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vh Takashi Matsui Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1008-4-18)

Teaching at Military Intelligence Service Language School, Camp Savage, Minnesota: Emphasizing strict discipline, relationship with students

Members of the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) arranged for and conducted this interview in conjunction with Densho.

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av From Citizen to suspect: Long Beach and Terminal Island stories (ddr-csujad-51-1)

A discussion panel recorded at the Historical Society of Long Beach gallery during the "Long Beach Remembers Pearl Harbor" exhibition. Panel members included Joe Ozaki and Naomi Hirahara with moderator Karen Harper. Guests told their stories of life in Long Beach and Terminal Island before, during, and after World War II. The Speaker Series was a …

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Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) and Chicago Japanese American Historical Society (CJAHS) Oral History Project Collection (ddr-chi-1)

Collection Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) and Chicago Japanese American Historical Society (CJAHS) Oral History Project Collection (ddr-chi-1)

This collection consists of interviews conducted during the "Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties" exhibit sponsored by Alphawood Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, along with additional interviews conducted subsequent to the closing of the exhibit. All interviews are held in the collections of the archival collections …

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Collection Frank C. Hirahara Collection (ddr-one-1)

Photographs taken by Frank C. Hirahara during the post-war resettlement years in Portland, Oregon. This collection includes over 1500 photographic prints, negatives, and 35mm color slides along with personal artifacts and other historical records. These newly discovered images focus on missing facets of Portland’s Japanese American community from 1948 - 1954, as well as Hirahara’s award …

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doc SDSU Alumni: Looking for 36 (ddr-densho-446-369)

SDSU Turns to Family and Friends to Help Find Nisei Students

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Narrator George Yoshida

Nisei male. Born April 9, 1922, in Seattle, Washington. Parents immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. Attended Bailey Gatzert Elementary School and Washington Middle School in Seattle before his family moved to East Los Angeles in 1936. Incarcerated in Poston Detention Camp #1, Arizona, in April 1942. While in camp, helped organize the "Music Makers," …

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av Oral history recording with Frances Ishii Lyon and Kiyo Anne Fujimoto (ddr-csujad-53-1)

An oral history recording with Frances Ishii Lyon and Kiyo Anne Fujimoto, daughters of Frank and Hisa Ishii. Frank Ishii was the first president of the Japanese American Citizens League in Long Beach. The family was first "evacuated"; from Long Beach to Santa Anita race track assembly center, then incarcerated at the Jerome camp in Arkansas. …

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av Democracy Under Pressure: Japanese Americans and World War II (ddr-densho-1024-40)

Documentary film on the wartime experience of Japanese Americans from the San Diego area, including their exclusion and subsequent incarceration at Santa Anita Assembly Center and Poston , as well as their return home. The story is told through the eyes of former inmates Ruth Takahashi Voorhies (born 1923) and Ben Segawa (born 1930), along with …

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img Two children running between the barracks at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-18)

Two children appear to be running in an otherwise empty area at Manzanar. One can see barracks on either side of the image and a building in the center of the photo, behind a flagpole with the United States flag. Caption above the image reads, "MANZANAR, Clif. Nov. 11 -- RELOCATION CENTER -- This California Historical …

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vh Takashi Matsui Interview (ddr-densho-1008-4)

Kibei male. Born January 20, 1917, in Hood River, Oregon. Lived in Seattle, Washington, before being taken to Japan by mother at the age of three. Completed elementary through high school in Japan. Returned to Seattle at seventeen years of age. Continued education in United States. Drafted in 1942 and was an instructor for the Military …

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Collection Yabe Family Papers Collection (ddr-ohs-1)

Digitized selections from a larger collection that documents the lives and activities of the Yabe family, particularly the first generation (the Issei) who immigrated from Japan to California in the early 1900s, and the second generation, the Nisei. Major topics represented the collection overall include the experience Mitsuye (Jyoko) Yabe as an immigrant to the United …

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vh George S. Matsui Interview (ddr-densho-1008-2)

Nisei male. Born March 1, 1915, in Los Angeles, California. Spent prewar childhood in Long Beach, California, but attended grade school and junior high in Japan. Returned to the United States to attend high school. In 1941, was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Camp Roberts, San Luis Obispo, California for basic training. Was …

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av Honor Bound: A Personal Journey (ddr-densho-1024-24)

Documentary film that tells the story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team through the story of one soldier, Haruo Howard "Howe" Hanamura, and his daughter, television reporter Wendy Hanamura, who travel to Europe in October 1994 for 50th anniversary ceremonies of the liberation of Bruyeres and Biffontaine by the 442nd. The film was produced by the …

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doc SDSU Alumni: "A Measure of Restitution" (ddr-densho-446-368)

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doc Ryo Tsai Draft Narrative re: Origin of NKHA Exhibit (ddr-densho-446-448)

Ryo Tsai explained how the Nippon Kan Heritage Association (NKHA) Exhibit was conceived and implemented. It was shown at Nippon Kan on Mar 17, 1985 and later at the Seattle Public Library.

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doc Seattle Times: Exhibits celebrate immigrants' strengths, talents in new country (ddr-densho-446-452)

Article titled "Japanese-American women" noted that the 11 NW women added to the exhibit at the Burke were chosen by a committee of their peers.

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vh Mitsue Matsui Interview (ddr-densho-1008-3)

Nisei female. Born November 3, 1918, in San Francisco, California. As a young woman, entire family visited Japan for ten months, where she acquired the skill of Japanese typing at the Kumahira Typist Yoseisho in Hiroshima. Returned to the U.S. with most of her family (eldest brother remained in Japan) and was working at the Japanese …

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vh George Koshi Interview (ddr-densho-1008-1)

Kibei male. Born June 16, 1911, in Greeley, Colorado. Raised in Denver, Colorado, until the age of five. Sent to Japan for schooling in 1917 and returned to the U.S. at the age of seventeen. Continued his education to eventually become the first Nikkei attorney in the state of Colorado. Drafted into the U.S. Army in …

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vh Harvey Watanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1008-5)

Nisei male. Born February 1919 in Exeter, California. Spent prewar childhood in Visalia, California. Drafted prior to World War II. Served in an activated National Guard unit at Fort Lewis, Washington. When World War II broke out, he and all the other Nisei servicemen at Fort Lewis were sent inland. About twenty, Harvey included, went to …

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vh George Yoshida Interview (ddr-densho-1000-132)

Nisei male. Born April 9, 1922, in Seattle, Washington. Parents immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. Attended Bailey Gatzert Elementary School and Washington Middle School in Seattle before his family moved to East Los Angeles in 1936. Incarcerated in Poston Detention Camp #1, Arizona, in April 1942. While in camp, helped organize the "Music Makers," …

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