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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 22 No. 17 (April 27, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-17)

Selected article titles: "Three Issei, Fathers of GIs, File Suit for Citizenship. Federal Court Action Taken By Japanese Aliens to Test Rights to Naturalization" (p. 1), "Tule Lake Center Will Be Transferred To Reclamation Use" (p. 1), "Validity of U.S. Citizenship Renunciations in WRA Camps Will Be Challenged by ACLU" (p. 2), "Shelter Assured All Evacuees …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 22 No. 10 (March 9, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-10)

Selected article titles: "JACL National Convention Urges Citizenship for Issei. Delegates Vote to Retain Headquarters in Salt Lake City; Seek Evacuation Compensation" (p. 1), "Restrictions on Hawaii, U.S. Mainland Travel Lifted for Oriental American Veterans" (p. 1), "247 Renunciants at Tule Lake Join 1000 Others in Filing Petition to Regain U.S. Rights" (p. 3), "Report Renunciant …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 32 No. 14 (April 7, 1951) (ddr-pc-23-14)

Selected article titles: "Rule Terminal Isle Group Eligible Under Claims Act. Precedent-Setting Adjudication Reverses Earlier Contention Held by Justice Department" (p. 1), "Masaoka Asks Action to Speed Payment of Evacuee Claims" (p. 1), "Renunciant Wants to Return to Volunteer for U.S. Army" (p. 2), "Contributions of Issei Group to American Life Stressed in JACL Testimony to …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 42, No. 5 (February 3, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-5)

Selected article titles: "Early Senate move on Mongolian labor bill urged by JACL" (p. 1), "'Home Again' lauded by Utah congressman as clear testimony of U.S. way of life" (p. 1), "White River Valley civic, business leaders sign petition to aid evacuees" (p. 1), "Nisei nominations by Ike in Senate" (p. 1), "Nisei columnist sees repercussions …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 43, No. 16 (October 19, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-42)

Selected article titles: "Temporary farm program OK reached in Central Cal" (p. 1), CCDC never opposed to program of temporary Japanese farm workers" (p. 1), "Christmas cheer drive opens, to aid local needy" (p. 2), "Prop. 13 vote outcome pictured as test of Nisei solidarity" (p. 3), "War brides subject of Auxiliary meet" (p. 6), "JACL …

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doc Essay: you can't have everything (ddr-csujad-48-28)

Essay by Yoshio Kusayanagi for Senior Problems class taught by Mr. Harry Bentley Wells, a teacher at Manzanar High School. Yoshio describes the need to try to get the most out of every day, and not waste away your life. He identifies the need to preserve through any hardship and give one's all to win past …

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doc Letter from Emiko [Amy] Terada to Miss Laura Thomas, May 2, 1944 (ddr-csujad-4-20)

A letter from Emiko Amy Terada, an incarceree at the Rohwer incarceration camp, to Miss Laura Thomas in Lawndale, California. In the letter, Emiko describes her life in the camp, such as planting vegetables and flowers in the garden. She also tries to purchase camera film, but describes the situation that they "have hard time to …

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doc Rohwer Outpost Vol. I No. 15 (December 16, 1942) (ddr-densho-143-16)

Selected article titles: "Citizens May Use Cameras" (p. 1), "Mail Order Department, Unit of Enterprises, States Sellers" (p. 1), "Farm Land Development Begins in Preparation for Spring Planting" (p. 1), "Only Wood For Fuel. Coal Will Not be Provided" (p. 1), "Presenting J.B. Hunter, Chief of Community Services Division" (p. 3), "Inter-Center Visitor Describes Relocation Life …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 107 (September 7, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-194)

Selected article titles: "Camp Folks Ready for Relocation"; "'Tokyo Rose' Taken Into Custody by Yank M. P.S."; "On the Other Hand"; "'Gentlemen, He'll Have to Answer to Me!'"; "Over the Top"; "Heap Praises on Mayor of Bay City"; "Missionaries Prepare to Go Back to Japan"; "Medicaid Care for Veterans"; "These are Some of the Things Soldiers …

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. III, No. 16 (ddr-densho-156-218)

Article titles: "American-Born Japs Allowed to Enter War Poster Contest"; "Utah Officials Study Evacuee Education Problem"; "Japanese Workers Help in Idaho Beet-Thinning"; "More Traitors"; "Aliens are Called Eager to Assist America in War"; "Colombia Moves Axis Citizens"; "Tule Lake Project Population 10,946"; "War Relocation Authority Opens Cody Office"; "Evacuated Japs Dine as Family Unit"; "Wilkes Leaves …

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. III, No. 17 (ddr-densho-156-219)

