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Collection Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection (ddr-densho-1001)

This collection consists of interviews conducted by the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community (BIJAC). BIJAC's mission is to share with the wider community the history and culture of Japanese Americans, and to promote the safeguarding of civil and constitutional rights for all. Japanese Americans living on Bainbridge Island were the first of more than 120,000 forced …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 63 (June 2, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-230)

Selected article titles: "Carter Deputy County Clerk" (p. 1), "It's True! It Snows in June" (p. 1), "Use of Water Must Be Drastically Reduced" (p. 1), "Father Daisuke Kitagawa to Study Relocation" (p. 1), "Residents Moving to Other Centers Must Pay Own Way" (p. 1), "Time Limited to Sell Cars" (p. 2), "Personality is Class Topic" …

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doc Christmas card and letter from Opal Yarnell to Kida family (ddr-one-3-60)

Envelope addressed to Mr. and Mrs. K. Kida and son in Nyssa, Oregon. Christmas card from Opal Yarnell to the Kida family dated December 16, 1943. Says she is afraid that Mrs. Pyatt doesn't have long to live. Hopes the war will end. Talks about her son Bucky in the navy and the places he has …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 27 (December 3, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-26)

Selected article titles: "Eight Nisei Evacuees Enlisted in U.S. Army at Height of Disturbance at Poston Center" (p. 1), "107 Evacuees, First Contingent From Hawaii, Relocated at Jerome Center in Arkansas" (p. 1), "JACL Reiterates December 7 Denunciation of Military Japan" (p. 1), "Delay in Prosecuting Cases Against Nisei Civil Service Workers Told Assemblyman" (p. 2), …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 31 No. 17 (October 28, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-43)

Selected article titles: "442nd Combat Team Vets Will Be 'Honorary Texans" (p. 1), "Honolulu Warms to Report Two Japanese Americans Survive War Prisoners' Death March" (p. 1), "JACL Legislative Group Starts Study of 'Clean Bill' to Remove Race Bans from Naturalization" (p. 3), "Japanese Americans Promise Full Cooperation in Denver's Urban Redevelopment Program" (p. 3), "Destroying …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 71, No. 15 (October 9, 1970) (ddr-pc-42-40)

Selected article titles: "Oldest Nisei in U.S. to be cited by JACL in N.Y." (p. 1), "Minorities would be ignored under plan to elect President directly" (p. 1), "Apartment owner uses race ratio" (p. 1), "'Noguchi Case' in Phoenix" (p. 1), "Auto licensing office was on the road to 'bankruptcy' when Nisei reinstated" (p. 1), "Shell …

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doc Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin (ddr-csujad-24-90)

A letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin in which she mentions fundraising in an incarceration camp for the Girl Scouts. She also discusses trying to get Deborah Lim to go public with her report about the collaboration between the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) and the U. S. government during World War II. The unflattering …

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doc Year at Gila: anniversary booklet (ddr-csujad-42-179)

A booklet to commemorate the first anniversary of the Gila River incarceration camp after the first incarcerees' arrival from the Turlock Assembly Center on July 20. 1942. It gives an overview of the Gira River incarceration camp, describing the population, housing, community enterprises, administration, community government, crops, post office, education, Red Cross, religion, publication, hospital, public …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 11 (May 8, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-38)

Selected article titles: "Public Sentiment Ousts Nisei from Mid-West Jobs" (p. 1), "No Hasty Action is Contemplated to Ease Any Evacuation Orders" (p. 1), "Residents May Cancel Requests for Repatriation" (p. 1), "Limited Service Men Not Accepted Now, States Col. Merrill" (p. 1), "Worthy Nisei Should be Given Jobs Outside Centers -- Mrs. Roosevelt. 'And the …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 23 (December 2, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-156)

Selected article titles: "Knife-Wielder Threatens D.H. 16 Cooks" (p. 1), "New Leave Section Formed 30-Day Furloughs Abolished" (p. 1), "Sewerage Will be Completed by Mid-December" (p. 1), "3 More Couples Swell Newlywed Population Here" (p. 1), "Adult Classes Ready to Start. Schedule Based on Survey Returns" (p. 3), "Public Invited to General JACL Discussion at D.H. …

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doc Manzanar Free Press Vol. III No. 2 (January 6, 1943) (ddr-densho-125-92)

Selected article titles: "Benefits Sought for Workers" (p. 1), "Increase in Farm Acreage Mapped" (p. 1), "To Open Relocation Offices in Mid-West" (p. 1), "PTA Bazaar and Movie Hailed Successful" (p. 1), "New Police Personnel Released" (p. 1), "Warehouses for Evacuee Goods Announced" (p. 1), "Oil Shortage Fear Unnecessary" (p. 1), "No Racial Barriers" (p. 2), …

