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![Request for certificate [English translation] (ddr-csujad-12-13)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/8c/13/8c134977fde8fceff42bccd27239a7af.jpg)
![Letter from Haruto Okine to Seiichi Okine, August 26, 1948 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-247)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/71/30/7130c619640839bd8291aa00e6298fdd.jpg)
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Narrator Arthur Nishimoto
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.
Narrator Patricia Mariko Morikawa Sakamoto
Sansei female. Born April 20, 1944, in Manzanar, California. Parents married in camp, but separated soon after when father returned with his family to Japan. Left Manzanar for the Burbank trailer camp, then moved with mother and stepfather to Los Angeles, California. Active with the Manzanar Committee.
Narrator Anne Yuki Watanabe
Yonsei female. Born in 1990 in Champaign, Illinois. Father's family is from Canada and her mother is from Japan. Paternal grandparents were incarcerated in Tashme and Lillooet in Canada. After attending college on the East Coast, moved to Chicago and became active in the Japanese American community.
Narrator Rudy Tokiwa
Nisei male. Born July 7, 1925, near San Jose. Grew up in Salinas, California, until he went to Japan at the age of thirteen. Studied in Japan until about 1939. Incarcerated at the Salinas Assembly Center, California, and Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Volunteered out of camp to serve in the U.S. military. Fought in Europe as …
Narrator Hitoshi "Hank" Naito
Nisei male. Born April 20, 1926, in San Diego, California. Grew up in Terminal Island, California, where father was a fisherman. During World War II, removed with family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Family was transferred to Tule Lake in response to father's answers on the so-called …
Narrator Ramsay Yosuke Mori
Nisei male. Born February 23, 1933, in Tokyo, Japan. Moved with parents to Hawaii at a young age, and grew up in Honolulu, where family held a prominent position in the community. Just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, parents received a phone call from Japan, which was tapped by the FBI. The U.S. government …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. III No. 26 (August 15, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-21)
Selected article titles: "Orators Wanted" (p. 1), "'Plenty of Food on Hand' Says Pilcher" (p. 1), "Messages May Be Sent to Japan" (p. 1), "Workers Receive June Cash Advances" (p. 1), "Fire Sale at 4119 Today and Sunday" (p. 1), "Lumber Sold at No. 1508" (p. 1), "Fire Crew, Wardens Thanked by Block 41" (p. 1), …
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Short article regarding Takiko Mizunoe (ddr-njpa-4-751)
Caption on front [tranlsation]: "Takiko Mizunoe's appearance fee is 500 yen a day. Takiko, who has been in the States, came back to Japan last March. Since then, the public has focused on her next appearance. Her 20,000-yen contract with the Toho movie company was cancelled at the last minute, but it has been said that …
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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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Envelope and letter to Dr. Keizaburo "Kei" Koyama from Teru Koyama (ddr-one-5-40)
Slightly yellowed envelope addressed to Dr. Keizaburo Koyama in Camp Livingston from his wife, Teru Koyama, at Minidoka. Postmarked October 19, 1942. Along the top 10-23-1942 is written in red pencil. On the left side of the envelope is a purple "Censored" stamp. Inside the envelope is a letter dated October 17, 1942. Teru writes about …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 21 (October 22, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-20)
Selected article titles: "WRA Director Believes Large Group May Be Resettled Soon" (p. 1), "War Department Official Says No Major Changes Considered In Present Relocation Program" (p. 1), "Deportation of U.S. Japanese Made Issue" (p. 1), "No Truth in Hawaiian Sabotage Rumors, Declares Bill Moran" (p. 1), "JACL Officials Investigate Montana Beet Work Conditions" (p. 2), …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 33 No. 6 (August 18, 1951) (ddr-pc-23-33)
Selected article titles: "Prospects Dim for Early Action on Bill to Grant Issei Naturalization Rights" (p. 1), "President Truman Signs Evacuee Claims Amendment" (p. 1), "Invite JACL ADC Official To Attend Japanese Treaty Conference in San Francisco" (p. 1), "Justice Department Says: Undocumented Hearsay Data Will Not Be Accepted in Processing Evacuee Claims" (p. 2), "First …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 17 (April 30, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-17)
Selected article titles: "Seattle to Dedicate Memorial to Nisei GIs" (p. 1), "Prejudice in San Francisco Against Nisei Group Told in Report to Mayor's Committee" (p. 1), "JACL Asks for Ending of Segregation in Army. Masaoka Urges Positive Action to Abolish Discrimination in United States Armed Forces" (p. 1), "Japan's Press Watches U.S. Move to Repeal …
