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vh Marian Shingu Sata Interview (ddr-densho-1000-262)

Nisei female. Born August 31, 1935, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Gardena, where father was a prominent community leader and principal of the Japanese language school. During World War II, removed with family to the Stockton Assembly Center, California, and the Rohwer concentration camp, Arkansas. Left camp along with a group of Japanese American …

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img Geo and James Spell (ddr-csujad-38-156)

Photographed are George Nobuo Naohara and James Spell probably taken at U.S. Army language school in Presidio of Monterey, California. The caption reads: Geo and James Spell. The backside note reads: Oct. 24, 47. PUT. George Naohara, PUT. James Spell. Title from caption. A photo from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 32. See this object …

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img George Naohara at U.S. Army language school (ddr-csujad-38-127)

Photographed is George Nobuo Naohara at U.S. Army language school in Presidio of Monterey, California, playing wrestling during break. The backside note reads: Dear Mitzi, Look who is fighting. It is Superman. It is George! It is a husband of Mitzi. Love, George. A photo from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 28. See this object …

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img George Naohara photo album (ddr-csujad-38-1)

A photo album compiled by George Nobuo Naohara, a Kibei Nisei, who was incarcerated at Manzanar, Jerome, and Tule Lake incarceration camps during World War II. Included are photographs taken during/after World War II, depicting his farm labor experience in Idaho and Utah, incarceration in the Jerome incarceration camp, and Army language school training. See this …

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doc MISLS album 1946 (ddr-csujad-1-208)

An album of the Military Intelligence Service Language School. It depicts the operation, training, life, and activities at the schools of Presidio San Francisco and Savage and Fort Snelling Minnesota, and also includes the description of the oversee campaign in the Pacific where MIS solders served. The names of MISLS graduates from three schools are listed. …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 5 (March 26, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-186)

Selected article titles: "Army Language School Colonel to Arrive Mon." (p. 1), "Procedure Set Up For Shoe-Rationing: Block Managers Are Taking Applications" (p. 1), "Poultry Farm Will Soon Supply Colony Notes" (p. 1), "Sewing Classes to Open: Sign-up Will Start Monday" (p. 1), "Tuleans Wed. in Minnesota" (p. 1), "Common People Are Grand, Relocated Tulean Writes: …

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vh Asano Terao Interview I Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-108-7)

Learning "ikebana," Japanese flower arranging, at Shintoku Jikka Girls' High School (Japanese language)

This interview was conducted in Japanese and was translated so as to convey Mrs. Terao's way of speaking as closely as possible. For example, there are instances in which she makes some grammatical errors. These mistakes are conveyed through similar grammatical errors in …

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vh Asano Terao Interview I Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-108-9)

Cultural expectations of Japanese women: learning flower arranging, tea ceremony in school (Japanese language)

This interview was conducted in Japanese and was translated so as to convey Mrs. Terao's way of speaking as closely as possible. For example, there are instances in which she makes some grammatical errors. These mistakes are conveyed through similar grammatical errors …

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vh Asano Terao Interview I Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-108-8)

Description of high school (Japanese language)

This interview was conducted in Japanese and was translated so as to convey Mrs. Terao's way of speaking as closely as possible. For example, there are instances in which she makes some grammatical errors. These mistakes are conveyed through similar grammatical errors in English in order to recreate Mrs. Terao's …

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vh Jim Hirabayashi Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1002-5-3)

Community life prewar: picnics, Japanese language school, church group

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead …

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vh Jimmie S. Matsuda Interview (ddr-densho-1000-311)

Nisei male. Born June 16, 1927, in Hood River, Oregon. Grew up in Hood River, where parents ran a farm. At the age of thirteen, went to Japan with family for a vacation and ended up staying there. Attended school in Japan and then was trained in the Japanese air force as a kamikaze pilot. Instead …

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img A funeral at the Seattle Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-1)

Reverend Hoshin Fujii presiding over the funeral. Buddhism first came to Seattle in 1896, and when Rev. Fujii took over the Seattle Buddhist Temple in 1908, there were congregations looking to build temples in places as discrete as Auburn, Vancouver, B.C., Spokane, and Yakima. By 1908, the Seattle Temple housed a dormitory for boys and played …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 43, No. 15 (October 12, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-41)

Selected article titles: " Masaoka ill, postpones trip to Japan a week" (p. 1), "55 of 65 Nisei public office seekers win in Hawaii primaries" (p. 1), "Tabulate 141,000 Japanese in U.S.; 85,000 in California" (p. 1), "Temporary farm workers continue to arrive by air" (p. 1), "Fresno-born Nisei interprets for Japanese emperor" (p. 2), "One …

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