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Connie Thorson Chandler Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-159-1)
Family background: parents met in North Dakota
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Helen Harano Christ Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1013-6-22)
Getting married, trying to find a teaching job in North Dakota
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Arthur Ogami Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-154-25)
Transferred with brother to Bismarck, North Dakota, a Department of Justice camp
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Arthur Ogami Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-154-24)
Given very little notice of impending transfer to Bismarck, North Dakota, a Department of Justice camp
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Postcards (ddr-csujad-25-52)
A page from an album containing Japanese family photographs. Includes three postcards. Captions read: "Central Avenue, Minot, N. D."; "Villa_d Ave. Looking East New Rockford, N.D."; "New Year greetings, 1922 Gasho." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: jia_07_01_052
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 6 No. 17 (August 5, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-267)
Selected article titles: "Richardson To Visit Here" (p. 1), "Job Offer in North Dakota" (p. 1), "Opportunity For Girls to Attend College Made" (p. 1), "Yen Certificates Must Be Reported; Regulation" (p. 1), "Editorial: Don't Spread Rumors" (p. 1), "Hearings Start at Granada" (p. 1), "Segregation Procedure Given" (p. 3).
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Take Murayama Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-110-4)
Living in North Dakota, no other Japanese families (Japanese language)
This interview was conducted in Japanese. It was translated so as to convey Mrs. Murayama's way of speaking as closely as possible. For example, there are instances in which she makes grammatical errors. These mistakes are conveyed through similar grammatical errors in English in order to …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 58, Vol. 8 (February 21, 1964) (ddr-pc-36-8)
Selected article titles: "Growers Council to Recruit Domestic Hands for Bracero" (p.1); "Federal Aid in Housing Periled by Initiative" (p.1), "Tacoma Voters Reject Housing Ordinance" (p.1), "Cortez JACL Planning Community Center" (p.1), "Civil Rights Act" (p.2), "City Hall Approves Li'l Tokio Rebuilding" (p.3), "Once a North Dakota Homesteader, Kitagawa Now a Spry 88" (p.4).
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WRA digest of current job offers for period of Jan. 11 to Feb. 1, 1944, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota (ddr-csujad-55-819)
Report on job vacancies for "resettlers" in Minneapolis, Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. Includes summary of jobs and housing and a list of job titles and pay for males and females. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0821
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WRA digest of current job offers for period of March 16 to March 31, 1944, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota (ddr-csujad-55-994)
Report on job vacancies for "resettlers" in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota. Includes summary of jobs and housing and a list of job titles and pay for males and females. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0996
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WRA digest of current job offers for period of Dec. 10 to Dec. 25, 1943, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota (ddr-csujad-55-804)
Report on job vacancies for "resettlers" in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota. Includes summary of jobs and housing and a list of job titles and pay for males and females. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0806
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WRA digest of current job offers for period of March 1 to March 15, 1944, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota (ddr-csujad-55-984)
Report on job vacancies for "resettlers" in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota. Includes summary of jobs and housing and a list of job titles and pay for males and females. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0986
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WRA digest of current job offers for period of April 16 to April 30, 1944, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota (ddr-csujad-55-844)
Report on job vacancies and opportunities for "resettlers" in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota. Includes summary of jobs, housing, and a list of job titles and pay for males and females. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0846
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WRA digest of current job offers for period of April 1 to April 15, 1944, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota (ddr-csujad-55-837)
Report on job vacancies and opportunities for "resettlers" in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota. Includes summary of jobs, housing, and a list of job titles and pay for males and females. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0839
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Couple standing on steps of barracks (ddr-ajah-6-53)
Caption below photo: Hyakutaro Towata and his wife, Yoshi, visit the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in 1945. In December of 1941, the FBI removed Hyakutaro from his home in Alameda. For months his family had no idea that he had been taken to a special prison camp in Bismarck, North Dakota. After eight months, Hyakutaro was …
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Relocation Prospects - Colorado, New Mexico, Eastern Wyoming and Montana, Western Nebraska, Kansas, and North and South Dakota (ddr-densho-156-155)
Written by Harold S. Choate, Relocation Supervisor, Denver.
Narrator Charles Oihe Hamasaki
Nisei male. Born October 7, 1922, in Japan, while parents were visiting family. Came to the U.S. at three months old, and grew up in Terminal Island, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, picked up along with Issei father and taken to Fort Lincoln (Bismarck), North Dakota. Transferred from Fort Lincoln to the Santa Anita …
Narrator Grace F. Oshita
Nisei female. Born January 2, 1925, in San Francisco, California. Spent childhood in San Francisco where family operated successful miso factory and grocery store. Father arrested by FBI in February 1942 and sent to Fort Lincoln internment camp, North Dakota. Family removed to Tanforan Assembly Center and Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Graduated from Topaz High School …
Narrator Take Murayama
Issei female. Born 1895 in Nagano, Japan. Married Mr. Kazuyoshi Murayama, an Issei who returned to Japan temporarily for an arranged marriage. Immigrated to the U.S. in August of 1916. Worked for a wealthy family in North Dakota, then settled in Seattle. Went back to Japan in 1924, but returned to Seattle in 1925. Owned a …
Narrator Arthur Ogami
Nisei male. Born April 10, 1922, in Whittier, California. Spent childhood in California, before being removed to Manzanar concentration camp in 1942. Left Manzanar several times to work as a beet topper for local farmers. Decided to expatriate to Japan because of mother's wishes, and was transferred to Tule Lake concentration camp. In 1945, was moved …
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An Oral History with Mitsuhiko H. Shimizu (ddr-csujad-29-57)
Issei community leader and businessman in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo recounts his arrest by Federal Bureau of Investigation after Pearl Harbor, his experiences in internment camps in North Dakota and Louisiana, and the Manzanar incarceration camp, California. This oral history was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project, Oral History Program, CSU Fullerton. Transcript is …
Narrator Hitoshi "Hank" Naito
Nisei male. Born April 20, 1926, in San Diego, California. Grew up in Terminal Island, California, where father was a fisherman. During World War II, removed with family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Family was transferred to Tule Lake in response to father's answers on the so-called …
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Grace F. Oshita Interview (ddr-densho-1013-4)
Nisei female. Born January 2, 1925, in San Francisco, California. Spent childhood in San Francisco where family operated successful miso factory and grocery store. Father arrested by FBI in February 1942 and sent to Fort Lincoln internment camp, North Dakota. Family removed to Tanforan Assembly Center and Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Graduated from Topaz High School …
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An Oral History with Mitsuhiko H. Shimizu - Segment 1 (ddr-csujad-29-57-1)
Issei community leader and businessman in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo recounts his arrest by Federal Bureau of Investigation after Pearl Harbor, his experiences in internment camps in North Dakota and Louisiana, and the Manzanar incarceration camp, California. This oral history was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project, Oral History Program, CSU Fullerton. Translated into …
Narrator Ronald Ikejiri
Sansei male. Born December 3, 1948, in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, parents had been incarcerated at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Father signed 'no-no' on the so-called 'loyalty questionnaire', renounced U.S. citizenship, and was sent to the Department of Justice camp at Bismarck, North Dakota. Family did not end up expatriating to …
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