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vh Rose Tanaka Interview Segment 11 (ddr-manz-1-145-11)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, support from a family friend, a retired military officer

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vh Mary T. Yoshida Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1014-9-5)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor while working as a housegirl for a white woman

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vh Jun Kurumada Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1013-5-12)

Role as president of the Salt Lake City JACL chapter following the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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vh Chiyoko Yano Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1013-9-6)

Burning Japanese books after the bombing of Pearl Harbor: "There was a worry of being targeted"

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vh Miyoko Kaneta Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-449-5)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, being confronted by a white woman about ethnic identity

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. II No. 25 (June 19, 1943) (ddr-densho-97-133)

Selected article titles: "Manpower Issue Causes Concern. Hundreds Leaving Center" (p. 1), "Nazi Agents Aided in Pearl Harbor Attack; Says OWI" (p. 1), "'Synthetic Dragon Need Not Frighten Nation'" (p. 1), "Helpless U.S. Minority Wronged, Says Writer" (p. 2), "Editorial: What We Say, and What We Do" (p. 4).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 29 No. 9 (August 27, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-34)

Selected article titles: "Refute Temperance Leader's Lie by Inference' on Alleged Pearl Harbor Drunkenness" (p. 1), "'Tokyo Rose' Defense Witness Contradicts Own Story; Alleges Intimidation by FBI Agents" (p. 1), "Nisei Quaker Faces Jail for Tax Refusal" (p. 1), "Court Criticizes Gen. DeWitt In Decision on Renunciants" (p. 1).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2027 (January 26, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-3)

Selected article titles: "I. Magnin, Joseph Magnin Urging Kenzo Label Change" (p. 1), "Yankee Samurai: Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory" (pp. 1, 9-12), "Japan's Pearl Harbor Spy Saw Evacuation as 'Cruel Joke'" (p. 2), and "Min Yasui Letters: From the Multnomah Jail" (p. 5).

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img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-114-97)

Japanese Americans in Army Train to Avenge Pearl Harbor: 100th Infantry Battalion Officers and some of the enlisted men are of Japanese ancestry. American citizens, born in the Hawaiian Islands of unquestioned loyalty and patriotism. Formerly part of the Hawaiian National Guard: Cpl. [illegible], orderly for the general. 1943.

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vh Walter Tanaka Interview (ddr-densho-1004-6)

Nisei male. Born February 19, 1918, in Watsonville, California. Drafted into the military before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Volunteered for the Military Intelligence Service and interrogated Japanese POWs in Australia during the war. After the war, served as a linguist and interpreter in Japan during the U.S. occupation.

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vh Tatsukichi Moritani Interview (ddr-densho-1001-2)

Nisei male. Born October 24, 1916, in Bainbridge Island, Washington. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was removed to Manzanar concentration camp, California. Left camp to work in Chicago before eventually returning to Bainbridge Island. Worked for the Washington State Ferries for forty years until retirement in 2005.

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img Tomoe Tomine sitting on beach (ddr-ajah-6-942)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Tomine addressed this photo to the man who would soon become her husband, Susumu in 1941. Given her clothing, likely in the summer, not long before Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Imperial Japanese. Inscription on photo: My Darling Susumu, [?]M to love, Tomo 1941

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vh Frank Isamu Kikuchi Interview (ddr-manz-1-5)

Nisei male. Born 1925, and during childhood lived in various places in the Midwest, Seattle, Washington, and Los Angeles, California. Was a high school student when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California, and after camp returned to Los Angeles.

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vh Bo T. Sakaguchi Interview (ddr-manz-1-8)

Nisei male. Born 1925 and raised in North Hollywood, California. Removed to Manzanar concentration camp, California, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Attended high school in camp, then left in 1945 to attend college. Drafted into the army, then lived and worked in various locations after World War II.

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vh Sharon Tanagi Aburano Interview I Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-208-23)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor while in a movie theater: "we were actually panic-stricken"

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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

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vh Frank Miyamoto Interview III Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-52-5)

Community reactions to the bombing of Pearl Harbor: false rumors of espionage, Japanese American Citizens League flagwaving

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vh Tom Matsuoka Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-47-22)

Being picked up by the FBI and detained by the INS after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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vh Art Shibayama Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-151-8)

Grandparents deported to Peru after the bombing of Pearl Harbor; rest of family taken away by ship

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vh Frank Isamu Kikuchi Interview Segment 2 (ddr-manz-1-5-2)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor: "Things aren't going to be the same around here anymore"

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vh Jiro Sugidono Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1015-2-12)

Division of town following the bombing of Pearl Harbor: "aliens" could not live on the west side

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-170-28)

Memories of the bombing of Pearl Harbor; trying to prepare for mass removal: "I still have nightmares"

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vh Larry "Shorty" Kazumura Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-199-8)

Making the decision to join the army after two friends were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack

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vh Joe Yamakido Interview (ddr-densho-1000-167)

Nisei male. Born March 3, 1922, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in various cities in California, and was living in Harbor City, California, when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941. Removed to Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and then to Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Later moved to the Jerome concentration camp in …

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doc Letter from Issei man to his family (ddr-densho-25-67)

After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the FBI under the Department of Justice began arresting aliens of Japanese, German, and Italian ancestry. These aliens, although they had not been charged with specific crimes, were considered "dangerous" by the U.S. government, and were interned in special Justice Department camps.

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