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vh Henry Fukuhara Interview II (ddr-manz-1-65)

Nisei male. Born April 25, 1913, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in California prior to World War II. Removed to Manzanar concentration camp, California, during the war. Left Manzanar in 1943 and lived in various locations, eventually settling in New York and California. Mr. Fukuhara was a prominent artist.

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vh Henry Fukuhara Interview I (ddr-manz-1-3)

Nisei male. Born April 25, 1913, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in California prior to World War II. Removed to Manzanar concentration camp, California, during the war. Left Manzanar in 1943 and lived in various locations, eventually settling in New York and California. Mr. Fukuhara was a prominent artist.

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vh Heidi Sakazaki Interview (ddr-densho-1010-15)

Nisei female. Born March 28, 1928, in Clarksburg, California. Grew up in the Sacramento area prewar. During World War II, was removed with family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, worked in Utah and Los Angeles before eventually returning to Sacramento.

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vh Yukiko Llewellyn Interview (ddr-chi-1-13)

Nisei female. Born April 22, 1939 in Los Angeles California. During World War II, sent with mother to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Left camp for Cleveland, Ohio, under the sponsorship of a Buddhist church. Grew up in Cleveland, where mother ran a boarding house.

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vh Hiroshi Uyehara Interview (ddr-phljacl-1-13)

Nisei male. Born January 1, 1916, in Oakland, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area where father started a fish cake factory. Attended UCLA and UC Berkeley and then worked as an electrical draftsman for the Department of Water and Power for the City of Los Angeles. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, …

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vh Alan Kumamoto Interview (ddr-densho-1000-464)

Sansei male. Born January 21, 1940, in Los Angeles, California. While very young, removed with family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Father joined the Military Intelligence Service out of camp, and Alan and his mother resettled in Chicago, Illinois. After father rejoined the family, they returned to …

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Collection CSU Dominguez Hills Hiroshi Fukuwa Manzanar Diary (ddr-csujad-34)

The Hiroshi Fukuwa Manzanar Diary consists of a diary written by Hiroshi Fukuwa, Kibei Nisei of Los Angeles, California, along with newsletters, clippings, and handwritten notes created/collected in the incarceration camps during World War II. The diary details his incarceration experiences in the Manzanar camp in California, the Gila River camp in Arizona, and the Tule …

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doc Department of Justice Alien Enemy Control Unit Routing Slip (ddr-one-5-221)

Photocopy of a declassified routing slip for Keizaburo Koyama. In the remarks section of the slip, a rehearing was recommend on July 30, 1943 and that files for Koyama's case were requested and then transferred to Los Angeles, California.

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av Yoshi Inose Interview (ddr-densho-400-6)

Yoshi Inose was born on September 24, 1908, in Los Angeles, California. She was one of three children, and her parents' names were Seijiro and Soko Shibuya. Her father was a lawyer and the first publisher for the Rafu Shimpo and her mother was a koto instructor. After World War II broke out, the family was …

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vh Thomas Shigekuni Interview (ddr-densho-1000-297)

Nisei male. Born August 4, 1929, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles where parents ran a nursery business. During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada concentration camp, Colorado. After leaving camp, lived briefly in Illinois before returning to California.

(This material is based upon work …

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vh Grace Shinoda Nakamura Interview (ddr-densho-1003-8)

Nisei female. Born February 18, 1927, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, lived for a time in Colorado before returning to California. After the war, became a teacher and an artist.

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vh Jeff Furumura Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-533)

Sansei male. Born November 23, 1950, in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, father was in a tuberculosis sanitarium, then was taken to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and mother was sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Parents met in Chicago, Illinois, after leaving the camps. …

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vh Jeff Furumura Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-539)

Sansei male. Born November 23, 1950, in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, father was in a tuberculosis sanitarium, then was taken to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and mother was sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Parents met in Chicago, Illinois, after leaving the camps. …

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vh Ann Sugimoto Interview (ddr-manz-1-72)

Nisei female. Born September 22, 1916, in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Venice, California. Married before World War II, and removed during the war to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Had a child in camp. After leaving Manzanar, lived in Ohio for a number of years before returning to California.

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img [Nisei Week] (ddr-csujad-29-242)

Photograph of a street during Los Angeles Nisei Week. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P185

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img [Nisei Week] (ddr-csujad-29-240)

Photograph of a street during Los Angeles Nisei Week. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P183

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doc Postcard from Rafu Zenshuji Betsuin to Mr. M. Hamada, February 1, 1950 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-299)

An announcement from Rafu Zenshuji Betsuin, Los Angeles, California, to M. Hamada regarding an annual meeting. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_06_15_001

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av George Fukayama (ddr-ajah-8-1)

George Fukayama was born in Los Angeles, California, on February 21, 1926. During World War II, he served with the Military Intelligence Service and was assigned to ATIS (Allied Translator Interpreter Section) during the occupation of Japan after the war. Moved to Alameda, California, after military service.

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vh Patricia Mariko Morikawa Sakamoto Interview (ddr-manz-1-167)

Sansei female. Born April 20, 1944, in Manzanar, California. Parents married in camp, but separated soon after when father returned with his family to Japan. Left Manzanar for the Burbank trailer camp, then moved with mother and stepfather to Los Angeles, California. Active with the Manzanar Committee.

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doc Postcard from Kazumitsu Matsumoto Accounting Office to Mr. Sadatsuka Hamada, June 28, 1949 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-300)

A postcard from Kazumitsu Matsumoto Accounting Office in Los Angeles, California to Sadatsuka Hamada in Compton, California, regarding reparation application. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_06_15_002

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av Ken Inose Interview (ddr-densho-400-5)

Ken Inose was born in 1933 in Los Angeles, California, as one of four children to Sejiro and Yoshiko Inose. Before World War II, Ken lived in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles where he had ethnically diverse neighbors. His father was a salesman and his mother was a housewife. When the war broke out, …

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vh Yasu Koyamatsu Momii Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-374-4)

Moving to Los Angeles, California

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 material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.

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doc K. C. Lee: chop suey supplies oriental medicines (ddr-csujad-5-170)

A business card of K. C. Lee, chop suey supplies, oriental medicines. A store in Los Angeles, California. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_02_15_007

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vh Sumiye Takeno Interview (ddr-manz-1-36)

Nisei female. Born November 17, 1922, in Florin, California. Grew up in Florin, where parents operated a farm. Just prior to World War II, attended sewing school in Los Angeles. During the war, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Married in camp, and moved to Denver, Colorado.

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Collection Rosie Maruki Kakuuchi Collection (ddr-manz-10)

The Rosie Maruki Kakuuchi Collection is comprised of photographs from Rosie Maruki and her family's experiences primarily during World War II at the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Materials include snapshots of family members and friends in camp as well as some postwar photos of the family in Los Angeles and immigration documents from Rosie's Issei parents.

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