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vh Minoru "Min" Tsubota Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-149-25)

Discussion of the Kibei at Fort Bliss, Texas, memories of clashes with Caucasian soldiers

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vh Minoru "Min" Tsubota Interview Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-149-38)

Memories of Dachau concentration camp

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vh Minoru "Min" Tsubota Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-149-14)

Feeling comfortable playing in mixed-race music groups while in high school

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vh Minoru "Min" Tsubota Interview Segment 42 (ddr-densho-1000-149-42)

Postwar success in the insurance business

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vh Minoru "Min" Tsubota Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-149-26)

Taking a trip to Price, Utah, and meeting future wife, Cherrie

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2027 (January 26, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-3)

Selected article titles: "I. Magnin, Joseph Magnin Urging Kenzo Label Change" (p. 1), "Yankee Samurai: Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory" (pp. 1, 9-12), "Japan's Pearl Harbor Spy Saw Evacuation as 'Cruel Joke'" (p. 2), and "Min Yasui Letters: From the Multnomah Jail" (p. 5).

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img Wedding family portrait (ddr-densho-359-1461)

Sadao and Ayako Masuko wedding portrait. On far right are Toshiyuki, Haruno, and Min Okano. Niki Okano is next to the bride.

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img Nisei boys at the beach (ddr-densho-259-127)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[This is] the Columbia River beach at the [Yasui family's] Mosier farm, and Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] & Min[oru Yasui], and the 2 Kanemasu brothers, Kazuo and Wataru, are playing around in the water in their underwear."

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Narrator Minoru "Min" Tsubota

Nisei male. Born December 1, 1918, in Kent, Washington. Became interested in music in junior high school, and played in various music groups. Upon graduating from high school, worked for a manufacturing plant, and then volunteered for the army. Separated from unit along with other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and eventually served …

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img Wedding guests (ddr-densho-359-477)

Groom Min Okano poses with his family. Left to right, standing: Phil and Alice Okano, Ayako Masuko with son Rick, David Shikuma, Min Okano, Bob Okano. Left to right, seated: Haruno and Toshiyuki Okano, Niki and Kenji Shikuma

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img Nikkei family in a park (ddr-densho-259-406)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Part of the Yasui family sitting in what appears to be a park [Left to right]: Shidzuyo, holding a baby, probably me; Ches, Min[oru], & Masuo, holding a young child, most probably Shu."

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img Men and children with hiking sticks (ddr-densho-259-41)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Toyoji Abe, Daiichi Takeoka, [Masuo Yasui], Kay, Ches and Min holding hiking sticks and posing on a very rocky field, Mt. Hood in the background it looks like the area around the old Cloud Cap Inn."

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img Five Nisei siblings (ddr-densho-259-468)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay, Ches [Tsuyoshi], Min[oru], Yuki and Michi [Yasui] at the Third Street home. There aren't many pictures of Yuki, since she died in 1922, just two months short of her fourth birthday. I think that she died of pneumonia, or maybe it was influenza."

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img Nisei soldiers studying a map (ddr-densho-114-42)

Original caption: Studying a map of [illegible] new bivouac area at a roadside are l/r: 2nd Lt. Edward E. [illegible], Mountain Lakes, N.J., 2nd Lt. Robert H. Foote, Hebron, Conn., S/Sgt. Min Shumida, Los Angeles, Calif., and Sgt. Minoru A. Ikehara of Honolulu, T.H. 10/13/44. 2nd Bn., 442nd Combat Team, Chambois Sector. France.

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img Nisei children rabbit hunting (ddr-densho-259-204)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay, Ches [Tsuyoshi], Min[oru], Michi and Roku [Yasui] have gone rabbit hunting. It shows Kay cradling a rifle in his left arm and holding a dead rabbit in his right hand. Ches has his .22 caliber rifle held high aloft in his right hand, and a dead rabbit in his left."

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img Issei man and children at train station (ddr-densho-259-195)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Min[oru], Michi, Roku, Shu, Homer & Yuka standing with Chan [Renichi Fujimoto] at the Hood River train depot. This was probably taken in the winter of 1929, when Chan went back to Japan to bring Obasan [Matsuyo Fujimoto] home to Hood River."

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img Family group photograph (ddr-densho-359-1531)

Okano family: back row: Min Okano, Ayako Masuko, Alice Okano; middle row: Toshiyuki and Haruno Okano, Niki Okano; bottom row: Phil Okano with Rick Masuko, Bob Okano

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img Four Nisei brothers with bozu haircuts (ddr-densho-259-83)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "It looks like Kay, Ches and Min [Yasui]--and Roku in front, sitting on the ground--just had had bozu haircuts. A 'bozu' is the familiar term for Bonsan, a Japanese Buddhist priest, who...always had a shaven or closely cropped head. For many years, Dad [Masuo Yasui] used to cut his boys' hair. He …

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doc Letter from Tadashi Ishida to Mr. & Mrs. Y Ishida (ddr-densho-535-269)

Went with Min Tsudama to their company to look for mail; most of the 442nd men are going home; wants to take a trip to Switzerland and buy a watch but needs to borrow money; bought a pistol with eight packs of cigarettes. Parents' note on envelope back: 271 Saturday Oct. 20, 1945 $20.00

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doc Philip Masaru Okano Affidavit (ddr-densho-359-1258)

The affidavit states that both Philip and Alice Okano are American citizens. He also affirms that all three employees of his laundry and cleaning business are also American citizens. Two of the employees were Phil's siblings, Min and Niki Okano. One was not a relative, Tsutomu "Jimmy" Mirikitani, whose story was told in the "Cats of …

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av Interview with Nobuo Yamashita, part 2 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1777)

Yamashita discusses serving with Minoru (Min) Hara, his family's business ventures (farming and produce), being deployed to the 6th Infantry Division in New Guinea, how he kept himself busy while serving, the story of a boy who was shot in a friendly fire incident, his issues with his officers, not getting furlough, and the death of …

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img Nakayama and Ozeki families aboard ship (ddr-ajah-6-753)

Caption below photo: Given her age and outfit, this is Hatsuyo's 1912 trip from Alameda to Japan at age 5. She will remain in Hiroshima until she is 17 years and 2 month old. Hanae and her brother, Min, also went to Japan on this same voyage. All three children went there be educated in Japan. …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 65, No. 14 [11] (September 15, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-38)

Selected article titles: "Rep. Matsunaga fights plan for civil service racial survey" (p. 1); Seattle Bon Odori attendance tempered by neighborhood unrest" (p. 1), "Min Yasui appointed director of community relations group" (p. 1), "Japanese Americans hold superficial show of education in higher esteem" (p. 1), "Seattle Japanese leader plays major role in Alaska, sees many …

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img "Nikkei farm family scene" (ddr-densho-259-358)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "A Nikkei farm family scene, taken at one of the early Yasui farms in Summit, which is slightly north and a little west of Odell, Oregon. The farm 'family' was mostly the young Masuo and Shidzuyo Yasuis Sitting back left is, I believe, Yoshizaemon Mori...I think that standing in the center is …

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img "Nikkei farm family scene" (ddr-densho-259-133)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "A Nikkei farm family scene, taken at one of the early Yasui farms in Summit, which is slightly north and a little west of Odell, Oregon. The farm 'family' was mostly the young Masuo and Shidzuyo Yasuis Sitting back left is, I believe, Yoshizaemon Mori...I think that standing in the center is …

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