Article titles: "Loyal American-Born Japanese Helped to Trap Trouble Makers"; "It's News to Me"; "Chinook Area Hopes to Import More Japs"; "Nelson Named Sacaton School Superintendent"; "Life Goes on as Usual in Relocation Camp"; "Laborers Needed to Complete Japanese Relocation Project Near Eden"; "Dr. Neher to be Head Physician at Jap Camp"; "Worth Keeping in Mind"; …

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img Thomas Edison and Mina Miller sitting in a garden (ddr-njpa-1-236)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Edison Said to Have Been Briefly Seriously Ill. (New York) Rengo. The American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who invented and discovered most of the necessities of our modern cultural life and has made the greatest human contribution to so-called material civilization, had been seriously ill for some time but has now reported …

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doc Letter from Ai Jin Tsai to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-312)

Family is safe. Tsai family moved to country Mar-Aug 1945. Ai-gi's clinic slightly damaged. Ai-Le in Hong Kong safe but was captured by Japanese; later released. Ai-jin learned about Ai Chih Tsai's life from G. Kerr. Ai-jin wants to start a business and wants Ai Chih to find a contact in America for Ai-jin to be …

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doc Letter from Tadashi Ishida to Mr. & Mrs. Y Ishida (ddr-densho-535-19)

Tad had a chemical warfare class and got to smell some gases: "boy, it sure stinks!" The soldiers also learned how to use their gas masks. Tad mentions that they all did a trial in a gas chamber where they had to put their masks on the second they detected gas in the room: "I never …

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doc Photograph album (ddr-densho-316-1)

A family photograph album documenting the Sakahara and Tanaka families' pre-World War II life on Vashon Island and other areas of Washington State. Dan Sakahara was a councilman, block leader, chairman of the red cross, treasurer of the PTA, and temporary chairman of the PTA at the Tule Lake Concentration Camp. He was also president of …

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av Two Lives: The Sadaichi Kubota Story (ddr-densho-1024-122)

Two Nisei soldiers join the 442 and are assigned to the same squad in I Company, 3rd Battalion at Camp Shelby. They fight through Italy and France. Two weeks before the end of the war with Germany, one is killed by a sniper. Sixty years later, the survivor returns to Italy to pay his respects to …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. III No. 17 (August 5, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-12)

Selected article titles: "Education Subject of Third Forum" (p. 1), "Coals Stoves Promised" (p. 1), "Oratorical Contests Announced" (p. 1), "Voters May Cast Absentee Ballots" (p. 1), "Recreation Staff Reorganizes" (p. 1), "Star-dusting with Jobo Nakamura" (p. 2), "More Services Listed for City" (p. 2), "Band Needs More Members" (p. 2), "Comics, 'Life,' Top Sales" (p. …

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vh Fred Okrand Interview (ddr-densho-122-15)

White male. Born 1918. Former longtime legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. Was an advocate for civil rights throughout his career, and worked on behalf of Japanese Americans during the World War II incarceration.

(This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, …

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vh Andy Noguchi Interview (ddr-densho-122-27)

Sansei male. President of the Florin chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League in 1999, and one of the authors of a resolution to recognize the constitutional stand of the World War II resisters of conscience.

(This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World …

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vh Frank Emi Interview II Segment 21 (ddr-densho-122-20-21)

Life after World War II: losing touch with other Fair Play Committee leaders, working for the post office, teaching judo

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 …

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Narrator Frank Abe

Sansei male. Born 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio. During World War II, father was incarcerated the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentratin camp, Wyoming. Mother came to the United States from Japan in 1950. Frank grew up in Cleveland, where his parents owned a boarding house. Earned a B.A. in theater directing from the …

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Collection Guyo Tajiri Collection (ddr-densho-338)

The Guyo Tajiri Collection consists of photographs, correspondence, and documents chronicling the life of Tsuguyo "Guyo" Marion Okagaki Tajiri and her husband Larry Tajiri. Photographs cover Guyo Tajiri's life and family from infancy through adulthood. The letters and documents highlight Guyo and Larry Tajiri's work running the Pacific Citizen from 1942 to 1952, Guyo's help in …

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Collection Suzuki Family Collection (ddr-densho-243)

The Suzuki Family Collection contains photographs from Warren Suzuki. They cover life at Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho during the war and a pilgrimage back in later years.

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Collection Kamekichi Joseph Tokita and Haruko Ann (Suzuki) Tokita Family Collection (ddr-densho-538)

Biography documenting the life of Haruko Ann (Suzuki) Tokita from her birth to her death. The biography primarily focuses on her time as a wife, mother, and widow.

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Collection Shimada Family Collection (ddr-densho-255)

The Shimada Family Collection consists of journals written by Taji Shimada from 1924 through 1971 and a number of photographs recording life as a farming family in Utah.

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