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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 31 (December 31, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-30)
Selected article titles: "Gen. DeWitt Rescinded Curfew Restrictions" (p. 1), "Army Proclamation Abolishes Prohibited Zones, A-2---A-1033. Regulations Affecting Nisei in Restricted Areas Outside of West Coast Withdrawn" (p. 1), "Nisei Soldier Participates In Bombing Raid on Nazi Europe As Gunner on American Plane" (p. 1), "New Mexican Town Opposes Nisei Entry" (p. 1), "Future of Nisei …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 34 No. 10 (March 8, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-10)
Selected article titles: "House Sets Floor Debate on Walter Omnibus Bill" (p. 1), "Hawaiian Statehood Opponents Reminded on Senate Floor of War Record of 442nd Unit" (p. 1), "Chicago Housing Group Tells Regrets Over Racist Remarks in Film About Late President" (p. 2), "Min Yasui Quits Post as JACL Regional Chief" (p. 3), "New York New …
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Manzanar Free Press Relocation Supplement Vol. I No. 2 (April 21, 1945) (ddr-densho-125-332)
Selected article titles: "Departures (April 11 to April 17)" (p. 1), "Booklet Tells Need of Retail Shops in Midwest" (p. 1), "Job Opportunities Open to Issei in East" (p. 1), "Apartment Hostel in New York Facilitates Family Resettlement" (p. 1), "Issei Future Believed in New Orleans Area" (p. 2), "Want Evacuee Families to Operate Farm for …
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-867)
Letter from New York. Kan is now working for landscape architect Shogo Myaida's business, "the Garden Clinic." Working on a project for Japan Day, and sold a bonsai project idea to the designer, Kudzumi. Discusses the confidence required to go out seeking jobs and selling project ideas, which he observes that he seems better at than …
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Roger Daniels Interview (ddr-densho-122-25)
White male. Born December 1, 1927, in New York City, New York. Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cincinnati. Served as a consultant to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians from 1981 to 1983. Has researched and written numerous books about the Japanese American experience, including Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese …
Narrator Ernest Besig
White male. Born May 30, 1904, in Albany, New York. Founder and Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California from 1934 to 1971. Fought for civil rights throughout his career, and was involved in the General Strike in San Francisco, the McCarthy Era, and the Free Speech, civil rights, and anti-war movements. …
Narrator May Ota Higa
Nisei female. Born March 14, 1916, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle and Ellensburg, Washington, before going to Japan to teach just prior to the onset of World War II. Returned to Seattle in 1941, and was removed with family to Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After the war, resettled in …
Narrator Grace Watanabe Kimura
Nisei female. Born May 2, 1925, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Boyle Heights, where father was a prominent Baptist minister, establishing his own church. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, removed with family to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Obtained student leave to finish high school in Abilene, Texas. Post-World …
Narrator Shiuko Sakai
Nisei female. Born 1923 in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle where parents operated a hotel. During World War II, removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Left camp to live and work in New York, then worked for several years in Japan for the U.S. occupation forces. Returned to …
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News clipping regarding the USS North Carolina (ddr-njpa-13-387)
Text on front: "New US Battleship North Carolina Is Commissioned. NEW YORK, Apr. 9 (INS)--The world's mightiest battleship, the USS North Carolina, was commissioned at the Brooklyn navy yard today in colorful ceremonies headed by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. This was the first commissioning of a battleship in 18 years. The 35,000-tonner was built …
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Rohwer Outpost Vol. III No. 13 (August 14, 1943) (ddr-densho-143-89)
Selected article titles: "Inspection of Vehicles at Motor Pool is Essential" (p. 1), "Notice! Repatriates' Families" (p. 1), "Resettlement in New York" (p. 3), "Exchange of Nationals to Take Place in India" (p. 3), "First Court Case Settled" (p. 3), "Blocks Sanitation to be Cared for by New Set-up" (p. 3), "Public Invited to View Red …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 109, No. 4 (August 18-25, 1989) (ddr-pc-61-29)
Selected article titles: "Regulations on Documentation for Redress Payment Smoother" (p. 1), "'Vincent Chin'-Type Case Explodes in Raleigh, N.C." (pp. 1, 8), "Tri-District Convention Speech: Nakagawa Calls for Nat'l 'Nikkei Summit' in 1990" (p. 3), and "522nd Field Artillery Scouts Liberated Dachau Death Prisoners: Why a New York Judge Mobilized Jews to 'Go for Broke' on …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 76, No. 23, (June 15, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-23)
Select article titles: "New York Nikkei Groups Form Housing Corp" (p.1); "WRA Records to Be Retained in Nat'l Archives" (p.1); "Evacuee Teacher Bill Passes First Step in Sac'to" (p.1); "Bannai Bandwagon Rolls" (p.2); "U.S. Civil Rights Commission to Hear Problems of Calif. Asian American" (p.3); "Nisei Farmers League Defending Right of Farm Workers and Protecting Farms" …
