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430 items
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Poston Press Bulletin Vol. VI No. 30 (November 8, 1942) (ddr-densho-145-154)
Selected article titles: "Nazis Hurled Back 210 Miles in Africa; U.S. Forces Advance East on Guadalcanal. 20,000 Nazi Prisoners Taken; 75,000 Italians Strangled" (p. 1), "Cucumbers on the Mess Tables" (p. 2), "Los Angeles Conditions Told" (p. 2), "Law Dept. Staff Meets Regarded as Democratic Administrative Method" (p. 3), "Army Should Realize Niseis Are Americans" (p. …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 85 (July 17, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-21)
Selected article titles: "State Petitions to Seize 30-Acre Ranch"; "Canadians Opposing Evacuee Resettlement"; "Paroling Procedure"; "Adjustment Expert Named to East Post"; "Officials of League Press Court Case"; "Income $6562.88"; "On the Other Hand"; "Urge U.S. Canada Action"; "Attorney to go to Los Angeles Case"; "Want Ads"; "Famed Regiment Hits Nazi Line"; "Wage Averages Study Prepared by …
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Interior living space (ddr-densho-377-1603)
View of a large interior room of a home, likely a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?this photo was likely taken during Kan's fellowship at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin East in 1939. The six photographic negatives in objects ddr-densho-377-1599 through -1604 were originally grouped together on one sheet of photo paper and are cropped from one …
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Sleeping quarters of Indonesians aboard the "Marine Lynx" (ddr-csujad-27-1)
Caption found with the image reads, "Sleeping quarters of Indonesians aboard the "Marine Lynx" with deportees standing beside bunks assigned to them." This is a group of approximately 200 Indonesian seamen who are being deported from San Francisco, California to Batavia, Dutch East Indies. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project …
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The New Japanese American News 1949 Yearbook (ddr-densho-474-54)
Postwar directory of Japanese Americans living across the United States published by Shin Nichibei (Los Angeles Japanese newspaper). Names and community organizations are listed alphabetically by geographic region (states listed generally from west to east followed by Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Caribbean Islands, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and South America). Includes 220-page photographic advertising section for Japanese-owned businesses …
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Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mildred Allen (ddr-densho-356-542)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mildred Allen. Mildred provides a list of contacts in New York City that may be able to help Yuri find a job on the East Coast. Additionally she writes about press about the war, her thoughts about Japanese Americans being released from camps and her observations of others reactions to …
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Real Estate office and building labeled East San Pedro Tract 214B (ddr-csujad-43-96)
Photograph number 1279 of a two story building, possibly a hotel, on Terminal Island. An insurance real state office and possibly Phillips Furniture Co. [Company] are pictured in front of the two story building. The sign in the street reads: East San Pedro Tract 214B. Negative scan. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese …
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Interview with Jimmie Matsumura, part 3 of 4 (ddr-densho-1007-1607)
Matsumura discusses the time he spent in Japan as a child, the difficulty of Japanese high school, his work on the Far East military tribunal post-war. Video starts at 0:24. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Audio cuts out at 20:36. Original title: II LA #34, 7-24-85, J. Matsumura Interview III. Interview …
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Indonesian deportees changing currency (ddr-csujad-27-5)
Caption found with the image reads, "Indonesian deportees having their United States money changed to currency they could use when they arrived 'home'." These Indonesian seamen were being deported by ship from San Francisco, California to Batavia, Dutch East Indies. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ind_01_01_003
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Two Rotarians, from Honolulu and Tokyo, holding an American flag (ddr-njpa-2-353)
Caption on reverse: "Ichiro Yano, right, president of the Tokyo Rotary Club, accepts the new 50-star American flag from H. Tucker Gratz, Honolulu businessman and Rotarian, in recent ceremonies in Japan. Gratz made similar presentations to Rotary organizations in Taiwan, Korea and Okinawa. Chairman of the Pacific War Memorial Commission, Gratz made a three-week tour of …
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Evacuation of the Japanese from the west coast during World War II: A social injustice or a justifiable wartime precaution? (ddr-csujad-55-2038)
