Caption on reverse: "Seattle School Dist. school clerks. Front row: L-R: Alice Kawanishi, Mako Nakagawa, past Seattle JACL President, Cherry Kinoshita, Wash. Coalition on Redress Co-Chair. Back row: L-R: Ai (Takizawa) Koshi, T.J. Vassar, Seattle School Bd, May (Daty) Namba, Toyo (Okuda) Cary."
Original caption: Nisei Japanese supply clerks, work in the supply room from which supplies are issued to the Allied translator and interpreter section, General Headquarters, Allied Powers in the Pacific, Tokyo, Japan. L-R: Pfc. Hideo Ikeuchi, Tec 5 Tom Maruyama, and Pfc. Francis Nakagawa. 9-3-46.
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This float was featured in Ogden's Days of '47 Parade. In fishing gear: Chuichi Kawaguchi. Standing (L to R): Mr. Shimada, Dr. Yoshitaka, Mr. Clarence Uno, Mr. S. Yamaguchi, kneeling, Mr. Nakagawa. Children (L to R): Yuki Uno, Shuzo, Ray Uno, Tad Kawaguchi, Shinji Ichida, Tosh Sase, Shig Yokoyama, Shozo Sakurada, Wallace Uno.
Newsletter covering the following topics: Teacher?s Workshop featuring Mako Nakagawa, Tom Ikeda, Alan Yabui, Karen Yoshitomi, Pramila Jayapal, and a panel of Dr. Frank Kitamoto, Fumiko Hayashida, May Namba, Devon Abdullah, and Amelia Derr; 2005 Installation, January 22, 2005, Seattle Waterfront, $60, Keynote-Peggy Nagae; Board to carol at Nikkei Manor.
Japanese female. Born November 29, 1930, in Shizuoka, Japan. Attended school during World War II. After the war, entered the nursing profession and became involved in a number of social and political causes. In the 1960s, married a Kibei Nisei and moved to the United States.
Kibei male. Born December 25, 1930 in Sacramento, California. Grew up in Sacramento where parents ran a hotel. In 1941, traveled to Japan with father to Japan, then could not return to the United States because of impending war. Was living in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the atomic bomb in 1945. Returned to the …
Kibei-Nisei male. Born January 20, 1916, in Alameda, California. At the age of five, family returned to live in Japan. Attended school in Japan before returning to the U.S. in 1937. Drafted into the U.S. Army, and was in training when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Resisted military orders while in basic training, …
Nisei male. Born December 22, 1917, in Torrance, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area where parents ran a farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, family decided to "voluntarily evacuate" to Colorado in order to avoid mass removal. Farmed in Colorado during the war years, and returned to Los Angeles in 1945.
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Working in the Alaskan canneries during high school
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Description of a few other Japanese American families in town
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Family background: parents have oldest daughter in Japan
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Moving to Seattle where father started a tofu business
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