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Gordon Hirabayashi talks press before the first day of trial against the U.S. government (ddr-csujad-52-39)
Caption under image reads, "HEADING FOR COURT--Gordon Hirabayashi talks to reporters Monday on his way to the Federal Courthouse in Seattle for the first day of a trial in which he seeks to prove the U.S. government suppressed, destroyed and altered evidence attesting to the loyalty of Japanese-Americans in order to justify their wartime internment." See …
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Manzanar Free Press Relocation Supplement Vol. 1 No. 15 (July 28, 1945) (ddr-densho-125-383)
Selected article titles: "Receive Pamphlet on Schools" (p. 1), "2795 Evacuees Relocate to Northern California" (p. 1), "Four Evacuees Accepted in Santa Clara Union" (p. 1), "Two Special Cars Leave Heart Mountain Center Monthly for West Coast" (p. 1), "List of Benefits Given by Insurance Company" (p. 2), "Topaz Reserves Trains for Terminal Leaves" (p. 2), …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 106 (September 5, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-193)
Selected article titles: "Deportation is Definite Now"; "Indiscriminate Act Hit"; "'Fought, Hoped and Prayed'"; "Public Opinion Poll Will be Launched in Seattle"; "$50,000 Fire in Former Japanese Town Revealed"; "Stockton Unit Suspended"; "Misunderstanding Told in Bay City"; "Army Removes All Bars on Loyal Returnees; Effective September 1"; "Farmer Complains Two Men Ordered Them to Depart"; "Oyama …
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In Memory of Tatsuo Nakata Interview (ddr-sjacl-2-32)
In this interview, Brent Seto led a panel of Tatsuo Nakata's friends (Akemi Matsumoto, Emily Momohara, Joy Shigaki, Arlene Oki, and Bill Tashima) in a remembrance of Tatsuo Nakata. The charismatic Nakata was a leader for Japanese American and mixed-race youth as well as the Seattle JACL's youngest Chapter President. Nakata pushed the envelope for the …
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David Sakura Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-513)
Sansei male. Born March 28, 1936, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Eatonville, Washington, where father worked for a lumber company. During World War II, removed with family to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Father served in the U.S. Army during the war. After leaving camp, lived in public housing …
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Hiroko Nakashima Interview (ddr-densho-1000-69)
Kibei female. Born 1927 in Spokane, Washington. Went to Japan at the age of twelve with her mother and sister to visit relatives and gain a "Japanese education." Was in Japan when World War II broke out, remaining there for the duration of the war. Returned to the United States soon after the war ended, married …
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Elaine Ishikawa Hayes Interview III (ddr-densho-1000-163)
Nisei female. Born June 30, 1923, in Willows, California. Grew up in Sacramento, California, prior to World War II. During the war, was removed to the Sacramento Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend college in Wisconsin, and later moved to Chicago, Illinois. Post-World War II, was active in …
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Elaine Ishikawa Hayes Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-157)
Nisei female. Born June 30, 1923, in Willows, California. Grew up in Sacramento, California, prior to World War II. During the war, was removed to the Sacramento Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend college in Wisconsin, and later moved to Chicago, Illinois. Post-World War II, was active in …
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Elaine Ishikawa Hayes Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-158)
Nisei female. Born June 30, 1923, in Willows, California. Grew up in Sacramento, California, prior to World War II. During the war, was removed to the Sacramento Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend college in Wisconsin, and later moved to Chicago, Illinois. Post-World War II, was active in …
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David Sakura Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-498)
Sansei male. Born March 28, 1936, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Eatonville, Washington, where father worked for a lumber company. During World War II, removed with family to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Father served in the U.S. Army during the war. After leaving camp, lived in public housing …
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Angela Berry Interview (ddr-densho-1001-30)
Female of Filipino American descent. Born in 1979 in Seattle, Washington, but grew up on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Granddaughter of Felix Narte, one of the well-known Filipino men on Bainbridge Island who worked for the Japanese American strawberry farmers.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National …
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Yukiko Takahashi Interview (ddr-densho-1001-22)
