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doc Topaz Times Vol. X No. 2 (January 6, 1945) (ddr-densho-142-369)

Selected article titles: "Most Topazans Do Not Plan Coast Return Now" (p. 1), "Coast Restriction Queries Answered by Barnhart" (p. 1), "Nisei Scared Stiff But Proud" (p. 2).

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doc Topaz Times Vol. VIII No. 4 (July 15, 1944) (ddr-densho-142-324)

Selected article titles: "Carpenter: Evacuees Welcomed to East Coast" (p. 1), "Strict Enforcement of Traffic Rules to Start" (p. 1), "Woman Condemns Unfair Attitude Toward Nisei" (p. 6).

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doc Denson Tribune Vol. II No. 32 (April 21, 1944) (ddr-densho-144-162)

Selected article titles: "1,898 Nisei of Draft Age are Called" (p. 1), "Draft Applies to Tule Lake" (p. 1), "This Can Happen Only in the USA" (p. 2).

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doc Rohwer Outpost Vol. VI No. 46 (June 2, 1945) (ddr-densho-143-274)

Selected article titles: "Changes Made in Resettlement Aid" (p. 1), "Essential Workers Will be Excused from Cleanup Work" (p. 1), "New York Nisei Girls Receive Praise" (p. 1).

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doc Topaz Times Vol. VIII No. 19 (September 6, 1944) (ddr-densho-142-337)

Selected article titles: "Agriculture Rates High in WRA Program, Hoffman" (p. 1), "Engle Introduces Deportation Bill" (p. 1), "Milwaukee Journal Editorial Raps Navy's Anti-Nisei Rule" (p. 2).

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doc Poston Chronicle Vol. XX No. 12 (August 29, 1944) (ddr-densho-145-550)

Selected article titles: "Can Name Aliens Beneficiaries" (p. 1), "Army Flies Penicillin Here" (p. 1), "Nisei Soldiers Influence Seen" (p. 2), "Contributions Made to JACL Deductible" (p. 2).

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img Issei woman with her redress check (ddr-densho-26-41)

This ceremony at the Nisei Veterans Hall honored five Issei, all at least 100 years old, and presented them with their redress checks. Shown here is Mrs. Wakamatsu.

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img Issei man waiting to receive his redress check (ddr-densho-26-35)

This ceremony at the Nisei Veterans Hall honored five Issei, all at least 100 years old, and presented them with their redress checks. Shown here is Mr. Nakagawa.

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doc Correspondence and clippings regarding donation of an article (ddr-densho-338-136)

Correspondence between the National Japanese American Historical Society and Guyo Tajiri regarding her donation of a 1947 Pacific Citizen article titled: "A French Town Remembers Its Nisei Liberators."

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doc Scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-392)

Newspaper articles titled: "Racial Test Arrives in California," "MacNaughton Will Speak on Japanese," and "'On Being Nisei...'" Newspapers include the Christian Science Monitor, Minidoka Irrigator, and Oregon Journal.

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doc Granada Pioneer Vol. III No. 52 (May 3, 1945) (ddr-densho-147-262)

Selected article titles: "Two More Returnee Families Fired Upon" (p. 1), "Oregon CIO Council Backs Evacuee Return" (p. 3), "Raps Nisei as One of Subversive Forces" (p. 5).

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doc Copy of clipping with photo from The Japanese American News titled "Alameda's Frolicking Fujin" (ddr-ajah-3-350)

Caption below clipping: Young Nisei Women prepare for the Obon Festival and dance at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA. Photo courtesy the Nichibei Shinbun July 23, 1936

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img Group of girls in matching costumes standing on steps (ddr-ajah-3-212)

Caption below photo: Young Nisei girls pose in front of the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA. Circa early 1920s. One girl identified: Kazuye Hattori b. Sept 23, 1912

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doc Draft letter from Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-27)

Arrangements for young people of First Baptist Church of Cicero to entertain Nisei US soldiers on July 18, 1942. Request for list of interested soldiers to send invitations.

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doc Scene the Pictorial Magazine Vol. 4 No. 9 (January 1953) (ddr-densho-266-50)

Selected article titles: "A Nisei? Well, yes and no" (p. 13), "Behind the scene at a kimono show" (p. 19), "All Japan hails her next ruler" (p. 31).

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doc Certificate from State of Hawaii House of Representatives (ddr-densho-422-410)

Presented to Henri and Tomoye Takahashi in honor of the dedication of a mural and opening of the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Nisei Community Hall in San Francisco

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img Group portrait of men in uniform (ddr-ajah-2-811)

Caption: Nisei soldiers from Barracks 15, Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) Camp Savage, Minnesota, April 24, 1943. Supplemental scan of ddr-ajah-2-743 with additional notes

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img Nap on the Beach (ddr-one-1-619)

Black and white photographic negative of three Nisei girls napping on the beach in a pile. On the top left is Grace Mieko (Muramatsu) Ouchida, other two unidentified.

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av Interview with Sen Nishiyama, part 5 of 5 (ddr-densho-1007-1675)

Nishiyama discusses the Sansei and the Nisei. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 192, II JA #9, Sen Nishiyama, Fri. Jan. 31

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. III No. 97 (November 7, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-93)

Selected article titles: "Nisei Offered Opportunity to Enlist" (p. 1), "Army School Lowers Qualifications for Prospective Applicants" (p. 1), "Sunday Music Hour" (p. 1), "Church Services" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-65-93/

Collection Yanagihara Collection (ddr-densho-26)

The Yanagihara collection contains materials from the pre-War, War, and post-War years. The pre-War photographs show life for the Yanagihara family. The Wartime photographs show life at Minidoka concentration camp in Hunt Idaho. The post-War photographs include events such as the redress movement and the memorial to Japanese American soldiers at the Nisei Veterans Hall in …

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Collection Kenji Harada Collection (ddr-densho-184)

The Kenji Harada Collection consists of letters written by Kenji Harada, a Nisei incarcerated in the Poston concentration camp, Arizona, during World War II. The letters are written to his friend Dave Stickler and his mother Miriam Stickler in Carmichael, California near Sacramento where he resided before the war. Kenji Harada contracted pneumonia while in Poston, …

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Collection Nippon Kan Heritage Association Collection (ddr-densho-353)

The Nippon Kan Heritage Association (NKHA) was a nonprofit organization founded in Seattle, Washington in the 1980s, after the Nippon Kan theater was restored. NKHA was not directly associated with the theater but did produce content that was put on there. This collection documents an exhibit put on by the NKHA: "The Way It Was: Northwest …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 44, No. 14 (April 5, 1957) (ddr-pc-29-14)

Select article titles:"Video Stations Agree With JACL Suggestions" (p. 1); "Nisei Victimized by Bandit Curious For Robbery by Daylight" (p. 1); "Street names for Japanese American to stay, despite objections" (p. 1); "Anti-trust suit to prevent block-booking of films for TV welcomed by JACL; may lift excuse to show anti-Nisei films" (p. 1); "Actor Haswgawa arrives …

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doc Pacific Citizen Vol. 22 No. 9 (ddr-densho-121-15)

Selected article titles: "300 Nisei Stranded in Japan by War, Petition for Right to Return to Homes in U.S." (p. 1), "Canadian Supreme Court Rules Orders for Deportation Valid" (p. 1), "Delegates Support Extension of JACL Work in Peacetime" (p. 1), "See Few Marriages Between U.S. Troops, Girls in Japan" (p. 1), "San Francisco Cases to …

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