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![Letter from Natsue Okine to Seiichi Okine, [May?] 1948 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-246)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/85/ef/85ef09194cbca52575462d60258986f8.jpg)
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Narrator Iwao Peter Sano
Nisei male. Born June 9, 1924, in Brawley, California. Grew up in Brawley until the age of eleven, when family decided to send him to Japan to be adopted by an uncle and aunt. Attended school in Japan and was conscripted into the Japanese military. After Japan surrendered, was captured as a prisoner of war and …
Narrator Arthur Ogami
Nisei male. Born April 10, 1922, in Whittier, California. Spent childhood in California, before being removed to Manzanar concentration camp in 1942. Left Manzanar several times to work as a beet topper for local farmers. Decided to expatriate to Japan because of mother's wishes, and was transferred to Tule Lake concentration camp. In 1945, was moved …
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Tokio Yamane Interview (ddr-densho-1000-432)
Kibei male. Born September 2, 1922, in Hawaii. Moved with family to Hiroshima at age three, then returned to the Fresno area of the U.S. for high school. During World War II, was sent to the Fresno Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. While at Jerome, refused to answer the so-called "loyalty questions" …
Narrator George Kikuta
Kibei male. Born March 3, 1942, in Los Angeles, California. At only a few months of age, removed to the Manzanar and Tule Lake concentration camps, California. Expatriated to Japan with family during World War II. Grew up in Japan before returning to Los Angeles for high school. Later studied accounting, and became one of the …
Narrator Minoru Tajii
Nisei male. Born February 23, 1924, in Brawley, California. Grew up in El Centro, California, where parents ran a farm. During World War II, was removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Family signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire" and transferred to the Crystal City internment camp, Texas, then to Japan. Lived and worked in …
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Kenji Maruko Interview (ddr-densho-1010-8)
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 …
Narrator Kanji Sahara
Issei male. Born April 4, 1934, in Hiroshima, Japan, while mother and older siblings were visiting Japan for an extended period. Came to the United States at a few months old, and grew up in the Uptown area of Los Angeles, California. During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the …
Narrator Barry Saiki
Nisei male. Born June 21, 1919, in Stockton, California. During World War II, served with the Military Intelligence Service in Japan.
Narrator Nori Masuda
Nisei male. Born September 11, 1916, in Fresno, California. Grew up in Fresno in Chinatown, where the city's Chinese and Japanese communities were concentrated. During World War II, removed to the Fresno Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Left camp to work for Seabrook Farms, New Jersey. Enlisted in the military and served …
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San Jose State Schmidt (Willard E.) Papers (ddr-csujad-2)
The Willard Schmidt collection, documents some of the administrative duties of Willard Schmidt, the Chief of Internal Security for the War Relocation Authority and the Tule Lake incarceration/segregation camp. This collection contains administrative records and photos documenting the Tule Lake camp, the largest incarceration camp with a peak population of 18,789 and with the most turbulent …
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MP Company (ddr-csujad-38-470)
Photograph of Military Police Company. The annotation reads: MP Company was responsible to make sure the incoming G1, G2, G3, G4 group was settled into the area safely. While the G1, 2, 3, 4 interrogated the prisoners, the M.P. gave them protection. The prisoners were safely taken by them to Koji Island Camp. Title from annotation. …
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I.P.W. Team camp (ddr-csujad-38-480)
Photographed are Interrogation of Prisoner of War Team members in a military tent. Translation of the Japanese annotation: Look this tent! How nicely it was set up! Sgt. Tamura is typing a report in the tent. Once it is done, Naohara is going to drive to G1 headquarter to submit it. The headquarter is located 3 …
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Geo Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-460)
Photographed is George Nobuo Naohara holding a gun in a filed. The English caption reads: Geo Naohara always carried canteen filled with sterilized water, checking his gun, Next. Translation of the Japanese caption: Inspection of guns was needed (?) sometimes. I always filled a canteen with fresh water and never forgot to carry sterilizer with me. …
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Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-43)