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Nisei clerk (ddr-densho-114-148)
Original caption: Miss Yukie Konai, Nisei clerk-typist, Special Service, GHQ, Army Forces in the Pacific, Tokyo, Japan, locates a rest area for a GI. She came to Tokyo from New York City in 1940 and was forced to remain until the conclusion of the war. When her citizenship was reinstated, she secured a position in the …
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Nisei captain giving medical aid (ddr-densho-114-91)
Original caption: Castrellina Sector, Italy. At an aid station in a wine cellar, Capt. J. Kimura of Berkeley, Calif., lances an infected finger for Pvt. Claude Lunn of Willsville, New York, Right, while Tec 5 George Kobayashi of Honolulu, T.H., holds a flashlight. All are of the 442nd Inf. Regt., 34th Division. U.S. Fifth Army. [The …
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Rohwer Relocator Vol. I No. 17 (September 1, 1945) (ddr-densho-143-297)
Selected article titles: "Record Number to Leave Sept. 7" (p. 1), "Holiday and Change in Work Hours" (p. 1), "Bring Pink Books to Relocation Office" (p. 1), "Warning -- Keep Bills of Lading" (p. 2), "Nisei Soldiers Lead Parade" (p. 4), "Fort Snelling Graduates in Occupation Forces" (p. 4), "Jobs Plentiful in Chicago" (p. 4), "Aliens …
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Poston Chronicle Vol. XXII No. 6 (January 17, 1945) (ddr-densho-145-604)
Selected article titles: "Discharged Poston Vet Accepted as Hollywood Legion Post Member" (p. 1), "Block 12 Mess Hall to Close. Will Combine with Block 5 February 1" (p. 1), "Ten Families Scheduled to Leave Next Monday for Crystal City, Texas" (p. 1), "Do You Know Someone Who Has Lost Baggage?" (p. 2), "Issei Urged to Resettle …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 56 (May 9, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-145)
Selected article titles: "Curb Commercial Issei Fishing"; "Mounting Casualty List Disclosed"; "Red Cross Seeking Kins"; "League Finance Drive Mark Told"; "Birth Reported"; "Denver Bowles Garner Major Share of Honors"; "Thomas Speaker for Conclave"; "Want Ads Today"; "Optometrist Opens Office"; "Nebraskans Aroused"; "California Senate Committee Opposed to Evacuees' Return Before V-J Day"; "Up-State New York"; "Ando at …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 149 (December 13, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-82)
Selected article titles: "Victory Rally Held in New York"; "Colorado Has 30,000 'Potential Soldiers'"; "On the Other Hand"; "Military Authorities Satisfied with WRA"; "Christmas Fare Has Been Planned"; "San Mateans Launching Educational Movement"; "Police Officer Fears His Staff Inadequate"; "Physician Dead"; "'It Smacks Too Much of Hitlerism'"; "Radio Program"; "Want Ads Today"; "Baldwin: Moral Position Involved"; …
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Daily Press Review, Vol. V, No. 17 (ddr-densho-156-257)
Article titles: "Jap-American is Sentenced"; "Jap Labor Being Recruited"; "Farmers Protest Grog Sales to Jap Evacuees"; "Trainload of Japs Passes Through to State's Beet Fields"; "New York Optical Company Building Factory at Center"; "Activities of Heart Mountain, Wyoming"; by Bill Hosokawa"; "Scott Taggart to Heart Mountain Job"; "Speaker Tells of Jap Camp Near Jerome"; "8,000 More …
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Mini-Reunion of AT Chapter with the 100th B Chapter (ddr-csujad-1-181)
A note of the Mini-reunion. "Mini-Reunion of AT Chapter with the 100th B Chapter, 4-Queens Hotel, Las Vegas, 10/9/95 thru 10/13/95. Photo's by Hiroshi Kaku, New York." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ike_02_08_107
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Sachi Kaneshiro Interview (ddr-manz-1-67)
Nisei female. Born January 1, 1920, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Covina, California. Worked for the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA). Volunteered to go early to Poston concentration camp, Arizona, to help set up the camp. Eventually transferred to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, before leaving for New York. Eventually pursued a career in …
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Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle (ddr-njpa-1-185)
Caption on reverse: "Smiling Jimmy. Brigadier General James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle, who led the U.S. bombers in the air raid on Tokio [sic], had this big smile for the camera at a dinner in New York City at which he was made a life member of the Army and Navy Legion of Valor. (Not for use …
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Chiyoko Chiyo Omachi Interview (ddr-chi-1-17)
Nisei female. Born July 12, 1926, in Terminal Island, California. Grew up on Terminal Island where father worked as a ship builder. During World War II, removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Left camp and lived in Pennsylvania with relatives before attending college in New York. Family resettled in Chicago, Illinois, after the war, where …
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May Ohmura Watanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1000-454)
Nisei female. Born May 13, 1922, in Chico, California. Grew up in Chico, where parents ran a produce store. Was in college when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and was removed with her family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend school in Syracuse, New York, and become a public health nurse. Later …