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vh Frank Miyamoto Interview IV Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-145-36)

Memories of long hours, tedious work in the canneries

This interview focuses on the narrator's experiences working in the Alaska salmon cannery system in the 1930s.

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vh Frank Miyamoto Interview IV Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-145-21)

Beginnings of unionization process at the Waterfall cannery

This interview focuses on the narrator's experiences working in the Alaska salmon cannery system in the 1930s.

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vh Frank Miyamoto Interview IV Segment 29 (ddr-densho-1000-145-29)

Positive memories of cannery life: lasting relationships with Nisei peers

This interview focuses on the narrator's experiences working in the Alaska salmon cannery system in the 1930s.

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vh Frank Miyamoto Interview IV Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-145-16)

Organization of the Waterfall Cannery; discussion of the roles of various ethnic groups

This interview focuses on the narrator's experiences working in the Alaska salmon cannery system in the 1930s.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-145-16/

vh Frank Miyamoto Interview IV Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-145-13)

Personal recollections of first trip to the Waterfall Cannery: slow trip aboard a freighter

This interview focuses on the narrator's experiences working in the Alaska salmon cannery system in the 1930s.

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vh Frank Miyamoto Interview IV Segment 37 (ddr-densho-1000-145-37)

Discussion of close community ties between Nisei

This interview focuses on the narrator's experiences working in the Alaska salmon cannery system in the 1930s.

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vh Frank Miyamoto Interview IV Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-145-15)

This interview focuses on the narrator's experiences working in the Alaska salmon cannery system in the 1930s.

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vh Frank Miyamoto Interview IV Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-145-6)

Overview of the general operation of an Alaskan cannery; description of four different types of salmon

This interview focuses on the narrator's experiences working in the Alaska salmon cannery system in the 1930s.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-145-6/

doc Photograph and article regarding Kosho Otani (ddr-njpa-4-1918)

Article title [translation]: "Higashi Honganji Abbot Otani. Party held to see off Otani. Several hundred people, including supervisors of other sects."

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img Kosho Otani and Hawaiian Buddhist leaders (ddr-njpa-4-1919)

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doc Immigrants and Citizens of Japanese Origin (ddr-csujad-19-49)

This article by Shotaro Frank Miyamoto explains in detail about the concentration of the Japanese Americans on the West Coast, the history of anti-Japanese activities in this region and the racial antagonism expressed by American people against the Japanese in their midst. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: WRA_02-07_03

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img Cosmetology Club (ddr-manz-6-61)

Original caption: "Back row: 1. Hideko Ohashi, 2. Mari Kakoi; 3. Amy Miyamoto, 4. Sadaye Akemoto, 5. Kazuko Nagai, 6. Hideko Minabe, 7. Tomi Isago, 8. Katie Inouye, 9. Diane Tani, 10. Masako Kurokawa; Middle row: 11. Lillian Uyemura, 12. Mary Hirabara, 13. Duchess Takeuchi, 14. Miss Dorothy Yamamoto, 15. Rikoko Nakamura, 16. Masako Matsuo, 17. …

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img U.S. soldiers in Korea (ddr-csujad-38-527)

A photograph of U.S. soldiers in Korea, including George Nobuo Naohara. The caption reads: Sgt. Otsuka, Capt. Takahashi, Sgt. Miyamoto, Naohara, Sgt. Tamura, 1st Sgt. Asakura. The same image is found in item: csudh_nao_0660. Item from: George Naohara scrapbook: Korean War and before leaving Japan (csudh_nao_0600). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American …

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img Education Committee, Amache Co-op (ddr-csujad-55-1539)

Black and white photographic portrait of the Education Committee of Amache Consumer Enterprises at the Amache incarceration camp. Includes, from left to right, T. Konno, G. Mitani, T. Miyamoto, and T. Terami. From Amache Co-op Souvenir Album, page 6. See also sac_jaac_1530 through sac_jaac_1589. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project …

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img U.S. soldiers in Korea (ddr-csujad-38-526)

A photograph of U.S. soldiers in Korea, including George Nobuo Naohara. The caption reads: Sgt. Miyamoto, Sgt. Otsuka, Capt. Takahashi and Geo Naohara, Sgt. Yamashita, 1st Sgt. Asakura, Korean Capt. The same image is found in item: csudh_nao_0659. Item from: George Naohara scrapbook: Korean War and before leaving Japan (csudh_nao_0600). See this object in the California …

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doc Order battle map, Korean War front line (ddr-csujad-38-500)

A page from: George Naohara scrapbook: Korean War and before leaving Japan (csudh_nao_0600). Includes George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten notes on the Korean War and a newspaper clipping with an image capturing the wounded soldiers. George Nobuo Naohara was one of the wounded soldiers and taken to a field hospital by Capt. Takahashi and Sgt. Miyamoto. See …

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doc Six Leading Japanese Golf Pros Arrive Today. Team Finally to Compete in Open. (April 21, 1935) (ddr-densho-56-451)

The Seattle Daily Times, April 21, 1935, p. 19

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doc Washington's Japanese Best Adjusted in Camps (March 1, 1943) (ddr-densho-56-884)

The Seattle Daily Times, March 1, 1943, p. 5

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. III No. 70 (October 7, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-68)

Selected article titles: "Students to Aid Crop Harvest: 400 High School Students Start Work This Morning" (p. 1), "Miyamoto Takeda Leave for Work Inspection Tour" (p. 1), "Colony Boasts Only Hog Farm" (p. 1), "Colonists Urged to Help in Farm Work" (p. 1), "From Washington D.C.: Staff Artists Recognized" (p. 2), "Parents' Help Asked to Curb …

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img Nakamoto family's funeral (ddr-csujad-25-259)

A page from the Taenaka family photo album. Pasted on the page is a photograph of attendees of the funeral of "Nakamoto." Attendees include Tamesaburo, Kamie Taenaka, and Caucasian attendees. Funeral flowers are offered by the American National Insurance Co., F.D. Beane, Yomekichi Furuya or Furutani, Koshiro Miyamoto, Umekichi Fukui, Kikuchi, Chokichi Okamoto, Tamesaburo Taenaka, Ishitani …

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doc Family register certification for Tsugitada Kanamori, in Japanese (ddr-csujad-12-20)

The certified copy of Tsugitada Kanamori's family registration in Japan, issued by Ryoitsu Kikuchi, the Mayor of Miyagi Shida-gun Kashimadai. The document lists his permanent domicile, his parents' names, date and place of birth (September 7, 1922, the city of Port Hueneme in Oxnard), his marriage to Kazuko Miyamoto. Also it includes Kazuko's date and place …

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doc Summary of Survey (ddr-densho-356-988)

Results of a survey from June 1943 of internees. Details pre-war locations, occupations, years in US, ages of children, children in armed forces, relatives with illness, and application for reunification.

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img Kikunosuke Makino (ddr-njpa-4-1030)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Supreme Court President Makino's retirement Kikunosuke Makino, the Supreme Court President, reaches the retirement age of 65 years on the 20th of next month, so he has decided to retire. He was born on December 21, 1867 in a village in the Miyamoto area, and he graduated from Tokyo University Law School, …

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doc Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Wartime Evacuation Japanese Dark Period" (ddr-densho-483-134)

Article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer commemorating the 25th anniversary of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.

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doc Resettlement handbook (ddr-densho-493-34)

"Resettlement Handbook" with front cover illustration of a person considering locations on a large globe. Published by the Evacuee Information Office of the Granada Project. Resource and instruction book for leaving camp. Instructions for how to make transportation arrangements and apply for transportation funding, close out clothing allowance, employment and last paychecks, return of government property, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-493-34/

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