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Narrator Francis Mas Fukuhara
Nisei male. Born January 30, 1925, in Seattle, Washington. Spent prewar years in Seattle's Nihonmachi/Yesler Terrace area. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Drafted into the Military Intelligence Service (MIS). Postwar commander of Nisei Veterans Committee (NVC) in 1988 and 1989.
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Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. IV No. 22 (May 26, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-234)
Selected article titles: "Relocation Assistance Will be Facilitated. Eligibility Determination, Early Issuance of Grants Will be Made at Centers" (p. 1), "Ickes Burns Hoodlums for Attacks on Evacuees; Return to Coast Unabated" (p. 1), "Nisei Serving Armed Forces Against Japan" (p. 1), "Seattle Mayor Demands Chief Bring Action" (p. 1), "Negro Moderator Will Speak Here" (p. …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 18 (October 1, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-17)
Selected article titles: "WRA Rules Evacuees Can Leave Centers" (p. 1), "New Regulations Provide Three Types of Leaves for Colonists" (p. 1), "Military Necesstiy Challenged In Test Case on Evacuation" (p. 2), "Relocation Center Reports First Murder, Suicide" (p. 2), "Officials in Dither as Nisei Soldier Visits California Home" (p. 2), "Hirabayashi Case Will Be Heard …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 34 No. 1 (January 5, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-1)
Selected article titles: "Supreme Court Sets Aside Ruling Restoring Citizenship to Two Wartime Strandees" (p. 1), "Legal Showdown Nears Over Government Subversives List" (p. 2), "JACL Joins 21 Groups in Suit Over Restaurant Segregation" (p. 3), "Former Seattle Kendo Group Gives Hall to Nisei Veterans" (p. 3), "Minorities and Crime. Opponents of Cultural Diversity Present a …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 66, No. 5 (February 2, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-5)
Selected article titles: "Jury duty not burdensome but a privilege, Judge Sakuma Notes" (p. 1), "Seattle JACL has niche in meeting needs of a Puget Sound area with eight million" (p. 1), "U.S. empasis in Asia foreseen in future" (p. 1), "Chuman continues to challenge Nisei to fight poverty" (p. 1), "Negro-Japanese story to be told" …
![Ko Nakatani Yukio sogi kinen [Commemorative photograph for the late Yukio Nakatani's funeral] (ddr-csujad-25-336)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/37/7f/377f2efa4862ecdab05e4f00d012e054.jpg)
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Ko Nakatani Yukio sogi kinen [Commemorative photograph for the late Yukio Nakatani's funeral] (ddr-csujad-25-336)
A group photograph of the attendees of Yukio Nakatani's funeral held at a Buddhist temple. The photograph is taken on August 23, 1937 by "Aiko," a photo studio in Seattle, Washington. Funeral flowers are offered by: Yamaguchi Prefecture Association, Holiness Church, Kamejiro Yuasa, Yoshihito Yuasa, Shigezaburo Fukuhara, Fumikichi Okazaki, Sadao Nakatani, Cannery Workers, and others. See …
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. 5 No. 46 (June 7, 1944) (ddr-densho-125-243)
Selected article titles: "New York Hostel Now Open to Servicemen" (p. 1), "Quell Rumors" (p. 1), "Death of First Nisei Reported in Pacific" (p. 1), "Myer Backs Japanese Return to Coast" (p. 1), "Aged-Issei Reported in Seattle for Health" (p. 1), "Tokyo Comments on Tule Lake Incident" (p. 1), "Seek to Prevent Colonization in East" (p. …
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Japanese Language Class students (ddr-densho-134-21)
These students are dressed up for a presentation at North Seattle's Japanese Language Class. This class was the first organized activity for children of the early North Seattle Issei immigrants. Classes were first given at a private residence and then moved to the Community Hall, located at North 100th and Corliss Avenue. Back row (L to …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 99 (August 17, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-186)
Selected article titles: "Baiting Tactics Loosing Support"; "City Council's Opinion"; "On the Other Hand"; "War Relocation Authority's Insistence on Liquidation Plan Severely Criticised"; "A 'By-Product'"; "Choose Departure Date -- Or Else"; "2 Hotel Owners in Seattle Facing Suits on Rentals"; "Sergeant Fills New Job"; "Betrothal of Yuriko Date to Dr. Ernest Torigoe Told"; "Information for Veterans …
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HyeEun Park Interview (ddr-sjacl-2-28)
Brent Seto and Bill Tashima interviewed HyeEun Park. HyeEun Park was Chapter President in 2013 and as a Korean American was the Seattle JACL's first non-Nikkei President. Park was deeply concerned with the lack of equity and equality in our justice system. Park pushed the Chapter to host an event to remember the anniversary of Vincent …
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Sarah Baker Interview (ddr-sjacl-2-31)
Brent Seto and Bill Tashima interviewed Sarah E. Baker. Baker was a four-time Chapter president from 2016-2019, two-time National JACL Vice-President from 2018-2022, local activist, community organizer, actor/dancer/director who balanced these tasks while working full time and being a full-time undergraduate/graduate student. Baker organized two community-wide gatherings to support API LGBTQ+ youth and families, galvanized Seattle …
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Petition for Rehearing (ddr-densho-385-1)
Fujio Hata requests a rehearing from Judge J. Charles Dennis in Seattle, Washington to reconsider his request of parole from Lordsburg U.S. Army Internment Camp so that he could be reunified with his family incarcerated at Tule Lake Concentration Camp. His son was sick and being treated at Tule Lake Hospital.
