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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-164-31)

Joining father's organization, the Kenkyu Seinen Dan: shaving head, forming a bugle corps, and marching in drills

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-31/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-164-9)

Memories of the bombing of Pearl Harbor: after attending church, helping father burn possessions related to Japan

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-9/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-164-23)

Father decides to volunteer to go to Japan, wife and children insist on accompanying him

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-23/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 37 (ddr-densho-1000-164-37)

Witnessing the frenzy of people applying to renounce their U.S. citizenship

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-37/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-164-22)

Father vocally protests conditions in camp, and is questioned by FBI regarding allegations made against him

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-22/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-164-13)

Preparing for mass removal: "It was panic and chaos"

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-164-8)

Growing up in a neighborhood with kids of other ethnicities: "you're conscious that you're Japanese and you're different"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-8/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 56 (ddr-densho-1000-164-56)

Reflections on life experiences

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-56/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-164-14)

The day of mass removal, receiving aid from a Jewish man

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-14/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 48 (ddr-densho-1000-164-48)

Mother and siblings eventually return to live in United States, father chooses to remain in Japan for rest of his life

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-48/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 32 (ddr-densho-1000-164-32)

Hearing about the murder of a suspected informant in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-32/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-164-28)

Father forms a small group to propose to the camp administration the idea of "resegregating" Tule Lake, separating the pro-Japanese factions from everyone else

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-28/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-164-30)

Formation of the Sokoku Kenkyu Seinen Dan, the Young Men's Association for the Study of the Motherland

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 29 (ddr-densho-1000-164-29)

Father circulates a petition to support his resegregation idea after the camp administration rejects it; obtains 6,500 signatures

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-29/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-164-5)

Father's work with a farmer's association

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-164-38)

Mother communicates via coded letters to try to discover father's whereabouts after his removal from Tule Lake

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-38/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-164-3)

After immigrating to the United States, father attends school to learn English, then graduates from college in three years

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-164-25)

Talking with father on journey to Tule Lake concentration camp, the so-called "segregation camp"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-25/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 45 (ddr-densho-1000-164-45)

Working for the Saga Prefecture military government, encouraged by boss to return to the United States

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-45/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-164-18)

Arrival at Topaz concentration camp: "desolate, dry, dusty"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-18/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-164-21)

The confusing questions 27 and 28 on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-21/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-164-24)

Feeling shocked upon hearing of family's decision to go to Japan; labeled a "disloyal" by peers

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-24/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-164-1)

Family background: mother an older Nisei, born in California

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vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-164-36)

Personal feelings after father's arrest: angry, but "kind of proud"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-36/

vh Tom Akashi Interview Segment 33 (ddr-densho-1000-164-33)

A shift in the objectives and leadership of the pro-Japan organizations after announcement that people would be allowed to renounce their U.S. citizenship

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-164-33/

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