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doc Sentinel supplement, series 161 (January 11, 1944) (ddr-csujad-55-1598)

News bulletin published at Heart Mountain incarceration camp covering administrative announcements, events, vital statistics, and other necessary information concerning daily life in the camp. Current issue includes information on a Fair Employment Practice Committee, accounting classes, and wake services. Includes text in Japanese. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …

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doc Sentinel supplement, series 206 (June 15, 1944) (ddr-csujad-55-1619)

News bulletin published at Heart Mountain incarceration camp covering administrative announcements, events, vital statistics, and other necessary information concerning daily life in the camp. Current issue includes information on insurance benefits, children's safety, a draft resistance trial, census, and general information. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1621

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Fall 2014 (ddr-sjacl-1-599)

Selected article titles: "Minidoka Pilgrimage 2014" (p. 2-3), "Nikkei Arts News" (p. 3), "Walk for Rice" (p. 3-4), "JACL Teacher Training Workshop at BAM" (p. 4), "The Art of Enduring the Seemingly Unbearable with Patience and Dignity" (p. 4-5), "Youth Impression of JACL National Convention" (p. 6), "Seattle Pride Parade" (p. 8), "Seattle JACL Strives to …

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doc Letter from Rayko (Grace) Sumida to Chimata Sumida (ddr-densho-379-33)

Letter shares news that Emmy Sumida Ito and her husband Ken will be leaving for the Amache Relocation Center the next day, and the rest of the immediate family would be leaving for Arkansas on the 6th of October. She requests that he wire them when he finds out an actual date of transfer because they …

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doc Form letter sent to Setsuke and Takeo Sama from Tomoye Takahashi with news of Henri Takahashi's passing (ddr-densho-422-669)

Includes description of memorial service and hand-written note in Japanese

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Collection Japanese American Courier Collection (ddr-densho-96)

This collection consists of selected articles from the Japanese American Courier, which was the first English-language weekly published exclusively for the Nisei community. It was published and edited by James Sakamoto, one of the founding members of the Japanese American Citizens League. The Courier's first issue was published on January 1, 1928, and its last issue …

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img Soldiers reading a newspaper on V-J Day (ddr-densho-22-75)

Caption in album: "Yes as we were here in Donauworth patrolling and cleaning up we were cleaning up what war had made. Not too unexpected had come the news that V-J Victory-Japan had come shortly after the hard fought V-E Victory-Europe day had come. We felt an excitement quite unexplainable but we worked as usuable [sic] …

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img 522nd Field Artillery Battalion sign in Donauworth (ddr-densho-22-74)

Caption in album: "Yes as we were here in Donauworth patrolling and cleaning up we were cleaning up what war had made. Not too unexpected had come the news that V-J Victory-Japan had come shortly after the hard fought V-E Victory-Europe day had come. We felt an excitement quite unexplainable but we worked as usuable [sic] …

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img 552nd Field Artillery Battalion Charlie Btry sign (ddr-densho-22-76)

Caption in album: "Yes as we were here in Donauworth patrolling and cleaning up we were cleaning up what war had made. Not too unexpected had come the news that V-J Victory-Japan had come shortly after the hard fought V-E Victory-Europe day had come. We felt an excitement quite unexplainable but we worked as usuable [sic] …

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. II No. 24 (June 12, 1943) (ddr-densho-97-132)

Selected article titles: "Myer Condemns Dies Committee. Stop Misleading Charges, WRA Chief Declares in Letter to Congressman" (p. 1), "'Produce or Face Food Shortage'" (p. 1), "Editorial: A Challenge to the Dies Committee" (p. 1), "Two Youths Tried for Illegal Leave" (p. 1), "Resettlement Still WRA's First Objective" (p. 1), "Great Wrong is Being Undone Says …

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doc Letter from Charlie and Flora Pyatt to George Kida (ddr-one-3-41)

Envelope addressed to George Kida in Nyssa, Oregon. Letter from Charlie and Flora Pyatt, addressed to George, Kay, and Kida (meaning Kenjiro) dated March 28, 1943. Mentions that they hope that Sarah "Sade" Pyatt lives long enough for the Kidas to come back so that she can go back home. Says that it would have been …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 8 (August 21, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-34)

Selected article titles: "Administration bias against Japan protested by JACL" (p. 1), "Ike to proclaim Hawaii as 50th state today" (p. 1), "D.C. chapter organizes special anti-discrimination committee" (p. 1), "Traditional Japanese dances add color to Detroit-Windsor friendship festival" (p. 4), "24 laws dealing with race, religious discrimination passed by 14 states this year--best performance in …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 123 (October 15, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-209)

Selected article titles: "Focus Attention on Chicago Now"; "Mizumoto Arrested on Charge of Burglary"; "Burma Jungle Fighter Back Here on Denver Visit"; "Four Pledged to Sorority"; "They'll Have a 'Tough Time'"; "False Alarm! But They Had Celebration Anyway"; "Intentions to Wed Filed"; "Zoning Regulations May Hit Salinas Nisei Hostel"; "Commend Ex-Governor's Fight for Nisei Evacuees"; "History …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 31 (March 12, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-120)