Nisei female. 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.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. V No. 19 (July 7, 1945) (ddr-densho-119-146)
Selected article titles: "Relocatees Should Contact G.E. Gaff for N.Y. Hostel" (p. 1), "Special Pullman Leaves on July 12" (p. 1), "Army Reports 2111 Nisei Casualties" (p. 1), "Calif. CIO Unions Practice Fairness Toward Evacuees" (p. 1), "Sweeping Blaze Threatens Tower" (p. 1), "WRA Investigates Boycott Cases Reveals D.S. Myer" (p. 1), "Soldiers Demand Working Rights …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. V No. 13 (May 26, 1945) (ddr-densho-119-140)
Selected article titles: "Memorial Services Honor Twelve Hunt Servicemen" (p. 1), "Seattle Friends Committee Aids Returnees From Hunt" (p. 1), "U of Missouri Fires Nisei Instructor" (p. 1), "Reported Casualties Among Soldiers of Japanese Ancestry by Location of Next of Kin and Source of Information May 12, 1945" (p. 1), "Japanese Return Subject of Letter to …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. V No. 9 (April 28, 1945) (ddr-densho-119-136)
Selected article titles: "Casualties High as Nisei Spearhead New Offensive" (p. 1), "Jury Acquits Three Arsonists at Trial in Sumio Doi Case" (p. 1), "Resettlement Assistance Given on Basis of Need" (p. 1), "No Seasonal Leaves to be Given Here" (p. 1), "Any Resemblance to Ku Kluxers?" (p. 2), "WRA Policies Featured in Springfield Paper" (p. …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. V No. 12 (May 19, 1945) (ddr-densho-119-139)
Selected article titles: "Sec'ty H. Ickes Denounces Attacks Against Returnees" (p. 1), "'Sole Surviving Son' Policy Changes Revealed" (p. 1), "Red Cross to Aid Families of Soldiers" (p. 1), "Nisei Family Unwelcome in Seattle; Home Defaced" (p. 1), "Legal Aid Receives Regulations on Unblocked Funds" (p. 1), "New York Leaders Discuss Evacuee Resettlement Aids" (p. 2), …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. V No. 11 (May 12, 1945) (ddr-densho-119-138)
Selected article titles: "Comprehensive Assistance Program to Aid Resettlers" (p. 1), "Oregon Alien Law Clarified by WRA" (p. 1), "Regular Project Workers Entitled to Vacation Leaves" (p. 1), "Alien Funds Released by U.S. Treasury" (p. 1), "President Truman Authorizes Transfer of Funds" (p. 1), "Army Board Reviewing Cases Here" (p. 1), "Project School Closure Dates Definitely …
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Letter to Ancel Payne from Mr. and Mrs. M. Katayama (ddr-densho-510-2)
Includes copy of letter to McGaffin from Mr. and Mrs. M. Katayama. (ddr-densho-510-1)
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Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 39 (ddr-densho-1000-138-39)
Discovering that family home in Seattle had been donated to a museum in Japan, and physically relocated there
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 …
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Shosuke Sasaki Collection (ddr-densho-274)
This collection consists of documents from the personal collection of Mr. Shosuke Sasaki, an Issei who immigrated to the U.S. in 1919. During World War II he was incarcerated in Minidoka, Idaho, and later worked for Standard & Poor's financial institution for many years. His papers document his work with Minidoka's Welfare Department, as well as …
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Japanese Passport for Masa Kosai with stamps for entry at Seattle, Washington on October 23, 1918, January 21, 1921, February 10, 1926, September 21, 1938, May 18, 1941 (ddr-densho-349-46)
Original Japanese document and English and French translations
Narrator Shigeko Sese Uno
Nisei female born April 6, 1915, in Seattle, Washington's International District. At an early age became active in the Japanese Baptist Church. Parents owned and operated a dairy plant called White River Dairy. Was a student at the Baptist Missionary Training School in Chicago, Illinois. Took a group of young women on an eye-opening trip to …
Narrator Kathryn Bannai
Elaine Kim and Bill Tashima interviewed Kathryn Bannai. Kathryn Bannai was the lead counsel in Gordon Hirabayashi's coram nobis case (1983 – February 1985). Among other critical work, she successfully defeated the government's effort to dismiss Hirabayashi's case, which led to overturning Hirabayashi's convictions for resisting the curfew and exclusion orders promulgated under E.O. 9066. Bannai …
Narrator Earl Hanson
White male. Born June 29, 1923, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up on Bainbridge Island, Washington, with many Japanese American friends. Observed the mass removal of Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island during World War II. Served with the 1901st Aviation Engineers during the war, and was stationed in Okinawa. Returned to the Bainbridge Island, Washington, area after …
Narrator Peggie Nishimura Bain
Nisei female. Born March 31, 1909, in Vashon Island, Washington. Raised in Vashon Island and Des Moines, Washington, before being removed with her two children to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California. Later transferred to Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and Minidoka, Idaho, before resettling in Chicago, Illinois. Lived and worked in Chicago before eventually returning to …