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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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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 31 No. 20 (November 18, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-46)
Selected article titles: "Twelve Japanese Americans To Serve in Isle Legislature; Okino Election Called Surprise" (p. 1), "Plan to Speed Action on Claims of Aged Issei" (p. 1), "Kawakita Appeals Treason Conviction Before U.S. Court. Convicted of Charge of Brutal Treatment of War Prisoners" (p. 1), "Sen. McCarran Will Expedite Citizenship Bill, Says Masaoka" (p. 1), …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 14 (October 2, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-40)
Selected article titles: "President signs amendment to immigration bill" (p. 1), "Elderly Issei in 80s and 90s sworn in as new citizens" (p. 1), "Few Japanese farm laborers able to save million yen from three-year U.S. stay" (p. 1), "Nisei discrimination topic of Yoshino speech" (p. 1), "Nisei administrative assistant to Burns steps into political job …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 48, No. 9 (February 27, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-9)
Selected article titles: "Wakamatsu calls for 50,000 in JACL ranks" (p. 1), "JACL-sponsored bill repealing Idaho anti-miscegenation law passes both houses" (p. 1), "Father of author of 'Home Again' vows film will be made" (p. 1), "Holder of top award from Garden Club of America, an Issei widow, revisits Japan" (p. 2), "Hiroshima social worker completes …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 67, No. 14 (October 4, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-40)
Selected article titles: "Agnew apologizes; incident may quiet all future epithets in public" (p. 1), "Knowland comments Agnew remark as 'unfortunate, regrettable' at rally" (p. 1), "Rep. Matsunaga officially criticizes Gov. Agnew for use of 'Jap', spoke in midst of House debate on buildings" (p. 1), "Official JACL explanation against 'Jap' presented" (p. 1), "'Koga method' …
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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. 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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Sgt. Sakamoto (ddr-csujad-38-458)
Photographed are Sgt. Sakamoto and George Nobuo Naohara posing on a jeep. The English caption reads: Sgt. Sakamoto found this jeep and fixed it up. Translation of the Japanese caption: Captain Sakamoto, who is a relative of Hideko Takamine, a Japanese famous actress, fixed a jeep which was abandoned in a battle field and used it …
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I.P.W. Team (ddr-csujad-38-461)
Photographed are members of Interrogation of Prisoner of War. Back row from left to right: Korean officer, Sgt. Yamashita, Sgt. Asakura, Sgt. Tamura, Sgt. Miyamoto, Sgt. Miyamoto, Sgt. Naohara. Front row from left to right: Lt. Vorobyov, Sgt. Sakamoto, Korean officer. The Japanese caption includes: Lt. Vorobyov was promoted during the war but forgot about his …
![Request for certificate [English translation] (ddr-csujad-12-13)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/7f/38/7f383808b9b3b42a80dcf08453a55212.jpg)
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Request for certificate [English translation] (ddr-csujad-12-13)
English translation of the certificate. The original certificate in Japanese is found in item: csudh_tsu_0012. This certificate was requested by Tsugitada Kanamori, addressed to Nakao Ito, the Mayor of Yokohama City Naka Ward, to certify that Yoshiro Okubo is a welfare commissioner at Bojyo-kai Fifth District. Nakao Ito certifies that the information provided, namely that Yoshiro …
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General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, March 14, 1940 (ddr-csujad-44-150)
Meeting minutes of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Includes reports on JACL's participation in the Monterey Birthday Party event, the District Council meeting in San Jose, and the membership drive. Also includes discussion of whether the chapter should take over one of the dance classes at the Bay View Grammar School, the publication of …
![Letter from Haruto Okine to Seiichi Okine, August 26, 1948 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-247)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/07/2e/072e77b60c9db3b3028c2b1abde41185.jpg)
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Letter from Haruto Okine to Seiichi Okine, August 26, 1948 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-247)
A letter from Haruto Okine in Hiroshima, Japan to his uncle, Seiichi Okine. Haruto regrets not being able to give Jokichi Yamanaka a farewell gift since Jokichi had already left for the U.S. when Haruto heard of it. He requests wool yarns for his children, Miyoko, Harumi, and Mitsuo, and some seeds of beans for his …