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doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-236)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he talks about the press a Marine office gave about Nisei soldiers learning Japanese in Minnesota and using it in the Pacific theater, the announcement of the formation of 442nd/100th Battalion, a recent proposal to relocate Japanese Americans into Midwestern states in defense and agricultural jobs, …

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. II No. 13 (March 27, 1943) (ddr-densho-97-121)

Selected article titles: "Nisei Farm Work Training Program Starts; Residents Move to Organize Labor Body. Seek Better Relations for Workers" (p. 1), "Residents Find Many Offers, Leave Center" (p. 1), "Dissolution of WCCA Told" (p. 1), "Meal Hours Changed to Boost Work Efficiently" (p. 1), "Plan Release of Kodaks, Radios" (p. 1), "Hiking Permit Procedure for …

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img WRA resettlement image (ddr-densho-7-4)

Original WRA caption: The lagoon in Juneau Park on the lake's edge is a favorite for Milwaukee strollers and also with the Nisei who have resettled in Milwaukee. This picture shows an extremely mild winter day. The ducks on the lagoon are wild Mallards which often spend the winter at the Milwaukee lagoon and lake front …

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img Sueko Asuka (ddr-njpa-5-17)

Caption on reverse: "MISS ASKUA DANCES: Miss Sueko Asuka, noted dance teacher who took advanced lessons from Film Star-Dancer Kazuo Hasegawa for six months in Japan last year, gave a dance recital at International Theater last night. The show was an invitational affair and packed to capacity. Miss Asuka's pupils did numerous dances and she herself …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 21 (October 22, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-20)

Selected article titles: "WRA Director Believes Large Group May Be Resettled Soon" (p. 1), "War Department Official Says No Major Changes Considered In Present Relocation Program" (p. 1), "Deportation of U.S. Japanese Made Issue" (p. 1), "No Truth in Hawaiian Sabotage Rumors, Declares Bill Moran" (p. 1), "JACL Officials Investigate Montana Beet Work Conditions" (p. 2), …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 15 (April 15, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-15)

Selected article titles: "Three Nisei Soldiers Win Army Decorations" (p. 1), "Gen. DeWitt Opposes Return of Evacuees. 'Jap's a Jap,' Declared Army Commander; Repudiates Citizen Rights of Japanese Americans" (p. 1), "Topaz Resident Killed by Shot Fired by M.P." (p. 1), "Japanese Americans Carried Out Special Assignment" (p. 1), "FBI Director Says Japanese in Hawaii Not …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 33 No. 6 (August 18, 1951) (ddr-pc-23-33)

Selected article titles: "Prospects Dim for Early Action on Bill to Grant Issei Naturalization Rights" (p. 1), "President Truman Signs Evacuee Claims Amendment" (p. 1), "Invite JACL ADC Official To Attend Japanese Treaty Conference in San Francisco" (p. 1), "Justice Department Says: Undocumented Hearsay Data Will Not Be Accepted in Processing Evacuee Claims" (p. 2), "First …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 31 No. 20 (November 18, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-46)

Selected article titles: "Twelve Japanese Americans To Serve in Isle Legislature; Okino Election Called Surprise" (p. 1), "Plan to Speed Action on Claims of Aged Issei" (p. 1), "Kawakita Appeals Treason Conviction Before U.S. Court. Convicted of Charge of Brutal Treatment of War Prisoners" (p. 1), "Sen. McCarran Will Expedite Citizenship Bill, Says Masaoka" (p. 1), …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 24 (December 11, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-50)

Selected article titles: "Nisei attorney wins civil rights case for three Negroes" (p. 1), "Wakamatsu hits race bias in talk before placer county JACL fete" (p. 1), "10-year dream comes true for Japanese Community center in San Fernando Valley" (p. 1), "U.S. and Japan need each other to survive, Rep. Inouye declares" (p. 3), "Kimono-clad girls …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 65, No. 24 (December 15, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-51)

Selected article titles: "Is It Anti-Japanese Bias? Verbal Feud of Appointment of Noguchi as Coroner Hot" (p. 1), "New yardstick suggested for medics to spot 'suicide prone'" (p. 1), "Vietnam Issue Added in Speech Given by Rep. Matsunaga Warms Up CCDC Meet" (p. 1), "Burton bill asks statute of limitations on deportations" (p. 1), "Proper perspective …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 70, No. 1 (January 2-9, 1970) (ddr-pc-42-1)

Selected article titles: "Senate unanimously pass Inouye Title 2 repeal bill" (p. 1); "Japanese diplomat fired for aiding Jewish refugees honored by Israel" (p. 1), "Youth rededicate Manzanar camp cemetery" (p. 1), "Sen. Inouye hopes shock, protest will trigger self-examination" (p. 2), "Three Nisei among 1,400 Americans missing in Vietnam" (p. 2), "Calif. law schools seek …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 70, No. 13 (April 3, 1970) (ddr-pc-42-13)

Selected article titles: "Friends to establish Masaoka trust fund" (p. 1), "Earl Warren speaks out on Title II" (p. 1), "History of the Japanese in Utah placed in archives of state society" (p. 1), "Reno Nisei candidate in recall petition of three councilmen" (p. 1), "School integration resolution offered" (p. 1), "Court rules on literacy test …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 73, No. 4 (July 23, 1971) (ddr-pc-43-29)

Selected article titles: "Farm labor crisis hits JACL" (p. 1), "Watsonville Elks against white-only rule" (p. 1), "Fear low cost housing may kill Japan Center and Nihonmachi" (p. 1), "San Francisco JACL prepared to object to opening of Kenzo's boutique in area" (p. 1), "Japan will not rely on nuclear power" (p. 2), "In Sacramento, this …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 73, No. 16 (October 15, 1971) (ddr-pc-43-41)