Essay written for an English class covering Japanese immigration to the west coast, occupations of Japanese immigrants, discrimination, culture and customs, education, reaction to Pearl Harbor among the Japanese community, "evacuation," life in incarceration camps, Nisei in the armed forces, leaving camp, laws, and the settlement of Nisei in the Midwest and east coast. See this …
Narrator George Morihiro
Nisei male. Born September 19, 1924, in Tacoma, Washington, and spent childhood in Fife, Washington. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Drafted into the army in 1944 and joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Europe. Awarded the Purple Heart for actions in the Battle …
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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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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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Nisei defense attorney in war crimes trial (ddr-densho-114-145)
Original caption: Nisei defense attorney for Tojo, one of the major war criminals to be tried before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, War Ministry Bldg., Tokyo, Japan, is George Yamaoka, a civil service employee, who stands at the addressing stand. Mr. Yamaoka, who lives in N.Y. City, was attached to the Japanese delegation, …
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Ron Wakabayashi Interview (ddr-densho-1000-460)
Sansei male. Born November 13, 1944, in Reno, Nevada, where parents had resettled after leaving the concentration camps in Topaz, Utah, and Rohwer, Arkansas, during World War II. Grew up in East Los Angeles. Involved in a number of community social service organizations in Los Angeles, such as Oriental Concern and the Asian American Drug Abuse …
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Aerial view of naval drydocks (ddr-csujad-43-258)
Aerial photograph number 5838 of Terminal Island, San Pedro and Long Beach. Note on the back side reads: Naval Drydocks, Terminal Island, San Pedro, California. Long Beach Entrance Channel, Retractable Pontoon Bridge, looking east toward Long Beach. Contract Noy-8012. Aerial. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ter_04_063_001
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Takuritsu Morita sitting in bi-plane (ddr-ajah-6-631)
Caption below photo: Takuritsu Morita and biplane, circa 1919 to the mid 1920s. Unseen in this version of the photograph are wooden hangars that resemble those at Durant Field in East Oakland, in operation for a few years beginning in 1919, its site was soon developed, replaced by factories. Morita lived in Oakland from 1915 to …
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Letter from Sally (Fujii) Domoto to Hanako Fujii (ddr-densho-329-940)
Letter from Sally to her sister Hanako in Topaz thanking her for Christmas gifts and asking "how was Christmas in camp?" She got a card from Kaneji saying he spent New Year's with them. Invites her sister and family to come relocate to join them on the East Coast. Kan passed his physical but "he's got …
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Two letters to Yuri Domoto from Lynn Sellinger (ddr-densho-356-392)
Two letters to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Lynn Sellinger. 8/30 letter: Lynn details her life over the last two years and inquires about Yuri's and if they will be able to see each other again as they are both on the East Coast. 11/3 letter: Lynn writes to inquire if Yuriko received her last letter. Item …
Narrator Ryo Imamura
Sansei male, born April 28, 1944, in the Gila River concentration camp, Arizona. His father was the late Rev. Kanmo Imamura, a former Bishop of Hawaii and a minister for the Hawaii Kyodan and the Buddhist Churches of America (BCA). His mother Jane Imamura composed many of the children's gathas sung in the Dharma Schools. Both …
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Letter from Tom Yamamoto to Ma and Pa Waegell, November 23, 1942 (ddr-csujad-55-57)
Typed correspondence from Tom Yamamoto to the Waegells describing living conditions in Topaz incarceration camp and Yamamoto's current situation. Yamamoto discusses his work as a painter and his intentions to seek a position as an art teacher on the east coast. He also describes sleeping arrangements, food, and working conditions in the camp. See this object …
Narrator Kenji Tomita
Nisei male. Born August 25, 1924, in Alameda, California. Grew up in Alameda, where father ran a food wholesaling business. Was in high school when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Left Topaz on student leave to attend the University of …
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Japanese American family (ddr-densho-37-429)
Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Bill Hosokawa, Editor of the Sentinel, Heart Mountain Relocation Center newspaper, and the Nisei leader in center activities, and American citizen, a graduate of the University of Washington, former West Coast reporter and foreign correspondent. Bill has traveled throughout the Orient, has lived in Tokyo and …
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George Morihiro Interview (ddr-densho-1000-182)
Nisei male. Born September 19, 1924, in Tacoma, Washington, and spent childhood in Fife, Washington. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Drafted into the army in 1944 and joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Europe. Awarded the Purple Heart for actions in the Battle …