Fujio Morikawa kept a journal …
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Sharon Yuen Interview (ddr-densho-1012-18)
Sansei female. Born July 1945 in Seattle, Washington. Daughter of Gordon Hirabayashi.
(This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.
This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or …
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Takayoshi general store and delivery wagon (ddr-densho-34-158)
This general store was located in Yama, the Japanese village in Port Blakely, Washington. The store served the Japanese village by providing general merchandise, Japanese goods brought over from Seattle, fresh homemade ice cream, and the only telephone in the village. The store's owner put a piano in the store after it became a community gathering …
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Makoto Otsu Interview (ddr-densho-1000-497)
Nisei male. Born March 26, 1926, in Steveston, British Columbia, Canada. Grew up in Steveston, where father fished for a cannery. During World War II, the family was forced to leave Steveston and moved to the abandoned Minto Mine site in the Bridge River Valley of British Columbia. After staying for a few years, Makoto moved …
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Giro Nakagawa Interview (ddr-densho-1000-422)
Nisei male. Born March 13, 1921, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Kent, Washington, where parents ran a farm. In the 1930s, moved to South Bend, Washington, to work for the New Washington Oyster Company. During World War II, removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and soon left to work on farms in Utah for …
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Rae Takekawa Interview (ddr-densho-1000-89)
Sansei female. Born August 27, 1927, in Bellevue, Washington. Raised on the family farm in Bellevue, Washington, prior to World War II. Was incarcerated at the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Was released early to harvest sugar beets in Chinook, Montana. At the onset of World War II, her father was …
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Aya Uenishi Medrud Interview (ddr-densho-1000-213)
Nisei female. Born April 9, 1925, in Malden, Washington. Grew up in Seattle, Washington, before being removed with family to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. From Minidoka, relocated with family to Utica, New York. Worked in Japan for the U.S. Army of Occupation, and for the Tokyo General Army Hospital …
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Interview with Harry Fukuhara, part 1 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1632)
Fukuhara discusses growing up in Seattle and Auburn, WA, the time he spent in Hiroshima as a child, his time working before college, studying at Woodbury College in LA, his reaction to Pearl Harbor, evacuation, and entering the Tulare assembly center with his sister. Video starts at 0:50. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind …
Narrator Seichi Hayashida
Nisei male. Born May 15, 1919, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in a Japanese American farming community in Bellevue, Washington. Incarcerated at the Pinedale Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, both in California, and at Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Longtime member and supporter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL).
Narrator Frank Isamu Kikuchi
Nisei male. Born October 21, 1924, 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.
Narrator Sally Sudo
Nisei female. Born December 1, 1935, in Seattle, Washington. During World War II, removed with family to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, resettled in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Spent many years raising a family and teaching in Japan before eventually returning to Minnesota.
Narrator Dorothy H. Sato
Nisei female. Born May 24, 1923, in Carlisle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle, Washington, where parents ran a hotel. During World War II, removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, lived for a time in Chicago, Illinois, before returning to Oregon.
Narrator Takae Tanino Walts
Nisei female. Born August 4, 1930, in Bellevue, Washington. Grew up in Bellevue, where parents ran a farm. During World War II, removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, returned to Seattle, Washington, and eventually established a career as a flight attendant.
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Ray Ishii Interview (ddr-sjacl-2-41)
In this interview, Ana Tanaka and Joy Misako St. Germain led the conversation with Ray Ishii who served as the Seattle JACL President in 1994. Ray was first involved with JACL in the late 80's and early 90's encouraged by community leader Al Sugiyama and others, including Janice Deguchi and Joy Misako St. Germain, who encouraged …