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Narrator Ann Fujii Lindwall

In this session, Elaine Kim led a panel of Elaine Reiko Akagi's friends (Ann Fujii Lindwall, Arlene Oki, Karen Yoshitomi, and Bill Tashima) in a remembrance conversation on Akagi. Elaine Reiko Akagi devoted her life to JACL, teaching children with special education needs, and a love of animals She was active in the Detroit Jr. JACL …

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Collection Bob and Masa (Ogawa) Nakayama Collection (ddr-densho-420)

The Bob and Masa (Ogawa) Nakayama Collection consists of 43 photographic prints and a graduation announcement documenting Bob and Masa's experiences during World War II. Included are scenes from life in Manzanar and Minidoka concentration camps, as well as from military life both in the United States and abroad.

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vh Harry Ueno Interview Segment 39 (ddr-densho-1002-7-39)

Postwar life: working as a farmer in California

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 primarily …

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vh Jim Hirabayashi Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1002-5-7)

Issei life: community associations, cultural traditions

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 primarily focusing on …

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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 Art Hansen Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-122-23-12)

Ending of Nisei magazine Current Life

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 Art Hansen Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-122-23-14)

Jimmie Omura's life in Denver during World War II

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 …

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doc Pinedale Logger Vol. I No. 3 (June 6, 1942) (ddr-densho-192-3)

Selected Article Titles: "1446 Votes Cast. Center Council to Name Mayor Next Week" (p. 1), "Comedy, Music, Dancers Highlight Show Saturday" (p. 1), "Rumor-Tism" (p. 2), "Comfort Foreseen in Barrack Life" (p. 3), "How to Crash Mess by Toots Nakamura" (p. 3), "Feeding Stations for Tots Soon" (p. 6), "Overflooding of Showers Problem" (p. 6), "First …

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. IV No. 21 (May 19, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-233)

Selected article titles: "First Special Train Coach Leaves for Coast. 43 Residents Return Home with Other Movements Scheduled for June 4, 18" (p. 1), "Officer Says 'Pro' Hate Chief Missing Chance to Best Hitler" (p. 1), "Speaker Raps Exclusionists at Demo Club" (p. 1), "Aliens Must Have Permits" (p. 3), "Youthful Issei Takes Own Life" (p. …

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. IV No. 28 (July 7, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-240)

Selected article titles: "2209 Leave Center in Six Months. Residents Must Formulate Plans to Avoid Hardships Later, Carroll Declares" (p. 1), "Reverend Murphy Fights League. Unsubstantiated Claims Made by Either Insincere Ignorant or Liars, He Says" (p. 1), "Soldiers Will Accept Nisei, Myer Predicts" (p. 1), "Most Evacuees are Returning to California" (p. 1), "Resettlers Find …

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. IV No. 20 (May 12, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-232)

Selected article titles: "Land Law May be Invalid" (p. 1), "One-Third of Residents Have Finished Program to Leave Center by June" (p. 1), "'A Fair Chance, a Fair Trial' Rabbi Asks for Issei Worker" (p. 2), "Editorial: The Battle Continues" (p. 4), "Says Discrimination Weakens Fibre of American Way of Life" (p. 5), "Center Residents are …

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img Sculptor posing with a statue (ddr-njpa-4-1909)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Waiting for fall art. At an intensely hot studio. Miss Kameno Ota is aiming for the Japan Fine Arts Institution Exhibition. She is the only woman artist to show some of her works at the exhibition. She is busy completing a life-sized woman statue. However, she said, 'It is very hard for …

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img Sculptor posing with a statue (ddr-njpa-4-1908)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Waiting for fall art. At an intensely hot studio. Miss Kameno Ota is aiming for the Japan Fine Arts Institution Exhibition. She is the only woman artist to show some of her works at the exhibition. She is busy completing a life-sized woman statue. However, she said, 'It is very hard for …

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doc U.S. Department of Justice Alien Enemy Questionnaire page 16 of 26. (ddr-one-5-136)

Photocopy of a declassified questionnaire used to determine if the person named is to be considered an enemy alien. This page covers questions 65a - b of 111. This question concerns ownership of property within the United States and its value. Dr. Koyama lists a car bought in 1936 for $300, his Oregon Life insurance policy, …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 24 No. 24 (June 21, 1947) (ddr-pc-19-25)

