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vh Jim Akutsu Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-122-12-7)

Answers to the so-called "loyalty questions"

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding …

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vh Jim Akutsu Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-122-12-4)

Feeling disappointment upon meeting Minoru Yasui

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding …

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vh Jim Akutsu Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-122-12-8)

Receiving the silent treatment from the Japanese American community postwar

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily …

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vh Jim Akutsu Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-122-12-2)

Forms of resistance: "repatriation" strategy

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the …

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vh Jim Akutsu Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-122-12-14)

Younger brother's experience also as a draft resister

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on …

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vh Jim Akutsu Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-122-12-10)

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-12-10/

vh Jim Akutsu Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-122-12-3)

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-12-3/

vh Jim Akutsu Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-122-12-6)

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-12-6/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 78, No. 5 (February 8, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-5)

Selected article titles: "Aliens Eligible for Federal Job, Appellate Holds" (p. 1), "'Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida': Half of Film to Be Shot in Japan" (pp. 1, 4), "Cranston-Kennedy Bilingual Education Bill Adopted by Senate Subcommittee" (p. 3), and "Monterey Peninsula JACL: Matsunaga Sees Nixon to Resign" (p. 3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 78, No. 3 (January 25, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-3)

Selected article titles: "Reagan Wants Jpn. For State Use" (p. 1), "Washington Newsletter: Anti-Japanese American Acts (It Can Happen Here, Again)" (p. 2), "'Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida': Hollywood Film Production Starts on Saga of Nisei Strandee in Japan" (p. 3), and "Book Review: Manzanar in Retrospect" (p. 5).

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img [Boys basketball team] (ddr-csujad-29-227)

Photograph of the Bears Boys Basketball team. Front row left to right: Ubo (?) Harper, Zane Hayes, Jim Riskowski, Franz. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P170

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vh Gerald Fukui Interview (ddr-densho-1000-291)

Yonsei male. Born February 14, 1953, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles. After graduating from college, took over the family's prestigious mortuary business. Active in several community organizations in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo including Nisei Week and the Japanese American National Museum.

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doc Letter to Mike Masaoka from Ed Yamamoto (ddr-chijacl-1-63)

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img The pyramid o'boy (ddr-densho-378-34)

Cutout image of 6 men posing together in a pyramid for the camera. Front row identified left to right: Tokio, Stogie, and Henry. 2nd row identified left to right: Nori and Jim. Back row identified as Al. Caption on page: "At F.A. Wilcon Ranch During Summer '1926'" and The pyramid O'boy Wate-melon!!"

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doc Letter from Shigeki Hiratsuka to [Dorothy] Nakamura, August 23, 1991 (ddr-csujad-55-2097)

Correspondence from Shigeki Hiratsuka to Dorothy Nakamura regarding a copy of a letter from Jim Kolbe and the redress and reparations movement. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2200

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img Group posing outside two buildings (ddr-ajah-6-427)

Caption below photo: Backrow L to R: Harry Ikeda, Jim (last name unknown), Frances Yasuyo Ikeda, unknown, unknown, Mitsuko (Harry's wife). Front row L to R: unknown, Mitsuru (holding camera) Ikeda and unknown young girl. Probably posing at the Ikeda home and business at 2530 Blanding Avenue, Alameda, CA. December 5, 1931

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 113, No. 12 [October 18, 1991] (ddr-pc-63-37)

Select article titles: "Manzanar Group rejects alternate plan for memorial" (p. 1), "Florin Chapter gets human rights award" (p. 1), "Japanese American exhibit planned for Imperial Valley" (p. 1), "Bush veto of unemployment act criticized" (p. 1), "San Diego university policies protested" (p. 1), "Man gets 4 years in Jim Loo case" (p. 1).

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doc Letter from Leo Uchida to James Waegell, Jack, and George, May 22, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-2336)

Correspondence from Leo Uchida to Jim [James Waegell], Jack, and George regarding Uchida's life and schooling at Manzanar incarceration camp during World War II. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2442

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vh Mark M. Nakagawa Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-301)

Sansei male. Born February 16, 1955, in Los Angeles, California. Graduated from UCLA and the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. Served as pastor in Sacramento and West Los Angeles before being appointed Senior Minister at the Centenary United Methodist Church in Los Angeles in 2000.

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vh Mark M. Nakagawa Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-288)

Sansei male. Born February 16, 1955, in Los Angeles, California. Graduated from UCLA and the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. Served as pastor in Sacramento and West Los Angeles before being appointed Senior Minister at the Centenary United Methodist Church in Los Angeles in 2000.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-288/