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vh Hikaru Morohoshi Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-303-2)

Being sent to Japan to live as a child

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vh Minoru Tajii Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-394-15)

Oldest brother sent to Japan before the war

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vh Shig Oka Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-74-3)

Older brother sent to live in Japan

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vh Joe Kino Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1001-33-2)

Sent to Japan as a child

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 21 No. 19 (November 10, 1945) (ddr-pc-17-45)

Selected article titles: "1300 Veterans of 442nd En Route to U.S." (p. 1), "Heart Mountain Camp Closes as Evacuees Leave" (p. 1), "Expatriate Files Suit to Regain Citizen Rights" (p. 1), "Unclaimed Ashes of Tule Lake Aliens to be Sent to Japan" (p. 2), "WRA to Relocate 11,000 From Tule Lake Relocation Center" (p. 8), "Second …

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doc Letter from Oregon Governor Sprague and rebuttal from Ichiro Hasegawa, Richard Higawa, and Ken Sekiguchi from Tule Lake (ddr-densho-423-156)

Letter sent to President Roosevelt and reprinted in the Oregon Journal, arguing that Japanese incarcerees should be forced to work on the sugar beet harvest or be deported to Japan. The detailed rebuttal from Hasegawa, Higawa and Sekiguchi gives exact numbers of available labor, problems with work conditions on the farms, hypocrisy of demanding the removal …

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doc Letter from Yasu Ikuma to Shoji Nagumo, September 2, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-892)

Letter from Yasu Ikuma in Tokyo, Japan to Shoji Nagumo in Los Angeles, California. It was sent via the Red Cross and forwarded to the Heart Mountain incarceration camp where Shoji Nagumo was incarcerated. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0894

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doc Letter from Kan'ichiro Nagumo to Shoji Nagumo, March 23, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-890)

A message sent via the Red Cross from Kanichiro Nagumo in Gunma-ken, Japan, to Shoji Nagumo in Los Angeles, California, and forwarded to the Heart Mountain incarceraton. For English translation, see: sac_jaac_0893. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0892

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img Moji Port (ddr-csujad-38-446)

A group photograph of the U.S. soldiers, including George Nobuo Naohara. It was taken when they departed the Moji Port in Japan for Korea. The captions read: We are about to board on the ship. President Truman issued the order. General MacArthur was the Commander. 24th Infantry Division was sent to Pusan. The Korean War broke …

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vh Frank Fukuhara Interview (ddr-densho-1004-1)

Kibei male. Born August 25, 1924. As a child, sent to live in Japan after father's passing. Attended school in Japan and was drafted into the Japanese military. During the U.S. occupation, was reunited with brother who had been serving with the Military Intelligence Service.

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Collection Ben Mayewaki Collection (ddr-densho-563)

The collection contains materials from and related to Ben Mayewaki time serving the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) at Fort Snelling in Minnesota, with the 5th Air Force Headquarters in Brisbane, Australia, and in the New Guinea campaign. In 1944 Ben was reassigned to Military Intelligence in Washington DC and attached to the Pentagon. While in D.C. …

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doc Letter from M. Kurima to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, January 22, 1946 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-126)

A letter from Tadashi Mac and Fusaye Alice Kurima in Chicago, Illinois, to their relatives, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine in Hawthorne, California. Kurima thanks them for the Christmas gift and congratulates on their daughter, Hatsuno's marriage. He also writes about Masao Okine who sent a 5-yen bill to Kurima from Japan. See this object in the …

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vh Haruye Murakami Hagiwara Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-284-12)

Oldest sister sent to live in Japan before World War II

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vh Yuriko Yamamoto Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-408-6)

Two brothers sent to live in Japan before the war

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vh Roy H. Matsumoto Interview Segment 86 (ddr-densho-1000-153-86)

Meeting an old acquaintance from MIS language school leads to a job in Tokyo

Although Mr. Matsumoto does not identify himself as a Kibei (American-born person of Japanese ancestry sent to Japan for formal education and socialization when young and later returned to the U.S.), some of his life experiences are similar to those who do …

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vh George Nakata Interview Segment 34 (ddr-one-7-29-34)

Reuniting with brother and sister sent to Japan before the war

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vh George Nakata Interview Segment 12 (ddr-one-7-29-12)

Description of siblings who were sent to Japan before the war

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vh Yoneko Dozono Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-19-3)

Being sent to Japan at age sixteen to attend school

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vh Masamizu Kitajima Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-287-9)

Sent to Japan to live with grandfather and enter ministry training

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doc Article about Kansaburo Ageno (ddr-njpa-5-112)

Translation of article: Kanzaburo Ageno is going to Japan as a professor of fisheries. Kanzaburo Ageno, second-generation fisherman from Maui, has decided to go to Japan with his family. He is leaving April 22 on the Kamakara-maru to be a professor at the Yaezu fisheries school at Shimizu Port in Shizuoka Prefecture. He will be sent …

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vh Yoneko Dozono Interview (ddr-one-7-19)

Nisei female. Born February 4, 1915, in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Portland before being sent to be educated in Japan at age sixteen. Married and had children in Japan, working for the military government after World War II. Returned to Portland in the 1950s with family.

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 37 No. 5 (July 31, 1953) (ddr-pc-25-31)

Selected article titles: "House DP immigration bill includes Japanese" (p. 1), "Seattle next site of 442nd RCT 15th anniversary reunion in '58" (p. 1), "Resolution admitting 500 U.S.-adopted war orphans from Japan and Korea sent to White House for Ike's signature" (p. 1), "Equal consideration for Japanese in Trading With Enemy Act amendments plea of JACL …

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doc Letter from Miyuki Matsuura to Mr. and Mrs. S. Okine, October 30, 1947 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-214)

A letter from Miyuki Matsuura to her uncle and aunt, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. She thanks them for the chrysanthemums they grew and sent to her. She keeps some of the flowers in her parlor and some of the flowers on Mrs. Freitas' grave. She includes updates on her work including finishing picking tomatoes and starting …

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vh Norman I. Hirose Interview (ddr-densho-1013-7)

Nisei male. Born June 22, 1926, in Oakland, California. Grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed with family to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire" in 1943 because of mother's wish to have the family move to Japan. …

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Narrator Hikaru Morohoshi

Kibei Nisei male. Born October 4, 1915, in Stockton, California. As a young child, sent to Japan to live with grandparents and attend school. Returned to California at age eighteen, and drafted into the U.S. military. Discharged from the army after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, Washington, and the Topaz concentration …

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