Selected article titles: "Citation Awarded"; "Business Men of Parker Extend Hands to Poston"; "See Masterpiece"; "Citizen's League Regional Representative Masaoka to Open Los Angeles Office"; "Relocation Movement Record Shows Return to West Coast is Slow"; "Name Niseis Serving in Pacific"; "Nisei Girl Working for CIO Council"; "Draft Nurses"; "Want Ads Today"; "Tri-State Office to Move to …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 116 (September 28, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-202)

Selected article titles: "Resettlement in Colorado Told"; "Soldier Asks for Plan to Assure Equality"; "Anti-Returnee Terror Raid Experienced in Auburn"; "Rince Worried About Whereabouts of His Son"; "Tons of Evacuee Goods Shipped Out Each Mo."; "Nun Workers, Manchuria"; "Seabrook News"; "Chronicle Says Nothing Trivial About Rowdies"; "WRA Forsees Chaos if Congress Decides to Cut 5 Millions …

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doc Colorado Times Vol. 31, No. 4350 (August 16, 1945) (ddr-densho-150-62)

Selected article titles: "Grandson of Tokyo Lawyer in Texas Ready to Take on Japan. Major Robert Saibara of Webster, Texas, Has 3 Battle Stars"; "Racial Problem May Come Up in Calif. As Initiative Measure"; "Anti-Japanese Unit Formed in California"; "An Editorial That Ranks Well in the Big Parade for Right Thinking!"; "'And Little Children Shall Lead …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 78 (June 29, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-167)

Selected article titles: "Returnee News"; "On the Other Hand"; "First in New Jersey"; "Art Show Draws Crowd"; "Turn Down Rice Shipment for Center Residents"; "Job Contacts Established by 442nd Infantry for Returning Soldiers"; "'We Demand It!'"; "Fourth of July Fete to be Held"; "Some Refugees Go Home"; "3 Personalities"; "Iwasaki Dissatisfied with Jurist's Action"; "Bilbo Filibuster"; …

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doc Colorado Times Vol. 31, No. 4319 (June 5, 1945) (ddr-densho-150-33)

Selected article titles: "North Weld News Roundup"; "Nisei Promoted in Field to 2nd Lieutenant"; "Ickes Condemns Judge in Nisei Case"; "Judge Stands Pat on Decision"; "CIO Condemns Jury in Placer Raid Trial"; "National WLB Praises Nisei"; "Ranchers to Hire Evacuees in Fresno Area"; "Luptonians to Hold Skating Party"; "ILWU Officials Score Action of Stockton Local"; "Greeley …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 30 (ddr-densho-156-342)

Original summary excerpt: From Western sources came the major news items reviewed this week. Director Dillon S. Myer, after leaving the Denver conference of WRA officials, visited Granada Relocation Center at Amache on July 28, and addressed a large gathering of evacueees and personnel. On arriving in Los Angeles, he conferred with WRA officials in charge …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 6 (ddr-densho-156-318)

Original summary: Military service and Middle West employment program continued as chief news sources. Hawaiian Japanese have responded enthusiastically to Army enlistment program; no newspapers have published reports on resopnse in the continental United States. Considerable local resentment to resettlement in Middle West has apparently developed. Act to prohibit land ownership by Japanese in Arkansas was …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 44 (ddr-densho-156-357)

Original summary excerpts: News clippings on Tule Lake showed a decided reduction from the comparatively high peak of the preceding two weeks. New developments were limited largely to the demands of various civil and congressional leaders for permanent Army control of Tule Lake and possibly all relocation centers. Army statements that "no signs of resistance or …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 32 (ddr-densho-156-344)

Original summary excerpt: Most important news events of the week were the release of the report by the Costello subcommittee on August 24 and the minority report released by Rep. Eberharter on the following day. The majority report found WRA procedure of releasing evacuees "loose and dangerous", while Rep. Eberharter claimed his fellow members of the …

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img Malcom Epley (ddr-csujad-29-217)

Photograph title: "The Tule Lake War Relocation Center, was located on the northern California border, 35 miles south of Klamath Falls, Oregon. Standing on the left is Malcom Epley, then managing editor of the Klamath Falls Herald and News. The man on Epley's right is unidentified." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American …

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img Katharine Hepburn (ddr-njpa-1-617)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Rengo Overseas Photographic News November 18. Hello, Mister Hepburn. (Hollywood) Rengo. With Marlene Dietrich's male dress being surprisingly popular, other stars have been joining in in swarms, dashingly swaggering through Hollywood in chic male dress. And it seems that Katherine Hepburn has also decided that this way is more convenient and has …

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img Prince Louis Ferdinand and Kira Kirillovna on their honeymoon (ddr-njpa-1-335)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Domei Photographic Domestic News No. 1-4. Prince Ferdinand and Wife Go to Hakone. (Tokyo) August 20, 1938. Enjoying honeymoon sightseeing and shopping in Tokyo since entering the capital on the 5th, Prince Ferdinand, the grandson of the former German Kaiser, and his wife left the German embassy where they are staying at …

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