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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 6 (ddr-one-7-48-6)

Prewar community activities

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 7 (ddr-one-7-48-7)

Attending Japanese language school

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 5 (ddr-one-7-48-5)

Memories of childhood

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 2 (ddr-one-7-48-2)

Mother's life in Japan

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-48-3)

Mother's experiences coming to the U.S. as a "picture bride"

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 4 (ddr-one-7-48-4)

Description of family's farm

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 13 (ddr-one-7-48-13)

Reuniting with father in Minidoka

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 1 (ddr-one-7-48-1)

Father's family background

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 16 (ddr-one-7-48-16)

Encountering discrimination upon returning to Hood River

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 12 (ddr-one-7-48-12)

Remembering the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 14 (ddr-one-7-48-14)

Returning to Hood River after the war

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 15 (ddr-one-7-48-15)

Volunteering for the army

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 10 (ddr-one-7-48-10)

Memories of "evacuation day"

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 8 (ddr-one-7-48-8)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 11 (ddr-one-7-48-11)

First impressions of Tule Lake

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 18 (ddr-one-7-48-18)

Reflections

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 17 (ddr-one-7-48-17)

Raising a family

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vh Sab Akiyama Interview Segment 9 (ddr-one-7-48-9)

Witnessing FBI raid of family home

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vh Hy Shishino Interview Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-386-30)

Helping to form the St. Thomas Lutheran Church

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Narrator Thomas T. Kobayashi

Nisei male. Born September 4, 1916, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle and graduated from the University of Washington prior to World War II. Fired from job at Seattle City Light after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. During the war, was removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Volunteered for …

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Narrator Thomas T. Noguchi

Thomas Noguchi was the first Japanese American to serve as the Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner of Los Angeles Country. Well-known for conducting autopsies of public figures such as Robert F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and William Holden, Noguchi was in the position between 1967 and 1982. As a Shin Issei immigrant born in Japan (in 1927) and trained …

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Narrator Hitoshi Thomas Tamaki

Nisei male. Born 1917 in Eatonville, Washington, and grew up in nearby Tacoma, Washington. Was in Boston attending medical school when World War II started, so was not incarcerated in concentration camps with other family members. Practiced medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after the war.

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vh George Iseri Interview (ddr-one-7-40)

Nisei male. Born April 23, 1920, in Thomas, Washington. Grew up in Thomas where father ran a general store. During World War II, removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to work in Weiser, Idaho, and opened a service station. Eventually moved to Ontario, Oregon.

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Japanese Favored By Chamber of Commerce. Seattle Commercial Organization Will Send Resolutions to President Decrying Proposed Immigration Treaty. Hold Discrimination Will Injure Coast. (March 20, 1907) (ddr-densho-56-80)

doc Japanese Favored By Chamber of Commerce. Seattle Commercial Organization Will Send Resolutions to President Decrying Proposed Immigration Treaty. Hold Discrimination Will Injure Coast. (March 20, 1907) (ddr-densho-56-80)

The Seattle Daily Times, March 20, 1907, p. 8

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img U.S. officers decorated for campaigns against Japan (ddr-njpa-1-570)

Caption on reverse:: "U.S. officers decorated for campaigns against Japanese. Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb (right), Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, presents the Legion of Merit decoration to Brigadier General De Witt Peck, USMC (left), and the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Lieutenant Colonel Frank Dailey, USMC (center). The award to Gen. Peck was for …

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