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Fred Matsumura Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-46-23)
Being held in company confinement -- except to go in to combat
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 …
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Fred Matsumura Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-46-22)
Shiro Kashino's wartime court-martial: refusing to "squeal on a buddy..."
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 …
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Memo from the office of John J. McCloy (ddr-densho-67-58)
Memo from the office of John J. McCloy to an unknown recipient regarding transfer of Hawaiian Kibei to Tule Lake. Author states that Kibei cannot be transferred due to lack of facilities and the fear that the Kibei will add to a growing militant section of internees. This would be problematic because the Japanese military might …
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Group photograph of Kanekazu Okada, his wife, Waseda University wrestlers, and others (ddr-njpa-4-1988)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Consul General Okada invites the players of Waseda University to Hawaii. Consul General Okada invited the wrestlers of Waseda University to the official residence for a tea party yesterday afternoon. The consul general talked about international goodwill through sportsmanship at the tea party. The audience was moved by Okada's speech. The representatives …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 16 (September 17, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-15)
Selected article titles: "Call Evacuees to Save Vital Cotton Crop!" (p. 1), "No Danger of Japanese Fifth Column in Hawaii, Says Clark" (p. 1), "Gen. DeWitt Asked by Stimson To Permit Use of Evacuees" (p. 1), "Federal Court Convicts Nisei In Test Case" (p. 2), "Native Sons Favor Movement to Expel All Japanese from U.S." (p. …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 10 (March 11, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-10)
Selected article titles: "Hawaii Nisei Volunteers Near Ten Thousand" (p. 1), "WRA Reports 301 Evacuees Volunteer for Combat Service at Minidoka Relocation Center" (p. 1), "Nisei Evacuee Arrested After Return to San Francisco" (p. 1), "Details of Plan to Return 200 Evacuees to Former Homes In Arizona Left in WRA Hands" (p. 2), "Bainbridge Island Evacuees …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 21 No. 5 (August 4, 1945) (ddr-pc-17-31)
Selected article titles: "2nd Battalion of 442nd Wins Unit Citation" (p. 1), "Federal Indictment Asked Against Anti-Nisei Terrorists" (p. 1), "Navy Permits Nisei, Issei to Fish in Hawaii" (p. 1), "Nisei Released as Brooklyn Sabotage Scare Proves Dud" (p. 1), "CIO Union Committee Asks Explusion of Two Leaders of Racist Activity in Stockton Unit" (p. 2), …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 32 No. 13 (March 31, 1951) (ddr-pc-23-13)
Selected article titles: "Joint Committee on Omnibus Bill Hears Common Council Plea for Liberalized Measure" (p. 1), "JACL Groups Endorse Slum Clearance Plan" (p. 2), "West Coast Express Interest in Obtaining Nisei Office Workers From Hawaii" (p. 2), "Federal Judge Recognizes U.S. Citizenship of Nisei Strandee" (p. 2), "Diary of Relocation Camp Life Will Be Edited …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 1 (January 8, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-1)
Selected article titles: "Chicago City Agency Will Fight Race Bias in Burials" (p. 1), "Dean Acheson Proud of Role as JACL Counsel in Test Cases" (p. 1), "Truman Reaffirms Civil Rights Program In Talk to Congress" (p. 1), "U.S. District Court Hears Fujizawa's Attempt to Win Recognition of Citizenship. Served as Interpreter During War at POW …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 30 No. 15 (April 15, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-15)
Selected article titles: "Use 'Dual Citizenship' Charge to Deny Clearance to Nisei at Atomic Energy Project" (p. 1), "Few Canada Evacuees Return to Coast Evacuated Area" (p. 1), "House Group May Cite Two Nisei Witnesses for Contempt in Hawaii Communism Inquiry" (p. 2), "Status of Shintoism as Religion Becomes Issue in Court Case Over Return of …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 42, No. 3 (January 20, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-3)
Selected article titles: "Regulations Humanizing Deportation Proceedings Officially Approved" (p. 1), "Asians regard Alaska-Hawaii territorial status as mark of U.S colonial power" (p. 1), "Pick successor to George Togasaki of Nippon Times" (p. 2), "80 return to JACL shelter after new Yuba flood crisis" (p. 1), "Support scare as Chinese Canadian loses bid for B.C. legislative …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 9 (August 28, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-35)
Selected article titles: "50th star flutters: Hawaii now full-fledged state" (p. 1), "Immigration director who facilitated Issei naturalization named to intelligence" (p. 1), "Mid-Manhattan's power blackout taken in stride; mother tells ghost stories to children at bedtime, enjoyed by candlelight" (p. 3), "Zen identified with 'state where nothing of importance is left' says world's leading authority, …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 48, No. 6 (February 6, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-6)
Selected article titles: "Issei first to get new DAR pin" (p. 1), "26 State Solons Co-Author Cal. FEPC Measure" (p. 1), "IDC to discuss marriage bias laws" (p. 1), "Hawaii maintains vigorous campaign to push citizenship training classes for aliens" (p. 3), "Chinese tongs provided insurance against want, place to stay in San Francisco" (p. 3), …
