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5069 items
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 18 No. 2 (January 15, 1944) (ddr-pc-16-3)
Selected article titles: "No Movement Of Tule Lake Troops Planned" (p. 1), "Federal Freeze Order on Evacuee-Owned Properties Lifted" (p. 1), "Evacuee Boilermen, Janitors End Six-Day Strike at Hunt" (p. 1), "Inquiries Disprove Charge Evacuees Buying Choice Farm Land, Says Denver WRA Office" (p. 1), "Japanese Aliens Still Ineligible For Armed Forces" (p. 2), "Vigilance Against …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 24 No. 11 (March 22, 1947) (ddr-pc-19-12)
Selected article titles: "Krug Urges Payment of Evacuee Claims" (p. 1), "Citizenship For Issei Urged By Masaoka at Hearing. Bemedaled Veterans Losing Lands as Result of Anti-Alien Laws, Congressmen Informed" (p. 1), "Army, Community Action Sought To Provide Recreation for GIs As Result of Seattle 'Incident'" (p. 2), "Portland Veterans Oppose Formation of Segregated Post" (p. …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 12 (September 18, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-38)
Selected article titles: "JACL joins nat'l organizations for meaningful civil rights bill" (p. 1), "Immigration law liberalized to reunite family units, bill on President's desk" (p. 1), "Important to look back to past as well as to future in all types of planning, Wakamatsu tells CLers at EDC-MDC confab" (p. 3), "300-mile radius of Magic Valley …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 66, No. 18 (May 3, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-18)
Selected article titles: "American (Gallup) opinion of Japan continues mixed" (p. 1), "JACLer hears Patsy and Sparky cast 'Yea' votes for 1968 Civil Rights Act" (p. 1), "Seattle ordinance on open housing passed unanimous" (p. 1), Architect Minoru Yamazaki designing patient-centered hospital in Toledo" (p. 3), "Hiring Nisei not enough to dismiss state bias charge" (p. …
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Japanese men and women (ddr-csujad-25-5)
A page from an album containing Japanese family photographs. Four photographs are pasted on the page. The photographs appear to be taken in Washington in the early 1900s. Include Japanese men in suits and women in western dress. Some of the photographs are possibly taken at the Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, Washington. See this object in …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 71 (June 13, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-160)
Selected article titles: "Seattle Produce Row Resisting Efforts of Returnees to Re-enter Marketing"; "Limitation on Prosecution Disclosed"; "Myer Determined to Close Eight Centers"; "San Diegan Lieutenant"; "Called Disgrace"; "Parlier Peace Justice Doesn't Like Ickes"; "Exceptional Record"; "Returnee News"; "Court Upholds Evacuee's Right"; "Three Liberated"; "League President to Visit Several Chapters"; "Victory Pamphlet by League Distributed"; "Nisei …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 117 (October 1, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-203)
Selected article titles: "Cut in Budget for WRA Argued"; "On the Other Hand"; "Stone Shatters Window of Seattle Returner Home"; "Discrimination Cases Very Few in New York"; "Nipponese Prisoners of War to Work in Cotton Fields"; "Missionary Work Among Evacuees to be Discussed"; "Dynamiting Suspects Face Trial Tomorrow"; "Repatriation Will be at Dominion Convenience"; "Demand Actors …
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Colorado Times Vol. 31, No. 4338 (July 19, 1945) (ddr-densho-150-52)
Selected article titles: "Intolerance-American Vintage: U.S. Army Publication -- Third Recon. Group Coverage Florence, Italy -- June 23, 1945"; "Anderson Scores Anti-Nisei Firms"; "Ten Japanese Aliens Returned to Hawaii"; "ACLU Renews Appeal to Navy to Lift Nisei Ban. Baldwin Contends Police Was by Field Officers"; "Tofu Factory Set Up in Minn."; "'Relocated Evacuees Muse Sell 'Will …
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Family picture in front of car and house (ddr-densho-494-25)
Photograph Caption on webpage: "Pictures from the later life of Meriko Maida, 1973-2012 / From Richmond to Sacramento / Meriko lived for many years in Richmond, California with her younger sister Junko and brother-in-law Shoichi Kimura. She later lived in various configurations with her other sister, Asako Tokuno. On some occasions, she visited both Seattle and …
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Meriko in front of a Japanese American memorial (ddr-densho-494-29)
Caption on webpage: "Pictures from the later life of Meriko Maida, 1973-2012 / From Richmond to Sacramento / Meriko lived for many years in Richmond, California with her younger sister Junko and brother-in-law Shoichi Kimura. She later lived in various configurations with her other sister, Asako Tokuno. On some occasions, she visited both Seattle and Washington, …
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Shyoko Hiraga Interview (ddr-densho-1000-413)
Nisei female. Born 1927 in Denver, Colorado. Grew up in Denver, where father was a tailor, then established a newspaper, the Rocky Nippon. During World War II, father was removed as editor of the newspaper, arrested by the FBI, and interned in a Department of Justice camp. James Omura took over as head of the …
Narrator Hideo Hoshide
Nisei male. Born September 25, 1917, in Tacoma, Washington. Grew up in Tacoma except for living in Japan for several years at age four. Attended the University of Washington in Seattle, majoring in Political Science, Far Eastern Studies, with a minor in journalism. Prior to World War II, worked as sports editor for community newspaper, The …
Narrator Joy Misako S. Germain
Ana Tanaka and Dr. Kyle Kinoshita led a conversation with Joy Misako St. Germain, detailing how she became involved with JACL and became a Seattle leader. Being one of just a few Japanese American families where she grew up, she felt a deep longing for a sense of community. Her love for Japanese American culture is …
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Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-138-30)
Returning to Seattle and attending the University of Washington
William Toshio Yasutake was interviewed together with his sister Mitsuye (Yasutake) Yamada and surviving brother, Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. He was interviewed individually on November 14, 2002.
Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct their own family …
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Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-138-1)
Born in Seattle, Washington, one of four siblings
William Toshio Yasutake was interviewed together with his sister Mitsuye (Yasutake) Yamada and surviving brother, Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. He was interviewed individually on November 14, 2002.
Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct their own family history …
Narrator Kiyo Sakahara
Nisei female. Born February 8, 1920, in South Park, Washington. During World War II, incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled during the war to Salt Lake City, Utah, and returned to Seattle after the end of World War II.
Narrator Yukiko Takahashi
Nisei female. Born April 20, 1922. Grew up on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Was working as a maid in Seattle when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. During the war, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California, and transferred to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
Narrator Tom Ikeda
Sansei male. Born January 22, 1956, in Seattle, Washington. During World War II, parents were incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Was General Manager at Microsoft Corporation in the Multimedia Publishing Group before becoming the Founding Executive Director of Densho.
Narrator Ken Roger Inagaki
Sansei male. Born January 3, 1940, in Seattle, Washington. During World War II, removed with family to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Left camp and resettled in New York and New Jersey. Established a career in safety and health consulting.
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Temple Organizations and Events Collection (ddr-sbbt-6)
The Temple Organizations and Events Collection consists of photographs and documents related to a variety of organizations and events hosted by the Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple. Primarily composed of photographs, materials in this collection highlight events hosted by the Temple's Fujinkai, Gojikai, Dharma School, Lotus Kidettes Drill Team, Lotus Lumbini Girls, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, …
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Min & Uhachi Tamesa Collection (ddr-densho-333)
The Min & Uhachi Tamesa Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, documents, and ephemera related to the lives of Uhachi Tamesa and his son Min Tamesa. Much of the collection documents Min's life as a draft resister, his imprisonment at Leavenworth Penitentiary, and Uhachi's support of his son during that period. Also, found in the collection are …
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Nobuko Omoto Collection (ddr-densho-361)
The Nobuko Omoto Collection consists of a scrapbook kept by Nobuko Sakai Omoto to remember the Bainbridge Island Japanese American community and their removal during World War II. Nobuko's scrapbook includes newspaper clippings from the local Seattle newspapers which were sent by her friend Phyllis Waltz Jones while Nobuko was incarcerated in Manzanar. Other content in …
Narrator Marian Asao Kurosu
Issei female. Born March 10, 1907, in Fukui prefecture, Japan. Graduated from Jinai Girls School. After grandfather's death, came to Seattle, Washington in 1924 to join father and uncle, working in family-run agricultural greenhouse. Arranged marriage to Mr. Roy Naoe Kurosu, an Issei working in Tacoma sawmills. Started new greenhouse in Sunnydale, Washington until all people …
Narrator Betty Fumiye Ito
Nisei female. Born March 29, 1918, in Seattle, Washington, and spent childhood in Medina and Bellevue, Washington. While in high school was a member of the Bellevue Strawberry Festival's Queen's Court. In 1939 married Kenji Ito, a prominent Japanese American lawyer who practiced in Seattle. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, recounts her experiences as her …
Narrator Yae Aihara
Nisei female. Born August 18, 1925 in Tacoma, Washington. Raised in Seattle, Washington, where family operated a grocery store. Attended Washington Grammar School and Garfield High School in Seattle. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was arrested by the FBI and sent to Missoula internment camp, Montana. Family was removed to Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, …