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Terry Aratani - Fred Matsumura - Kenneth Okuma - Henry Bruno Yamada Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-3-2)
The impressive record of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team: "[W]e had something to prove, that we were loyal Americans."
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 …
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Terry Aratani - Fred Matsumura - Kenneth Okuma - Henry Bruno Yamada Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-3-11)
The only records of AWOL in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team were soldiers leaving the hospital early to return to battle
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 …
Narrator Tom Matsuoka
Kibei male. Born August 1, 1903, in Sprecklesville, Maui, Hawaii. Taken to Japan in 1905 and raised by grandparents. Returned to the United States in 1919, joining father at Barneston sawmill in Washington. Married and farmed in Bellevue, Washington. Founded Bellevue Seinenkai and managed the Bellevue Vegetable Growers Association prior to World War II. Was picked …
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Louise Kashino - Sadaichi Kubota - Bill Thompson Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-32-5)
The Shiro Kashino court-martial: finding a person directly involved in the incident: refusal to admit the truth
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 …
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Louise Kashino - Sadaichi Kubota - Bill Thompson Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-32-9)
Convincing the actual offender to write the affidavit admitting his guilt in the Shiro Kashino court-martial incident
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 …
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Bring Jap Labor for Railroad. Commissioner of Immigration Says Large Numbers Are Taken to Hawaii, Thence to Northwestern States. Many Devices Employed by Chinese to Evade Exclusion Law -- They Also Aid Importation of Immoral Women. (January 7, 1907) (ddr-densho-56-72)
The Seattle Daily Times, January 1, 1907, p. 3
Narrator Nobuko Miyake-Stoner
Japanese female. Born Feburary 10, 1952, in Hiroshima, Japan. Descendant of survivors of the atomic bombing in 1945. Father was a kamikaze pilot during World War II who was unable to fulfill his mission due to the war's end. Nobuko attended the Hiroshima Jogakuin, a missionary school established for young women. Graduated with an M.A. in …
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Frank Takizo Matsumoto and Diet delegates being welcomed to Hawai'i (ddr-njpa-4-840)
Caption on reverse: "JAPANESE DIET DELEGATION BACK IN HONOLULU: Shown above are 15 members of the Japanese Diet party as they arrived at the Honolulu airport from Seattle at 6:50 this morning by Northwest Airlines for a two-day visit before leaving for Tokyo via Pan American Airways Saturday at 9:30 a.m. They were each given a …
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Sueko Asuka (ddr-njpa-5-17)
Caption on reverse: "MISS ASKUA DANCES: Miss Sueko Asuka, noted dance teacher who took advanced lessons from Film Star-Dancer Kazuo Hasegawa for six months in Japan last year, gave a dance recital at International Theater last night. The show was an invitational affair and packed to capacity. Miss Asuka's pupils did numerous dances and she herself …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 15 (April 15, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-15)
Selected article titles: "Three Nisei Soldiers Win Army Decorations" (p. 1), "Gen. DeWitt Opposes Return of Evacuees. 'Jap's a Jap,' Declared Army Commander; Repudiates Citizen Rights of Japanese Americans" (p. 1), "Topaz Resident Killed by Shot Fired by M.P." (p. 1), "Japanese Americans Carried Out Special Assignment" (p. 1), "FBI Director Says Japanese in Hawaii Not …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 22 No. 15 (April 13, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-15)
Selected article titles: "Ban Travel Restrictions on Hawaii Nisei. Shipping Companies Advised Certificates of Citizenship Not Required for Passage" (p. 1), "Evacuation Remains Smudge on National Honor, Says Post; Urges Payments for Losses" (p. 2), "Nisei Attorney Picked to Aid Trials of War Crimes Suspects" (p. 2), "Canada Lifts Trvel Ban on Nisei Veterans" (p. 3), …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 4 (January 29, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-4)
Selected article titles: "Report Evacuees Slow in Filing Claims for Evacuation Losses With Department of Justice" (p. 1), "Nisei in Japan May Enlist as U.S. Interpreter" (p. 1), "California Assembly Considers Bills to Outlaw Race Prejudice" (p. 1), "Social Scientists Study Effects Of Language School Reopening On Japanese in Hawaii" (p. 2), "Ashes May Be Sent …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 30 No. 12 (March 25, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-12)
Selected article titles: "Nineteen Japanese Americans Win Election as Delegates to Hawaii Statehood Convention" (p. 1), "House Appropriations Group Slashes 20 Per Cent from Evacuee Claims Payment Fund" (p. 1), "JACL to File Brief in Cases on Segregation. Court Will Hear Three Test Suits on Jim Crow Laws" (p. 1), "500 Claims Filed by Evacuees For …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 65, No. 15 (October 13, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-42)
