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vh Aiko Herzig Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1002-8-11)

Memories of caring for a child in camp: washing diapers in an ill-equipped communal laundry room

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this …

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vh Aiko Herzig Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1002-8-15)

Discussion of the so-called "loyalty questionnaire": confusion over the nature of the questions

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically …

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vh Ernest Besig Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1002-3-4)

Traveling to Tule Lake concentration camp

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on …

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vh Ernest Besig Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1002-3-12)

Thoughts on Wayne Collins

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding …

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vh Ernest Besig Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1002-3-7)

Description of Norman Thomas

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding …

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vh Jim Hirabayashi Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1002-5-11)

Description of brother Gordon Hirabayashi's wartime stand and trial

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead …

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vh Ernest Besig Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1002-3-3)

The ACLU's position on the incarceration, and thoughts on the Japanese American Citizen's League

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are …

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vh Frank Emi Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1002-9-15)

Description of trial: found guilty and sent to jail

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-9-15/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 53 (ddr-densho-1000-164-53)

Description of Fort Stanton internment camp

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 50 (ddr-densho-1000-164-50)

Writing a book about personal experiences and life of father as "a gift to my children and my grandchildren"

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1000-164-35)

Father arrested by the FBI and removed from Tule Lake along with sixty-nine others

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-164-11)

Father's arrest by the FBI: targeted because of childhood friendship with Japanese admiral

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-164-16)

Observing the generational shift in camp: Nisei take over the primary roles, while Issei are supporting

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-164-34)

Observing changes in the pro-Japan organizations during the institution of the renunciation program

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-164-10)

Destroying Japanese possessions: "We don't want anything that would incriminate us as being Japanese"

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 44 (ddr-densho-1000-164-44)

Life in Japan, postwar: working for a land reclamation project, then finding a job with a Japanese construction company as an interpreter

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-164-12)

Returning to school after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, getting in fights with other students over racist name-calling

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 43 (ddr-densho-1000-164-43)

Initial experiences in Japan: freezing cold, living on army surplus rations

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 51 (ddr-densho-1000-164-51)

Many years later, piecing together father's wartime experiences in a Department of Justice internment camp

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 55 (ddr-densho-1000-164-55)

Thoughts on current events and the aftermath of September 11, 2001: "history is repeating itself"

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 52 (ddr-densho-1000-164-52)

Recounting father's experiences at the Fort Stanton internment camp

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-164-17)

Discussion with father on journey to Topaz concentration camp, father indicates desire to leave camp as soon as possible

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-164-6)

Childhood memories of Mount Eden, California: kenjinkai picnics, father is community's Japanese school teacher

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-164-4)

Parents met and married in California

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 46 (ddr-densho-1000-164-46)

Reflecting on father's immigration experience upon own return to U.S.

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