277 items
277 items
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-164-24)
Feeling shocked upon hearing of family's decision to go to Japan; labeled a "disloyal" by peers
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-164-1)
Family background: mother an older Nisei, born in California
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-164-36)
Personal feelings after father's arrest: angry, but "kind of proud"
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 33 (ddr-densho-1000-164-33)
A shift in the objectives and leadership of the pro-Japan organizations after announcement that people would be allowed to renounce their U.S. citizenship
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 47 (ddr-densho-1000-164-47)
Gaining father's approval to leave Japan and return to the U.S.: "he gave me his blessing"
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-164-27)
Witnessing the "chaos" of Tule Lake: disputes between factions of people
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 41 (ddr-densho-1000-164-41)
Preparing for life in Japan: learning the language, feeling worried
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-164-15)
Memories of mass removal: "Gee, where's my rights? What's happening to me?"
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-164-2)
Father's background in Japan: attended a prestigious high school
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 39 (ddr-densho-1000-164-39)
Observing mother's peers turning against her after her husband's arrest and removal from Tule Lake
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Tom Akashi Interview Segment 42 (ddr-densho-1000-164-42)
Arrival in Japan: confronted with poverty and despair: "it was a dismal, dismal situation"
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-106-2)
Description of the family farm in San Jose, California, "[W]e worked three days for $10..."
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-106-7)
Making Japanese shoes for kids while in an assembly center
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-106-14)
Memories of martial law in Tule Lake, food scarcity, riots, Hoshidan group grows in strength
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-106-16)
"Exonerated" of all charges by a judge in Eureka, California for lack of due process
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-106-1)
Family's arrival in the U.S., early jobs as fruit picker, houseboy
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-106-12)
Atmosphere in Tule Lake "segregation center," "We didn't mix too well"
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-106-9)
Running into German POWs in Grand Junction, Colorado while on work crew
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-106-3)
Events following Pearl Harbor: a Caucasian friend's tearful warning, and opportunistic farmers look to cash in on the mass removal
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-106-11)
Jobs in Tule Lake, working on the construction crew
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-106-8)
Working on the Shoshone Dam while in Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-106-10)
Voluntarily transferring to Tule Lake "segregation center," California, "The family's got to stay together, and we are going to Tule Lake"
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-106-5)
Returning to California after incarceration, salvaging equipment for the family farm
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Jimi Yamaichi Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-106-4)
A friend's offer to care for the farm while family is incarcerated