Selected article titles: "Radio showman suggests use of 'Jappish'" (p. 1), "Statistics show Japanese immigrants in Hawaii of 19th century with high 'expected' death rate" (p. 1), "War relocation leave credit authorized for Cal employees" (p. 1), "100 JACLers poised for Japan tour, departing tomorrow in two sections" (p. 1), "Sao Paulo's 'La Libertad' district Brazil's …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 67, No. 12 (September 20, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-38)
Selected article titles: "Angelenos mourn death of Sansei police officer" (p. 1), "Spark & Patsy won't have easy campaign as Mayor Blaisdell files at last minute" (p. 1), "Matsunaga calls for Dept. of Peace, first advocated for U.S. in 1779" (p. 1), "390,000 Orientals in California now" (p. 1), "Seattle human rights commission asks extra funds …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 70, No. 13 (April 3, 1970) (ddr-pc-42-13)
Selected article titles: "Friends to establish Masaoka trust fund" (p. 1), "Earl Warren speaks out on Title II" (p. 1), "History of the Japanese in Utah placed in archives of state society" (p. 1), "Reno Nisei candidate in recall petition of three councilmen" (p. 1), "School integration resolution offered" (p. 1), "Court rules on literacy test …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 42, No. 19 (May 11, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-19)
Selected article titles: "Sen. Kuchel meets Bay Area JACLers, community leaders" (p. 1), "Population Study of Midwest Japanese Due" (p. 1), "Three Television Networks in All-Out Effort to Avoid Offending Minorities in Songs, Some Banned, Changed" (p. 1), "Eisenhower Has Bill OK'd by Congress Permitting Use of Mongolian Labor" (p. 1), "Magnuson urges claims bill passage" …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 43, No. 14 (October 5, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-40)
Selected article titles: "Note Sansei in Hawaii Politics, 2 Seek Offices" (p. 1), "Sansei scores 190 pts. out of possible 110 in Oregon State entrance examination" (p. 1), "New Justice Dep't Procedures for Renunciants Follows JACL Policy" (p. 1), "Effective campaign to carry 'Yes on Prop. 13' urged in Nisei vernacular" (p. 1), "Detroit JACLers open …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 117, No. 20 (December 17,1993-January 6, 1994) (ddr-pc-65-45)
Select article titles: "No wand then...with Bill Hosokawa" (p. A8); "Our man, Sam" (p. A18); "Volunteer leadership for changing times..." (p. A20); "'The Joy Luck Club'" (p. B4); "Exhibit honors the Japanese Pioneers of Oregon" (p. B7); "Takao Ozawa: A Japanese national fights discrimination in Hawaii during the early 1900s" (p. B8).
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 150 (December 13, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-236)
Selected article titles: "Nisei Expatriate Goes to Japan to be Convinced He Shouldn't Have Gone"; "Housing Shortage Hits Returnees to Hawaii"; "Chinese Americans"; "Bussei Conclave December 28-29"; "Former WRA Director Named to Fact Finding Board"; "Tired of Always Dancing"; "Los Angeles Sergeant Interpreter in Hankow"; "Liveright Foresees Need for Evacuee Aid"; "Cabinet Officer in Deport Crisis"; …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 133 (November 7, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-219)
Selected article titles: "Returnee Aid by FHA is Clarified"; "Dilemma of Canadian Niseis Described"; "Hot Salt Bath Puts Vitamin by White Rice"; "Plans for Christmas Ball Announced by Taki Domoto"; "Job Forum Held"; "Japanese American Girls from Hawaii Fly to Japan"; "Take Out Wedding License"; "Burbank to Get 600 Evacuees Very Soon"; "Kido Not Candidate"; "Dr. …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 134 (November 8, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-68)
Selected article titles: "McWilliams Says Amendment Prejudiced; Ineffective"; "To 90% of Personnel Combat Badges Go"; "Hawaii was Handled How Situation In"; "FCC Commissioner Resigns His Office"; "War Department Denies Decision Made to Open Coast to Evacuees. Replies to Charge by Wollenberg That Japanese Will Filter Back After Nov. 15"; "No Comment"; "Ten Members of 171st Infantry …
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Daily Press Review, Vol. VI, No. 6 (ddr-densho-156-270)
Article titles: "Editorial: 'Too Much'"; "Forced Jap Labor Urged": "Italian and German Evacuees from Coast are Arrivals Here"; "German Group Declared Secretly Working Since War Began"; "Hawaii Born Jap Yields Seat He Won"; "Curfew Law Puzzle Arises"; "Japs to be Moved"; "Mine Owners Seek Okeh on Jap Labor"; "Last 500 of Mexican Crop Workers Here"; "Employment …
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Ingram Stainback signing a document, Oren E. Long and others looking on (ddr-njpa-2-1184)
Caption on reverse: "GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS SIGHT CONSERVATION WEEK: Governor Ingram M. Stainback (seated) is shown signing a proclamation designating the week of November 1 to 6 as the second annual Sight Conservation Week. Looking on, left to right, are: Oren E. Long, secretary of Hawaii and district governor, Lions International, District 50; Mrs. Dora Zane, assistant …
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Susumu Ito Interview (ddr-densho-1000-29)
Nisei male. Born July 27, 1919, in Stockton, California. Emeritus professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical School. During World War II, was second lieutenant, 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. In his interview, he discusses his memories of serving in the 442nd and some of the more psychological aspects of combat.
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