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doc Manzanar Free Press Vol. II No. 16 (August 26, 1942) (ddr-densho-125-52)

Selected article titles: "Volunteers Sought for Farm Work. Furlough Jobs in Other States Open to Agricultural Workers" (p. 1), "WRA to Give Relief for Needy. Public Assistance Grants to be Handled by Local Community Services Division" (p. 1), "Harvesting of Pears From Orchards Begins" (p. 1), "Tulelake Rumors Proved Untrue" (p. 1), "Two Confess to Warehouse …

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doc Poston Chronicle Vol. XII No. 30 (May 30, 1943) (ddr-densho-145-325)

Selected article titles: "Poston Artists Win Awards at Cambridge Art Exhibits of Ten Relocation Centers. Tsuruoka, Sugioka Acclaimed" (p. 1), "Hundreds Pay Tribute to War Dead on Memorial Day. Special Services Prayer for Peace Set at Churches" (p. 1), "Public Told to Assist Loyal Nisei. Father Lavery Wins Supports for Evacuees" (p. 1), "Milk Shortage Hits …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 64 (May 28, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-153)

Selected article titles: "Quiet Return of Many, Unnoticed"; "Youth Commissioned in Philippine Campaign"; "On the Other Hand"; "Military Funeral Held for Sergeant Ozaki Here"; "Seattle Arsonist Fined for Burning Four Homes"; "Can They Leave? -- So They Leave"; "Pamphlet to Aid Resettlement"; "Winchell Cites Mary Masuda Case in Talbert"; "Commits Suicide"; "Want Ads Today"; "League Complains …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 19 (ddr-densho-156-331)

Original summary excerpt: The most significant press development of the week is the growing opinion in some quarters that at least part of the fire directed against Japanese-Americans is not genuinely inspred but is part of a political maneuver to divert attention away from the European theater of war. In other words, WRA and Japaense-Americans are …

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av Edwin (Ed) Sasaki oral history interview (ddr-csujad-9-1)

Oral history interview of Edwin (Ed) Sasaki, a professor of the Psychology Department, conducted by the Public History Institute at California State University, Bakersfield. Professor Sasaki was born in Sacramento, California, in November 1940 and grew up in Weiser, Idaho. He recollects his family's experiences during the World War II, being arrested as a suspect and …

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img Ms. Felicita at her divorce suit hearing (ddr-njpa-1-329)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Felicita Court Hearing Ends. The public hearing for the divorce suit of Hideto Nakano (37) and Felicita (28), sparked by the break up of their international love, is still ongoing with Judge Shirakata of Tokyo Regional Court's First Civil Section presiding and the lawyers Kiyose and Sugiura for the plaintiff and Hatoyama …

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vh Bert Nakano Interview (ddr-densho-1000-67)

Nisei male. Born March 5, 1928, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Incarcerated at the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Resettled in Gardena, California. Member of the Little Tokyo People's Rights Organization (LTPRO) and National Coalition for Redress/Reparations (NCRR).

(This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the …

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doc Standing committees of the House of Representatives of the United States, 102nd Congress (January 29, 1991) (ddr-csujad-55-2137)

Lists of standing committees of the House of Representatives. Committees include agriculture, appropriations; armed services, banking, finance, and urban affairs; budget, District of Colombia, education and labor, energy and commerce, foreign affairs, government operations, house administration, interior and insular affairs, judiciary; merchant, marine, and fisheries; post office and civil service, public works and transportation, rules; science, …

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. 39, No. 7, July 2002 (ddr-sjacl-1-502)

Newsletter covering the following topics: Seattle Japanese American Green Lake Reunion, August 2002 at the Seattle Japanese Baptist Church; Arlene Oki?s President Report included recap of 2002 National JACL convention in Las Vegas: Ryan Chin elect VP for Membership, was VP for Public Affairs; Maya Yamasaki succeeds Tatsuo Nakata as NY/SC chair; Seattle receives runner up …

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Collection CSU Fullerton Center for Oral and Public History Japanese American Oral History Project Collection (ddr-csujad-29)

The Japanese American Oral History Project features oral histories with narrators who talk about their lives, pre and post World War II, but most specifically, about their experience being incarcerated in camps during World War II.

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vh Hitoshi H. Kajihara Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-30-4)

Attending college

This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Because of the full conference schedule, our interviews were limited to one hour. The interviews therefore focused primarily …

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vh Hitoshi H. Kajihara Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-30-1)

Remembering Pearl Harbor day

This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Because of the full conference schedule, our interviews were limited to one hour. The interviews therefore …

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vh William Marutani Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-44-25)

Reflections

This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Because of the full conference schedule, our interviews were limited to one hour. The interviews therefore focused primarily on …

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vh William Marutani Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-44-1)

Background information

This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Because of the full conference schedule, our interviews were limited to one hour. The interviews therefore focused primarily …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-44-1/

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