116 items
116 items

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Tokio Hirotaka - Toshio Ito - Joe Matsuzawa Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-23-8)
Tom Matsuoka and the Vegetable Growers Association, Bellevue, Washington

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Tom Matsuoka Interview (ddr-densho-1000-47)
Kibei male. Born August 1, 1903, in Sprecklesville, Maui, Hawaii. Taken to Japan in 1905 and raised by grandparents. Returned to the United States in 1919, joining father at Barneston sawmill in Washington. Married and farmed in Bellevue, Washington. Founded Bellevue Seinenkai and managed the Bellevue Vegetable Growers Association prior to World War II. Was picked …

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Work-leave crew (ddr-densho-5-8)
Japanese Americans harvesting sugar beets on the Lundeen farm. The Tom Matsuoka family relocated permanently to Montana. Other workers were from Tule Lake concentration camp who received permission to leave during the sugar beet harvest. Front (left to right): Ray Marks, Gus Lundeen, and John Matsuzawa. Back: Rulee Matsuoka (child on far left), unidentified, Itaro Ito, …

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Father and children in front of car (ddr-densho-78-2)
Tom Matsuoka and two of his children stand in front of the Bellevue Vegetable Growers' Association building.

Collection
T. Matsuoka Collection (ddr-densho-78)
The T. Matsuoka collection consists of two photographs from the personal collection of Tom Matsuoka, who was interviewed by Densho in 1998.

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Tom Matsuoka Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-47-2)
Father recruited to work in Hawaiian sugarcane fields

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Tom Matsuoka Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-47-22)
Being picked up by the FBI and detained by the INS after the bombing of Pearl Harbor


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Tom Matsuoka Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-47-17)
Changes in farming business lead to the establishment of the Bellevue Vegetable Growers Association



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Tom Matsuoka Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-47-19)
Traveling to Japan in 1940 shortly before World War II

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Tom Matsuoka Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-47-25)
Joining family at the Pinedale Assembly Center, California: "So doggone hot..."






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Tom Matsuoka Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-47-20)
Establishment of Japanese language school in Bellevue


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Tom Matsuoka Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-47-16)
Establishing the Seinenkai and the Kokaido, the Japanese Community Hall



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Tom Matsuoka Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-47-21)
Noticing hardships in Japan just prior to World War II