Selected article titles: "'Illegal alien' issue swirls over Colorado as Nisei farmer accused" (p. 1), "10-story, 162-unit Kawabe House for Seattle Issei nearly ready" (p. 1), "Chicago JACL granted $55,000 to train ex-mental patients at own workshop" (p. 1), "Peking visit by Nixon viewed as bold move by Sato" (p. 1), "Friends of Far Eastern Art …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 42, No. 19 (May 11, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-19)

Selected article titles: "Sen. Kuchel meets Bay Area JACLers, community leaders" (p. 1), "Population Study of Midwest Japanese Due" (p. 1), "Three Television Networks in All-Out Effort to Avoid Offending Minorities in Songs, Some Banned, Changed" (p. 1), "Eisenhower Has Bill OK'd by Congress Permitting Use of Mongolian Labor" (p. 1), "Magnuson urges claims bill passage" …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 43, No. 14 (October 5, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-40)

Selected article titles: "Note Sansei in Hawaii Politics, 2 Seek Offices" (p. 1), "Sansei scores 190 pts. out of possible 110 in Oregon State entrance examination" (p. 1), "New Justice Dep't Procedures for Renunciants Follows JACL Policy" (p. 1), "Effective campaign to carry 'Yes on Prop. 13' urged in Nisei vernacular" (p. 1), "Detroit JACLers open …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 61, No. 26 (December 24-31, 1965) (ddr-pc-37-52)

Selected article titles: "For Equality In and Under the Law" (p.A1, A3), "Immigration: Abolish Quota System over Five-Year Period" (p.A5-A6), "Japanese Resent Stigma of 1924 Exclusion Act" (p.A8, A10), "Dr. Steve Abe: Psychologist Compares Nisei-Sansei Teenage Relationship" (p.B3-B5, B23), "The Enemy at Guadlcanal" (p.B6, B10, B18), "The Road through the Pasture"(p.B20). The holiday issue included advertisements …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 53, No. 25 (December 22, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-51)

Special holiday issue organized into sections A 1-24, B 1-16, and C 1-4. Selected article titles: "'Evacuation' JACL Statement and Command Decision" (pp. A-1, A-3-A-7), "Nisei Actors Come of Age" (p. A-8), "Chronology of War Relocation Authority Activities" (pp. A-22-A-23), and "JACL vs. Lechner" (pp. B-15-B-16). The holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 83, No. 26 (December 24-31, 1976) (ddr-pc-48-51)

Special holiday issue. Selected article titles: "PC Headlines in 1986" (p. 3), "The Trend Is Toward Assimilation" (p. 4), "Five Critical Political-Social Issues for Nisei and Their Future Well-Being in U.S. Assessed" (pp. 5, 68), "Evacuation Remembered, but Use of Nihongo Fading Away" (pp. 85-87), and "Tule Lake's Steel Cross Rededicated by 1976 Pilgrim" (pp. 101, …

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img The staff of the Minidoka Irrigator (ddr-densho-10-3)

The staff of the Minidoka Irrigator, the weekly newspaper of the Minidoka concentration camp, outside the paper's office. The Minidoka Irrigator, a weekly paper, ran from September 10, 1942, through July 28, 1945, and contained news about the camp and of the war when Nisei began enlisting. Japanese Americans with a background in journalism worked on …

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doc Recreational organization (ddr-csujad-26-10)

Report detailing the establishment of a recreation and community activities department including its organization, activities planning, personnel problems and conflicts, issues with structure and equipment, and a structural diagram of the community activities section. The report focuses on the place of recreation in the lives of incarcerees and the differences between Issei and Nisei leading to …

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doc Niseis problems today (ddr-csujad-48-32)

Assignment by Mitsuko Mitsui for class taught by Mr. Harry Bentley Wells, a teacher at Manzanar High School. Mitsuko starts by stating the questions relating to the future, and that the answers are nothing but rumors that don't help to solve any of the problems. The Nisei are said to be a people without a country, …

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img Art Club (ddr-csujad-44-35)

A photograph of Nisei students incarcerated at Tule Lake, California. They are presumably the member of Art Club. The large group is posing for the photo in three rows in front of a barrack. The back two rows are young men and women standing behind a row of young women seated in a row of chairs. …

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doc Manzanar Free Press Vol. II No. 57 (November 30, 1942) (ddr-densho-125-15)

Selected article titles: "For a Very Merry Christmas" (p. 1), "Attempted Arson Foiled as Store Blaze Quenched" (p. 1), "Block 12 Boasts Largest Nisei Group" (p. 1), "Chief of Police Gilkey Donates Blood to Sick" (p. 1), "Distinguished Visitors Tour Manzanar Area" (p. 1), "Co-op Educational Committee to Meet" (p. 1), "Shoyu Name Contest" (p. 1), …

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doc Manzanar Free Press Vol. II No. 58 (December 3, 1942) (ddr-densho-125-16)

Selected article titles: "Fire Practice Unsatisfactory Says Kubota" (p. 1), "Cotton Formals on Their Way" (p. 1), "Hay Arrives for Distribution" (p. 1), "Need Central Fire Dept." (p. 1), "Relocation Fever Rises" (p. 1), "Farmers Face End of Harvest" (p. 1), "Operation of Enterprise Will Continue as Usual. Compromise Made After Arson Incident; Moving Plan Studied" …

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