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Pacific Citizen, Whole No. 2167, Vol. 93, No. 23 (December 4, 1981) (ddr-pc-53-48)
Selected article titles: "CWRIC holds 1-day hearing in New York" (p. 1), "Church leaders urge redress for internees" (p. 1), "Doctor says Hawaii Nisei judge was not beaten up" (p. 1), "ACLU's Statement to CWRIC" (p. 2), "Doctor says hepatitis frequent in Asians" (p. 3), "'Yakuza' -- Some Unpleasant Implications" (p. 5), "The Problems of Self-Identity" …
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Pacific Citizen, Whole No. 2128, Vol. 92, No. 9 (March 6, 1981) (ddr-pc-53-9)
Selected article titles: "Census shows Asian-Pacific American population doubled" (p. 1), "Court hearing set Mar. 10 for ousted Livingston Nisei teacher" (p. 1), "Nisei vets harassed on S.F. radio talk show" (p. 1), "Benihana workers succeed in first unionizing drive" (p. 2), "Nisei denied malpractice insurance renewal" (p. 2), "KNBC commended for pulling 'Chan' film ads" …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 99, No. 5 (August 3, 1984) (ddr-pc-56-30)
Selected article titles: "'Sixteen Candles' protests taken to Universal" (p. 1), "Fujiyoshi's case supported by defense witness" (p. 1), "'Sixteen Candles': A Dreary Exercise in Asian Stereotypes" (p. 2), "Workshop on Nisei resisters offered" (p. 3), "Summary of Resolutions for Consideration by National Council" (p. 4), "Proposed Amendments to Constitution and Bylaws" (p. 4), "1984 National …
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Hawaiian Nisei veteran presenting lei (ddr-densho-114-186)
Original caption: Colonel Joseph P. Sullivan, Sixth Army Quartermaster, represents General Mark W. Clark, CG, Sixth Army, at a ceremony where Sam Kinoshita, Nisei veteran of the 442nd Combat Team, holds Hawaiian lei of 1,100 individual flowers, which is on route to Paris to be placed on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arch …
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Rohwer Outpost Vol. III No. 48 (December 15, 1943) (ddr-densho-143-125)
Selected article titles: "Volunteers: Camp Savage Calls for Men" (p. 1), "Shortage of Coal: Three Carloads Offset Crisis" (p. 1), "Repatriation News Given" (p. 1), "Draft Age Evacuees Warned to Comply With Regulation" (p. 1), "Class in American Institution Meets" (p. 2), "Travel Regulations for Relocated Aliens Given" (p. 3), "Financial News Reported by C.A." (p. …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 27 (March 2, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-116)
Selected article titles: "Price-War Story Disturbs Fresnans"; "Assault Charges Made Against Three Persons"; "On the Other Hand"; "Souvenir Translated"; "Tule Lake's Outlawed Organizations' Chiefs Sentenced to Jail Terms"; "Emoto of Hunt Charged with Weapon"; "Benefit Dance Sunday Night"; "California to Accept State Job Application"; "'Nisei Action -- Today and Tomorrow'"; "Dean Opposes College Student Equality Group"; …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 137 (November 15, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-71)
Selected article titles: "Say Japanese Should Help Attorneys Defray Court Test Legal Costs"; "On the Other Hand"; "Clark University Man Describes Experience"; "Men Fighting for Homes and Families"; "Sergeant Tanouye's Feat Given High Praise"; "War Fund Drive Total Disclosed at Gila"; "'Do You Guys Need Any Cigarettes?' Sakamoto Asked 'Lost Battalion' Men. Hawaii Nisei Soldier, Member …
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Kazuo Yamane Interview (ddr-densho-1004-20)
Nisei male. Born December 8, 1916, in Hawaii. Was already in the army when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Served with the Military Intelligence Service as a translator at the Pentagon and in Europe.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. …
Narrator Kenji Maruko
Sansei male. Born December 13, 1920, in Fresno, California. Father was born in Hawaii, mother was born in Japan. Grew up in Fresno, where parents ran a successful bicycle shop and general store. During World War II, removed to the Fresno Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty …
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Sadaichi Kubota Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-40-28)
Recounting the fight that led to the erroneous court-martial of Shiro Kashino
This interview was conducted at the 1998 Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans National Convention, held in Honolulu, Hawaii. Because of the full conference schedule, interviews conducted at the reunion were generally shorter in length than the typical Densho interview and tend to concentrate on …
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Sadaichi Kubota Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-40-11)
Cleaning up the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, seeing the "puffs of smoke"
This interview was conducted at the 1998 Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans National Convention, held in Honolulu, Hawaii. Because of the full conference schedule, interviews conducted at the reunion were generally shorter in length than the typical Densho interview and tend to concentrate on …
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Sadaichi Kubota Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-40-30)
Initial decision to attempt to clear the erroneous court-martial conviction of Shiro Kashino
This interview was conducted at the 1998 Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans National Convention, held in Honolulu, Hawaii. Because of the full conference schedule, interviews conducted at the reunion were generally shorter in length than the typical Densho interview and tend to concentrate …