277 items
277 items
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Kenge Kobayashi Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-37-14)
Siblings coerced to renounce U.S. citizenship at Tule Lake concentration camp
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Kenge Kobayashi Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-37-5)
Description of Tulare Assembly Center and Gila River concentration camp
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Kenge Kobayashi Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-37-7)
The family decision to answer "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 53 (ddr-densho-1000-164-53)
Description of Fort Stanton internment camp
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 50 (ddr-densho-1000-164-50)
Writing a book about personal experiences and life of father as "a gift to my children and my grandchildren"
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1000-164-35)
Father arrested by the FBI and removed from Tule Lake along with sixty-nine others
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-164-11)
Father's arrest by the FBI: targeted because of childhood friendship with Japanese admiral
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-164-16)
Observing the generational shift in camp: Nisei take over the primary roles, while Issei are supporting
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-164-34)
Observing changes in the pro-Japan organizations during the institution of the renunciation program
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-164-10)
Destroying Japanese possessions: "We don't want anything that would incriminate us as being Japanese"
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 44 (ddr-densho-1000-164-44)
Life in Japan, postwar: working for a land reclamation project, then finding a job with a Japanese construction company as an interpreter
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-164-12)
Returning to school after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, getting in fights with other students over racist name-calling
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 43 (ddr-densho-1000-164-43)
Initial experiences in Japan: freezing cold, living on army surplus rations
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 51 (ddr-densho-1000-164-51)
Many years later, piecing together father's wartime experiences in a Department of Justice internment camp
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 55 (ddr-densho-1000-164-55)
Thoughts on current events and the aftermath of September 11, 2001: "history is repeating itself"
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 52 (ddr-densho-1000-164-52)
Recounting father's experiences at the Fort Stanton internment camp
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-164-17)
Discussion with father on journey to Topaz concentration camp, father indicates desire to leave camp as soon as possible
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-164-6)
Childhood memories of Mount Eden, California: kenjinkai picnics, father is community's Japanese school teacher
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 46 (ddr-densho-1000-164-46)
Reflecting on father's immigration experience upon own return to U.S.
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 49 (ddr-densho-1000-164-49)
Mother's postwar life in San Francisco, California
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 40 (ddr-densho-1000-164-40)
An emotional reunion with father on ship bound for Japan
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-164-20)
Memories of father's friend who was shot and killed by a sentry in camp