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doc Letter from Li Sin Chiong to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-336)

Updates on family in Hong Kong, Japan, and Formosa. Many Formosan boys are praying for a university in Formosa.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-336/

doc Three notes (ddr-densho-468-170)

Sequence of three handwritten notecards with reflections on World War II based on experience visiting Japan in 1939-1940.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-170/

img School outing group photograph (ddr-densho-359-40)

Students pose for a group photograph with a sign in Japanese. Masaru Okano lived in Japan from 1923-1933.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-40/

doc Scene the International East-West Magazine Vol. 6 No. 8 (August 1955) (ddr-densho-266-77)

Selected article titles: "The Bussei Review" (p. 16), "Knitting Styles from Japan" (p. 18), "The Hinomoto Library" (p. 24).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-266-77/

doc Scene the Pictorial Magazine Vol. 2 No. 1 (May 1950) (ddr-densho-266-18)

Selected article titles: "Mountain-top memorial" (p. 15), "Pacific melting pot" (p. 17), "America goes to Japan" (p. 61).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-266-18/

doc Postcard from Bernard Leach and Soetsu Yanagi To Mr. Takahashi, likely Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-422-102)

Travelling in Japan, consider the crafts movement the most active of the day. Photo of ceramic plate or bowl.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-422-102/

doc Letter from Tami (Tomoye) Takahashi to Don Philippi (ddr-densho-422-94)

Sorry to hear things are not going well, encourages him to go to Japan. Includes some advice about business

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-422-94/

img Sakichi Sayama, a sailor on the Hikawa Maru (ddr-densho-432-163)

Caption in album: "March 26 to April 7, 1935 / On Hikawa Maru / From Japan / Sakichi Sayama / April 7, 1935."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-432-163/

doc Olla Sugar Co. legal document (ddr-densho-1007-940)

Labor contract between Olaa Sugar Company and Haruemon Miyashita and his wife, who were immigrants to Hawaii from Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-940/

vh June Yasuno Aochi (Yamashiro) Berk Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-453-3)

Learning classical Japanese dance at a young age from a famous teacher from Japan

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-453-3/

vh Florence Ohmura Dobashi Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-434-2)

Father's early life in the U.S.: having a son in Japan he didn't know

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-434-2/

vh Hiroko Nakashima Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-69-11)

Working with other students in a factory in Japan to help the war effort

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-69-11/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-164-34)

Observing changes in the pro-Japan organizations during the institution of the renunciation program

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-34/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 42 (ddr-densho-1000-164-42)

Arrival in Japan: confronted with poverty and despair: "it was a dismal, dismal situation"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-42/

vh Muriel Chiyo Tanaka Onishi Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-243-11)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor while living in Japan: "I felt terrible"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-243-11/

vh Hideo Hoshide Interview II Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-185-28)

Informing younger sisters by letter of devastation in Japan, warning them not to come

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-185-28/

vh Marion Tsutakawa Kanemoto Interview Segment 42 (ddr-densho-1000-148-42)

Attending Doshisha University in Japan after the war; dealing with the scarcity of food

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-148-42/

vh Marion Tsutakawa Kanemoto Interview Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-148-30)

Leaving for Japan on the SS Gripsholm, part of the U.S. government-sponsored "exchange"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-148-30/

vh Lillian Nakano Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-254-4)

Traveling to Japan just before World War II to study Japanese music and dance

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-254-4/

vh Shigeko Sese Uno Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-98-10)

Returning home to help run the dairy as father returns to Japan to die

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-98-10/

vh Shigeko Sese Uno Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-98-4)

A family separated, mother and brothers leave for Japan, and a half sister arrives

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-98-4/

vh Junko Mizuta Interview Segment 1 (ddr-chi-1-6-1)

Family background, going to live in Japan for a few years as a child

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-chi-1-6-1/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 43, No. 24 (December 14, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-50)

Selected article titles: "Semi-Gov't Japan Agency to Step Up Temporary Farm Laborers Program" (p. 1), "Annual immigration quota for Japan may be raised to 563" (p. 1), "Urge middle ground in current textile, quota controversy" (p. 2), "Tokyoite answers Keyes Beech's article on Japanese indifferentism to communism" (p. 2), "Marysville fetes Japan farm laborers" (p. 3), …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-28-50/

doc Article regarding Mineo Osumi and Ferdinand Foch (ddr-njpa-4-1788)

Article (incomplete) [translation]: "Foch, who was the French Army General of the Allied Forces, visited the training fleet of Japan, which stopped at a port in Marseilles after the war in Europe. He praised the navy of Japan as the great power of East Asia in front of the young officers..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-njpa-4-1788/

doc Pacific citizen, Vol. 77, No. 23, (December 7, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-48)

Select article titles: "U.S. Judge Rules 3-1 Ration for S.F. Police Dept." (p.1); "Calif. Legislature: Reappointment Settled" (p.1); "'Gambare!', Bannai Urges Nisei" (p.1); "Returned Land from U.S. Military in Japan to Be Converted into Parks" (p.5); "Geologist Says Japan Emerged from North Coast" (p.6).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-45-48/

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