by Pan American stratocruiser this morning to present a show at McKinley auditorium from September 7 through 10. Standing, left to right: Kimiko Mizumachi, Otome Arakawa, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Ranko Edogawa and Teruko Ohmi. Sitting, left to right: Masaichi Shirakawa, …

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img Photograph and two short articles regarding Tokuko Moriwake Nakano (ddr-njpa-4-1252)

English article title: "MRS. TOKUKO MORIWAKE NAKANO. (Former Hawaiian Champion Enroute to Japan)." Japanese article [translation]: "Mrs. Tokuko, the wife of Fujio Nakano, the Shokin Bank's New York branch chief, visited Hawaii alone via steamship and will transfer to the ship Asama Maru going to Japan tomorrow. She visited our company guided by Ryoichi Tanaka. By …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 67, No. 21 (November 22, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-47)

Selected article titles: "Buddhist prelate lauds Placer fete as Americanism at its best" (p. 1), "Hosokawa calls MIS veterans to battle present-day social ills" (p. 1), "Not safe anymore to walk, drive through Seattle central district" (p. 1), "Hawaiians reject constitutional change to drop voting age to 18" (p. 1), "2 Japanese in South Africa ired …

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img Japanese American chaplain (ddr-densho-114-109)

Original caption: Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Japanese-American Combat Team. At Camp Shelby, Miss. Americans of Japanese ancestry from California, Hawaii, and other areas are undergoing intensive training as an Army combat team. One group of Japanese-Americans has already gone and seen action in the Mediterranean Theatre. These pictures show some of the phases of the training of …

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