Mrs. Ikuo Oyama, Mr. Ikuo Oyama

Mr. & Mrs. Ikuo Oyama

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Ikuo Oyama and wife departed from Tokyo Station by train on the 17th at 12:30 p.m. because they could not receive [?] to Manchuria, going to America instead. Guards were very strict during this time, and when he got out from their taxi nobody was allowed near him because security guards, policemen …

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. At the Jerome Relocation Center, where some 8,000 west coast residents of Japanese ancestry now reside, Mr. K. Oyama, former California cosmetics manufacturer, set up a soap factory in a corner of a school block laundry, rendering the waste meat fats from the center kitchens. This factory has …

"New Men Urged to Sign Up for Alaska Cannery Work; 700 to 800 Still Needed" (pg. 1), "500 Attend Rites for Mrs. Oyama, Victim of Vanport, Oreg. Flood" (pg. 2), "Art of Making Box Lunches to be Taught in Portland" (pg. 4)

Photocopy of a declassified report on Keizaburo Koyama. Confidential Informant N1 provided another translated article from the North American Times dated February 14, 1941 which stated that Koyama was appointed to the Industrial Department of the Japanese Association of Oregon, which was reorganized as a new Japanese Chamber of Commerce. On March 5, 1941, Koyama was …

Duplicate of 2016.23.11.