A page from an album containing Japanese family photographs. Pasted on the page are three photographs and one postcard. A photograph of a Japanese man posing in front of a timber mill is included. The photograph appears to be taken in the early 1900s in Washington. Another photograph captures Japanese children, which was probably taken in …
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Family register certification for Tsugitada Kanamori, in Japanese (ddr-csujad-12-23)
The certified copy of Tsugitada Kanamori's family registration in Japan, issued by Ryoitsu Kikuchi, the Mayor of Miyagi Shida-gun Kashimadai. Includes information about his birth date of September 7, 1922, his birth place, the city of Port Hueneme in Oxnard just north of Los Angeles, as well as information about the marriage to his wife, Kazuko …
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Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-57)
A page from an album containing Japanese family photographs. Includes a photograph of the Japanese community probably in Washington. A group of Japanese men, women, and children poses surrounding a boat with a sign, "Japan gives her Navy to the cause of Democracy." In the photograph, Japanese men wear a special event costume of an American …
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Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-25)
A page from an album containing Japanese family photographs. Includes a photograph of a Japanese woman in kimono with a female child taken in front of hina ningyo, a set of ornamental dolls for Girls' Day, which appears to be taken in Japan. Also includes a photograph of a Japanese man in a suit, women in …
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Letter from Kiyoko Matsuura to Mizuko Noda, September 5, 1944 (ddr-csujad-10-1)
A letter from Kiyoko Matsuura, an internee in the Crystal City Internment Camp, to her sister in Lima Peru. In the letter, she includes updates on day to day life in the Crystal City camp and expresses her appreciation for the money sent by her father. Kiyoko states that she is anxiously waiting for a ship …
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Visiting at Letterman Hospital in S.F. (ddr-csujad-38-503)
A photograph of George Nobuo Naohara and his family and relatives, including Mr. Masukawa, Mr. Yokota, Mitzi Naohara, and Lester Naohara. It was taken when his family and relatives visited George Naohara who was hospitalized in the Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco. The caption reads: Visiting at Letterman Hospital in S. F. Title from caption. …
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See Grim fight in the Pacific: repatriates on Gripsholm report Japanese morale high (ddr-csujad-38-407)
A newspaper clipping titled: See Grim fight in the Pacific: repatriates on Gripsholm report Japanese morale high. It was sent from Laura in Lawrence, Kansas to Mitzi Masukawa Naohara incarcerated at the Poston camp in Arizona. It cites comments from the American repatriates traded between the U.S. and Japan regarding the morale of the Japanese that …
![Letter from Natsue Okine to Seiichi Okine, [May?] 1948 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-246)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/a1/aa/a1aa8c1e67fb06cf1dca1f42ce60a0d2.jpg)
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Letter from Natsue Okine to Seiichi Okine, [May?] 1948 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-246)
A letter from Natsue Okine in Itsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan to Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. She updates on her life, the barley harvest, and that she will start planting rice soon. She also shares appreciation for the gift of winter clothes from the Okines and looks forward to the winter to wear the clothes. The arrival date …
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Nancy Sawada Miyagishima Interview (ddr-densho-1000-214)
Sansei female. Born September 17, 1930, in Sacramento, California. Spent childhood in Sacramento where mother and stepfather worked on strawberry fields. Sent to live with relatives in Fort Lupton, Colorado, after mother passed away in March 1941. Unable to return to West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Extended family moved …
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June M. Hoshida Honma Interview (ddr-densho-1000-256)
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 …
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Sadayoshi Omoto Interview (ddr-densho-1001-37)
Nisei male. Born October 5, 1922, in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Was attending the University of Washington when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. During World War II, was removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Was drafted into the military and served with the Military Intelligence Service.
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Narrator John Kats Marumoto
Nisei male. Born June 24, 1927, in Terminal Island, California. Grew up on Terminal Island, where father was a fisherman. Lived in Japan for a short time in 1941. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, moved to Compton after the Japanese Americans were excluded from Terminal Island. Removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving …