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img Northwest Buddhist Convention Banquet (ddr-one-1-417)

Black and white photographic negative of guests at the Northwest Buddhist Convention banquet dinner in the basement of the Seattle Buddhist Church. A flag with the Wheel of Dharma is visible behind the head table. Sitting at table in foreground on left hand side from left to right: Harry Toshi, unidentified, Irene (Fujii) Mano, unidentified and …

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doc Kichio Allen Arai and Nobu Kawaguchi's Marriage License (ddr-densho-430-48)

Marriage license for Kichio Allen Arai and Nobu Kawaguchi.

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img Photo of Ai Chih Tsai in front of Relief Supplies (ddr-densho-446-440)

Official Navy photo of Ai Chih Tsai helping in the relief supplies effort (March or April 1961)

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Collection Akimoto Collection (ddr-densho-129)

The Akimoto collection contains three photographs of the Akimoto family, who operated University Cleaners, a dye works business located in Seattle, Washington. These photos were also used in the book, The Green Lake Japanese American Community, 1900-1942.

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Narrator Chris Kato

Nisei male. Born December 8, 1926, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle. During World War II, incarcerated the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, and served in the army from 1945-1947. During his interview, he discusses memories of growing up in Seattle's Japantown.

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Narrator Takashi Matsui

Kibei male. Born January 20, 1917, in Hood River, Oregon. Lived in Seattle, Washington, before being taken to Japan by mother at the age of three. Completed elementary through high school in Japan. Returned to Seattle at seventeen years of age. Continued education in United States. Drafted in 1942 and was an instructor for the Military …

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Narrator Mae Kanazawa Hara

Nisei female. Born May 21, 1913, in Seattle, Washington. Spent childhood in Seattle before moving to Chicago, Illinois, for three years to study music. Taught music in Japan for four years before returning to Seattle. After the outbreak of World War II, removed to Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Left camp with …

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Narrator Mary Kinoshita Ikeda

Nisei female. Born May 18, 1927, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seatle, where father wsa the head bellboy at an exclusive club. Attended the Maryknoll Catholic school in Seattle prior to World War II. During World War II, removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. While at Minidoka, brother …

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doc Testimony of Emi Somekawa (ddr-densho-67-202)

Written testimony of Emi Somekawa of Portland, Oregon. Incarcerated in the North Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. This testimony was presented at the CWRIC hearing in Seattle, Washington, on Thursday, September 10, 1981, in the section titled "Family Impact and Justice." Personal information excised by Densho.

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doc The Northwest Times Vol. 1 No. 28 (April 15, 1947) (ddr-densho-229-14)

"This Is A Matter of Hitching in Japan, for Instance, One Must Marry Not Only to Eat But to Live" (p. 1), "National JACL Decides to Join With ACLU in Emilie Bouiss Case Set to be Held in Seattle Soon" (p. 1) "Hoshino KO's Rival in 4th in Isle Debut" (p. 2).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 69, No. 17 (October 24,1969) (ddr-pc-41-43)

Select article titles: "Complacency Killing Chapters" (p. 1); "After repeal of title II: The other laws protecting Internal Security" (p. 1); "Judge rules out racial clause in 1925 trust" (p. 2); "Spectre of future concentration camps in U.S." (p. 6); "Seattle Asian group assails Hoover 'racial slurs', begin petition effort" (p. 4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 59, Vol. 21 (November 20, 1964) (ddr-pc-36-47)

Selected article titles: "Seattle Sansei Freed on Bail in Mississippi" (p.1-2), "Japanese Language Project" (p.1-2), "ACLU Supports NAACP Suit to Void Prop. 14" (p.1), "When Bracero Program Ends, Call Retained Mexican Workers 'Primo'" (p1, 3), "'Inclusion' of Negro Jurors if Deliberate Held as Unconstitutional as 'Exclusion'" (p.3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 55, No. 12 (September 21, 1962) (ddr-pc-34-38)

Selected article titles: "Hart Immigration Bill" (p.1-2), "Washington Repeal Campaign on SJR 21 Moves into High" (p.1-2), "1889 Land Law 'Lies about Like a Loaded Weapon'" (p.1), "Japanese American Community Leaders First to Be Summoned in New Series of Conferences with Seattle Mayor in New Hall" (p.3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 54, No. 2 (January 12, 1962) (ddr-pc-34-2)

Selected article titles: "Japanese Leaders More Concerned Over Shabby U.S. Treatment of Japan Trade" (p.1), "Seattle City Council Turns Down Proposal to Prohibit Housing Ban" (p.1), "Nisei in Hawaii Losing Political Grip, Says Inouye" (p.1), "After Pearl Harbor" (p.2), "Li'l Tokyo Issei Cited for Goodwill Push" (p.3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 74, No. 6 (February 18, 1972) (ddr-pc-44-6)

Selected article titles: "Seattle Fire Chief Raps Article Poking Fun at Asians, Chicanos" (p.1), "L.A. High Tensions Still Unabated" (p.1), "Mike Masaoka Hands in Notice to Terminate" (p.1), "Fear of Hysteria Led to Evacuation" (p.3-4), "Spring Pilgrimage to Manzanar on Mar. 25 Prelude to Dedication" (p.3-4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 76, No. 17, (May 4, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-17)

Select article titles: "JACLer Enters Race for Mayor of Seattle" (p.1); "Two Retirement Credit Bills Introduced for Japanese American Evacuees" (p.1); "Bilingual Federal Court Proposed" (p.1); "Plight of Ainu in Japan Similar to American Indian Experience" (p.1); "Metropolitan L.A. Compares Life on Indian Reservation with Evacuation" (p.3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 112, No. 16 [April 26, 1991] (ddr-pc-63-16)

Select article titles: "Internment video gets mixed reviews" (p. 1), "Japan-Arizona trade event set" (p. 1), "Councilman makes racial remark" (p. 1), "Group honors outstanding Asian Americans" (p. 1), "Pearl Harbor news" (p. 1), "Fred Korematsu documentary being filmed" (p. 1), "Seattle remembers..." (p. 5), "No Nisei vets -- no redress!" (p. 5).

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doc Manzanar Free Press Vol. 6 No. 107 (June 30, 1945) (ddr-densho-125-352)

Selected article titles: "More Appointed Staff Members Resign as Center Closure Nears" (p. 1), "Seattle Hostels Now Available" (p. 1), "Eleven Ask Repeal of Army Status" (p. 1), "Reports Favorable on Eastern Coast for Ex-Fishermen" (p. 1), "Wilson Warns Aliens on Land Purchase" (p. 1), "Tuleans Depart for Internment Camp" (p. 1).

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img Nisei baseball teams at N.W. Class A Baseball Tournament (ddr-densho-259-366)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group portraint [sic] of Nisei baseball teams taken at the NW Class A Baseball Tournament in 1932 Among the teams represented in this picture were: Fife, WA; the Portland Fujii; White River, WA; the Hood River Nisei Athletic Club (N.A.C.); the Yakima Yamato; Bellevue; and the Seattle Waseda."

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doc Certificate of Nationality (ddr-densho-308-9)

Chiyoko Kanazawa's certificate of nationality. Kanazawa's daughter, Mae (Kanazawa) Hara recalled that her mother immigrated to Seattle, Washington in 1912. She was a gifted sewer and flower arranger. Even near the end of her life when she came to live with Hara, she would spend the mornings arranging flowers cut from the garden.

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img Kiyotaka Fukuhara as young boy with ball on porch (ddr-densho-383-38)

The Fukuharas were neighbors of the Tokuda family in Seattle in the 1930s. The Fukuhara family included Shigesaburo and Yasuko Fukuhara (c. 1905-1938) and their children Ruth Aiko Fukuhara (1921-1986), Francis Masateru Fukuhara (1925-2016), and Henry Kiyotaka Fukuhara (1928-1977). Written on album page below photograph: "Kiyotaka Fukuhara '31".

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img Bukkyo Fujinkai members eating (ddr-densho-38-12)

Issei members of the Bukkyo Fujinkai (Buddhist Women's Association) eating a meal in the Seattle Buddhist Temple kitchen. Seated (left to right): Cho Goto, Hanako Sao, Kikue Takahashi (behind Sao), unidentified, Taka Toshi, unidentified, Sasae Watanabe, unidentified, Kikue Hirata, Rieko Shimizu, and Fuiko Nakano. Standing: unidentified (back to camera), Kikuyo Tsuye, and unidentified.

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img Mass removal (ddr-densho-34-144)

Shigeko Kitamoto and her children, Jane, Frances and Frank, wait to board a special ferry to Seattle, Washington. Bainbridge Island, Washington was evacuated on March 30, 1942. It was one of the first communities on the West Coast to be evacuated presumably due to its proximity to the Puget Sound Navy Yards.

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vh Akiko Kurose Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-42)

Nisei female. Born February 11, 1925, in Seattle, Washington. During World War II, incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Longtime civil rights activist, educator, and pacifist.

(Mrs. Kurose was undergoing treatment for cancer and required frequent breaks and medication to help her with pain management.)

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doc The Imperial Japanese Government Passport for Moritaro Ishida, in Japanese (ddr-csujad-29-6)

A passport for Moritaro Ishida issued on April 8, 1916. Registered by Consulate General of Japan in Seattle on June 21, 1923. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1339_M01_01

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