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img Nisei Bowling League Women's Team (ddr-one-1-128)

Original black and white photographic print of a Nisei women's bowling team. The team is posed in front of a Ford sedan with a bowling ball and monogrammed shirts. Back row left to right: Kathleen Sasaki, Yoko (Hishikawa) Iwata, and Takako Inukai. Front row left to right: Toshi (Tamiyasu) Fukuhara, and Sachi (Nakata) Nakashima. Negative ONLC …

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img Nisei Bowling League Women's Team (ddr-one-1-127)

Black and white photographic negative of a Nisei women's bowling team. The team is posed in front of a Ford sedan with a bowling ball and monogrammed shirts. Back row left to right: Kathleen Sasaki, Yoko (Hishikawa) Iwata, and Takako Inukai. Front row left to right: Toshi (Tamiyasu) Fukuhara, and Sachi (Nakata) Nakashima. Original print ONLC …

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doc Pacific Citizen Nisei Soldier clipping (ddr-densho-1007-1012)

Describes an upcoming screening of Nisei Soldier.

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doc Column noting Nisei Soldier screening (ddr-densho-1007-1494)

From a Hawaii paper, exact publisher unknown.

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doc Pacific Citizen Nisei Soldier clipping (ddr-densho-1007-1013)

Lists awards won by Nisei Soldier.

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doc 14 Nisei and the Marauders (ddr-densho-1007-981)

Recounts the stories of the Nisei who worked with Merrill's Marauders in Myanmar (Burma). Copy, originally published in the Pacific Citizen.

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doc Nisei Soldier 3rd draft outline (ddr-densho-1007-1516)

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doc Miscellaneous notes for Nisei Soldier (ddr-densho-1007-1512)

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doc Nisei Soldier "MASSA" edit logs (ddr-densho-1007-1405)

Unclear who the annotators were; page 4 looks like Loni Ding's handwriting, page 6 doesn't.

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doc "RUDY" Nisei Soldier edit logs (ddr-densho-1007-1388)

Edit logs for a Nisei Soldier segment featuring Rudy Tokiwa and Kent

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img Two Nisei in the snow (ddr-densho-159-53)

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doc Drawing by a Nisei man (ddr-densho-166-15)

This drawing was done by Nisei Art Mayeno in Minidoka. He later submitted it to Burnley School of Art in Seattle as an admissions requirement.

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doc Painting by a Nisei man (ddr-densho-166-16)

This painting, titled "Playing Go in the furnace room in Minidoka," was done by Nisei Art Mayeno in camp. He later submitted it to Burnley School of Art in Seattle as an admissions requirement.

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img Nisei soldiers entertaining the wounded (ddr-densho-37-307)

Original caption: Private First Class George Inouye, an American of Japanese descent who was wounded in Italy, listening to a Japanese American band that entertained wounded U.S. soldiers at Halloran General Hospital in New York City. The entertainers, who had been defense workers and students before volunteering for the U.S. Army in Hawaii a year earlier, …

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img Nisei soldiers escorting captured Germans (ddr-densho-37-21)

Original caption: "German storm troopers surrender to rifleman of the 100th Infantry Battalion (Americans of Japanese ancestry), after a short but rather sharp exchange of fire. Fifth Army, Orciano area, Italy, July 15, 1944."

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doc Rohwer Outpost Vol. V No. 25 (September 20, 1944) (ddr-densho-143-203)

Selected article titles: "Nisei Suffer 139 Casualties" (p. 1), "Soda Stand Open" (p. 1), "U.S.E.S. Jobs for Chicago Nisei" (p. 2), "Calif. JC Takes Nisei Student" (p. 3).

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doc Letter from Stephen L. Weber to Bilin Tsai (ddr-densho-446-365)

Follow-up letter on Nisei Honorary Degree

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vh Rudy Tokiwa Interview II Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-92-9)

The army's use of Nisei interpreters early in the war

This interview was conducted at the 1998 Americans of Japanese Ancestry Veterans National Convention, held in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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vh Mitsue Matsui Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1008-3-17)

Sharing memories of Major Aiso, "A great Nisei leader"

Members of the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) arranged for and conducted this interview in conjunction with Densho.

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vh George S. Matsui Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1008-2-13)

Getting in a fight with a fellow Nisei soldier

Members of the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) arranged for and conducted this interview in conjunction with Densho.

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doc Gila News-Courier Vol. IV No. 58 (July 21, 1945) (ddr-densho-141-417)

Selected article titles: "Welfare Needs Interpreters" (p. 1), "The Nisei Comrade" (p. 1), "Bob Hope: Entertains Nisei GI's" (p. 1), "Woman Gets Jail Term for Threatening Nisei" (p. 3).

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vh Masao Watanabe Segment 44 (ddr-densho-1000-103-44)

Forming the Nisei Veterans Committee in recognition of unique wartime experiences

At the time this interview was taped, Mr. Watanabe was recovering from a recent series of cancer treatments.

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doc Gila News-Courier Vol. III No. 159 (August 26, 1944) (ddr-densho-141-315)

Selected article titles: "Two Nisei: Exempted from Exclusion" (p. 1), "Four Gilans to Head Arabia Farm Mission" (p. 1), "Nisei Newsreels Gets Applause" (p. 1), "Churchill: Lauds Nisei, Negroes" (p. 2).

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Collection Mitsui Collection (ddr-densho-14)

The Mitsui collection, 1998, documents the Nisei veterans reunion in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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doc Colorado Times Vol. 31, No. 4295 (April 10, 1945) (ddr-densho-150-8)

Selected article titles: "WRA Agents Berated at Mass Meet in Shelton, Nebraska. Shelton Residents Oppose Japanese Colony"; "Nisei on Iwo Jima"; "Nisei Girl Helps Yanks on Okinawa"; "Flood of Japanese to West Coast Feared"; "The Christian Century: Canada Threatens Its Nisei Citizens"; "Cornelians to Meet Thursday, April 12"; "Nisei Spearhead Drive on Italian Front"; "WRA Will …

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