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Aya Fujii - Taka Mizote Interview Segment 16 (ddr-manz-1-101-16)
Moving to a farm labor camp with slightly better conditions


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Aya Fujii - Taka Mizote Interview Segment 6 (ddr-manz-1-101-6)
Attending Japanese language school

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Aya Fujii - Taka Mizote Interview Segment 8 (ddr-manz-1-101-8)
Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor


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Aya Fujii - Taka Mizote Interview Segment 14 (ddr-manz-1-101-14)
Avoiding camp by working as farm laborers

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Aya Fujii - Taka Mizote Interview Segment 15 (ddr-manz-1-101-15)
Creating a community at farm labor camp

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Aya Fujii - Taka Mizote Interview Segment 12 (ddr-manz-1-101-12)
Two brothers drafted into the military

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Aya Fujii - Taka Mizote Interview Segment 13 (ddr-manz-1-101-13)
Living and working for a farmer during the war

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Aya Fujii - Taka Mizote Interview Segment 11 (ddr-manz-1-101-11)
First impressions of the Portland Assembly Center

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Aya Fujii - Taka Mizote Interview Segment 20 (ddr-manz-1-101-20)
Looking back on wartime experiences

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Aya Fujii - Taka Mizote Interview Segment 9 (ddr-manz-1-101-9)
Emotions upon finding out about mass removal

Narrator Kara Kondo
Nisei female. Born 1916 in the Yakima valley, Washington, and spent childhood in Wapato, Washington. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the North Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and then to the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Was on the staff of the camp newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel. Left camp for Chicago, Illinois, and …

Narrator Tad Sato
Nisei male. Born May 9, 1922, in Portland, Oregon. Moved to Seattle with father after parents divorced. Grew up in Seattle's Nihonmachi where father ran a secondhand store. Disinterested in college after seeing a lack of employment opportunities for graduating Japanese Americans. Went to work for Great Northern Railway, laying and maintaining tracks on the West …

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Case file for Keizaburo Koyama from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Page 4 of 6. (ddr-one-5-101)
Photocopy of a declassified report on Keizaburo Koyama. The page starts with a review of the 1928 census which states that Koyama entered the United States in December of 1918 and that he has a wife, a son named Katsumi, and two daughters named Eva and Kes. Myron Johnston, a neighbor of Koyama, tracked Koyama's family …

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Keiko Shinmoto Interview (ddr-densho-1021-3)
Keiko Shinmoto's father migrated from Hiroshima to Portland, Oregon, where his brother was an owner of a grocery store. After returning to Hiroshima to see his ailing father, Keiko's father found it impossible to return to America as his mother hid his passport to keep him in Japan. Shortly, Keiko's mother joined him in Hiroshima, also …

Narrator Keiko Shinmoto
Keiko Shinmoto's father migrated from Hiroshima to Portland, Oregon, where his brother was an owner of a grocery store. After returning to Hiroshima to see his ailing father, Keiko's father found it impossible to return to America as his mother hid his passport to keep him in Japan. Shortly, Keiko's mother joined him in Hiroshima, also …

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Bill Hosokawa Interview (ddr-densho-1000-129)
Nisei male. Born in Seattle on January 30, 1915, and attended Washington grade school, Garfield High School and the University of Washington. He grew up as a typical Nisei, working summers in Alaska salmon canneries and Western Avenue produce brokerages to pay for his education. He became interested in writing at Garfield where he was sports …

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Bill Hosokawa Interview (ddr-densho-122-26)
Nisei male. Born in Seattle on January 30, 1915, and attended Washington grade school, Garfield High School and the University of Washington. He grew up as a typical Nisei, working summers in Alaska salmon canneries and Western Avenue produce brokerages to pay for his education. He became interested in writing at Garfield where he was sports …

Narrator Bill Hosokawa
Nisei male. Born in Seattle on January 30, 1915, and attended Washington grade school, Garfield High School and the University of Washington. He grew up as a typical Nisei, working summers in Alaska salmon canneries and Western Avenue produce brokerages to pay for his education. He became interested in writing at Garfield where he was sports …