Selected article titles: "Gov. Warren Signs Measure Repealing California Law on Separate Schools for Orientals" (p. 1), "House Passes Amendment To Law on Soldiers Brides. Will Permit Entry Into U.S. of Japan-Born, Canada Nisei Wives of American Soldiers" (p. 1), "Eighteen Issei Receive First Citizen Papers" (p. 3), "Nisei War Veterans Face Job Discrimination Upon Return …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 17 (October 23, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-43)

Selected article titles: "20 tons of relief clothing crated in L.A. for Nagoya" (p. 1), "U.S. Civil Rights Commission starts 3rd year program" (p. 1), "Sansei school safety patrol officer acts quickly to save life of another" (p. 1), "Temporary farm workers return to Japan, very little said favorably of program" (p. 3), "African official hails …

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doc Background for the relocation program (ddr-csujad-48-110)

Titled as: The background for the relocation program (prepared for information of Staff of the War Relocation Authority). It also describes the early Japanese migration to the United States and some of the economic and social aspects of American Japanese life. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9919. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese …

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doc Syllabi for classes taught by Harry Bentley Wells at Manzanar High School (ddr-csujad-48-93)

Syllabi for 7th Grade Social Living, Social Living: Grade Eight, Ninth grade social living, World History and Geography: Grade Ten, American Life and Institutions: Grade Eleven, 12th Grade Social Social Problems. Taught by Harry Bentley Wells at Manzanar High school. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9902. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American …

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doc Nisei and Issei find that this is America (ddr-csujad-19-44)

This is an article from the "Magazine of America," published on June 5, 1943, by Yoichi Matsuda which describes the life of the people of Japanese ancestry and their fear of the mob and the "FBI" after Japan executed a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization …

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doc JA community mourns death of historian and activist Michi Weglyn (ddr-csujad-24-129)

An obituary of Michi Weglyn written by her lifelong friend Sachi W. Seko and published in "Pacific Citizen," the newspaper of the Japanese American Citizens league (JACL). The article is an emotional tribute to Weglyn and a vivid description of the end of her life. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization …

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doc Rohwer Outpost Vol. II No. 6 (January 20, 1943) (ddr-densho-143-25)

Selected article titles: "Clothing Allowance Begins. All Blocks to be Covered by Friday; Schedule Released" (p. 1), "Rohwer Citizen Loses Life in Line of Duty; Struck by Tree" (p. 1), "Residents Must File WCCA, WRA Wages on Income Tax Returns" (p. 1), "Four WRA Employment Offices Open in Midwest" (p. 3), "Survey Shows West Coast Against …

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doc Colorado Times Vol. 31, No. 4377 (October 20, 1945) (ddr-densho-150-88)

Selected article titles: "The Open Forum: Returning Remaining Evacuees to Normal Life is Heroic Task"; "N.H. Ministers Welcome Resettlers"; "An Essay: Democracy's Wasteland"; "Shinto-Masunaga Nuptials"; "Col. Singles, Commander, 100th Infantry, to Speak to Nisei Here"; "Nisei Club to Sponsor Benefit Skating Party"; "End of Amache"; "Windows Broken in S.F. Home of Former Denver Nisei"; "Nisei Reenlists …

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. V, No. 4 (ddr-densho-156-244)

Article titles: "Attention! Potato, Beet Growers"; "Milk Shortage Felt in Cheyenne, Laramie, Casper and Cody Areas"; "Japanese Evacuation Again"; "Portland Assembly Center to be Cleared"; "Democracy: Japs Still Vote--"; "Use of Jap Cotton Labor is Proposed"; "Rachford Outlines Labor Program for Japanese Colonists"; "Blaze Destroys Boiler Room at Heart Mountain"; "5,700 at Heart Mountain Project"; "Life …

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vh Nick Nagatani Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-535)

Sansei male. Born August 6, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois. Spent in early life in Chicago before family moved to Los Angeles, California, where father worked in the defense industry. Joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War. After returning from Vietnam, joined a grassroots community organization known as the Yellow Brotherhood. Founded the …

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vh Nick Nagatani Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-540)

Sansei male. Born August 6, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois. Spent in early life in Chicago before family moved to Los Angeles, California, where father worked in the defense industry. Joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War. After returning from Vietnam, joined a grassroots community organization known as the Yellow Brotherhood. Founded the …

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