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vh Chico Uyeda Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1012-4-8)

Talking with kids about life experiences (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this …

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vh Chico Uyeda Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1012-4-6)

Daily life before going to camp (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this …

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vh Frank Emi Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1002-9-13)

Reasons for joining the resisters' cause: "I felt so strongly about the injustice of it that I just had to do something"

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 …

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vh Jimmie Omura Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1002-11-20)

Becoming the editor of the Rocky Shimpo newspaper in 1944, publishing an editorial in support of the Fair Play Committee in Heart Mountain

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. …

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vh Mits Koshiyama Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1002-6-5)

Qualifying answer on "loyalty" question regarding military service: "Give me my rights back as American citizen and I'll be willing to go"

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 …

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vh Clifford Uyeda Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-122-19-16)

Desire for the JACL to admit its past wrongs during World War II, and apologize for the way some of its members treated the draft resisters

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 …

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Collection Frank Kubo Collection (ddr-densho-128)

The Frank Kubo Collection, 1910s-1960s, focuses on the leisure and business activities of a group of Japanese Americans from Seattle, Washington. Included are photographs of Seattle landmarks, Tsutakawa Company and Furuya Company picnics and camping trips, and Pacific Market, a Japanese American operated grocery store on Jackson Street in Seattle. Also featured are several photographs of …

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vh Fred Korematsu Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1012-1-1)

Description of prewar life, barred from enlisting in the Coast Guard (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 44, No. 26 (June 28, 1957) (ddr-pc-29-26)

Select article titles: "Administration Civil Rights Bill On Senate Calendar; Fight Looms" (p. 1); "Congress Sends Claims Pay Bill To White House" (p. 1); "Supreme Court asks for new arguments in expatriation case" (p. 1); "Gakuen dissolved, set up scholarship" (p. 1); "Protest Use Of Vested Funds For School Purposes" (p. 2); "Nisei judge warns against …

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vh Roy H. Matsumoto Interview (ddr-densho-1000-153)

Nisei male. Born May 1, 1913, in Laguna, California. Lived in Japan from childhood through teenage years, before returning to the United States during high school. Incarcerated in the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Volunteered for the U.S. army in 1942, and was inducted in the Military Intelligence Service. Selected …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 15 (June 5, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-42)

Selected article titles: "Dies' Group Hearing on WRA Opens Monday. Field Men to Give Reports On Centers. Probe Shows Laxity in Evacuee Releases, Rep. Thomas Claims" (p. 1), "Loyalty of Nisei Questioned by Dies' Investigator" (p. 1), "Opportunity in Mid-West Cities Offered. Dies' Charges Lead to Discontinuance of Training Program" (p. 1), "Public Usage of Enemy …

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av Old Man River (ddr-densho-1024-29)

Filmed version of Cynthia Gates Fujikawa's one-woman play of the same name about her search to unearth the secrets in the life of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa. The play premiered in New York in 1997. Gates and documentary film director Allan Holzman filmed her performances during the run of the play in Los Angeles in …

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vh Frank Abe Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-528)

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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vh Frank Abe Interview III (ddr-densho-1000-531)

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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vh Frank Abe Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-530)

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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vh Ben Kuroki - Shige Kuroki Interview (ddr-densho-122-21)

Ben Kuroki, Nisei male. Born May 16, 1917, in Hershey, Nebraska. Admitted to the Army Air Corps and flew thirty missions in Europe in a B-24 as a tailgunner and top turret gunner. Earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses and was acclaimed as the first Nisei war hero. Spoke at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and two other camps …

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Collection CSU Dominguez Hills Kuwahara Family Papers (ddr-csujad-35)

The Kuwahara Family Papers contains documentation of the Kuwahara family depicting the daily life and people incarcerated in the Poston camp in Arizona during World War II. Materials include: junior high school, high school, and camp community newsletters in both Japanese and English, a short travel journal written by Kenji Kaware of his time away from …

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Collection Hayashida Collection (ddr-densho-61)

The Hayashida Family collection includes photos and documents showing daily life of the Nishinaka family, including Fumiko Nishinaka Hayashida and siblings on Bainbridge Island before the war, documents related to the disposition and caretaking of the Fumiko and Saburo Hayashida property while the family was interned at Manzanar and Minidoka, correspondence with friends and family on …

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Collection Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection (ddr-densho-1001)

This collection consists of interviews conducted by the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community (BIJAC). BIJAC's mission is to share with the wider community the history and culture of Japanese Americans, and to promote the safeguarding of civil and constitutional rights for all. Japanese Americans living on Bainbridge Island were the first of more than 120,000 forced …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 44, No. 17 (April 26, 1957) (ddr-pc-29-17)

Select article titles: "'Red' smear over Hawaii statehood refuted by CL; anti-Nisei editorial in Oklahoma slammed by senator" (p. 1); "Anti-Japanese bigotry injected by Tulsa editorial fighting Hawaiian statehood" (p. 1); "House surveying Japanese Labor Program in Cal." (p. 1); "1st Nisei 'reported killed' in Korea very healthy, re-enlists for 6 years" (p. 1); "Sponsors seek …

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doc Scrapbook of newspaper clipping (ddr-densho-483-95)

Loose scrapbook pages containing newspaper and magazine clipping, bulletins, program, school essay, photograph, and ephemera. Selected article titles and additional contents: Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Bainbridge Japs prepare to leave" (p. 1), "Tired old woodenface sets new attendance record" (p. 3), Hunt High School Commencement Program (p. 4), "Prober Dies would find dust but no 'coddling' at center" …

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av Chrysanthemums and Salt (ddr-densho-1024-60)

Documentary film by Dianne Fukami on the Japanese American community in San Mateo, California, from its late 1800s origins to the outbreak of World War II. As hinted at by the film's title, Chrysanthemums and Salt largely focuses on two of the major industries that employed Japanese Americans before the war, growing and marketing chrysanthemums and …

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doc County Court ruling on James Faucett's estate (ddr-densho-493-5)

Decision by Judge Adam Beeler: Lays out the history of the ownership of the land; its occupancy and the history of who had performed labor there; details the relationships of all those involved to the deceased; and history of the suit—in which the sister and niece of the deceased, Emma Morrisey and May Pickett, respectively, filed …

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av Speak Out for Justice: August 6, 1981 - Part 2 (ddr-densho-1024-110)

Mental health professionals provide insight into the detrimental effects of camp trauma and the impact on psychological and physical health. Japanese Americans speak out on the extreme racial prejudice and discrimination experienced in post-camp life. Introduction by Karen Umemoto, Executive Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and Michael Nishimura, member of Nikkei Progressives. Part …

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vh Art Hansen Interview (ddr-densho-122-23)

White male. Born October 10, 1938, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Education History: BA, MA, Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara. Work History: Professor of History and Asian American Studies, California State University, Fullerton (1966-Present); Visiting Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1979-1980; Editor, Oral History Review, 1980-1987; President, Southwest Oral History Association (1991-1992); …

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