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1048 items
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The bride and groom (ddr-njpa-1-42)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Music [illegible] Wedding. The Imperial Household Ministry's Musical Section [illegible] Mr. Comelie [?]. (Tokyo) February 13, 1934. Ethiopian bride [illegible] wedding march is being cheerfully played [illegible] Mr. Etano Comelie [?] (41), who has [illegible] the Imperial Household Ministry's Musical Section's [illegible] since [illegible] as the conductor of the Italy Cappi [?] …
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Helen Keller's Akita, Kenzan-go on board a ship (ddr-njpa-1-756)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Akita Given to Ms. Keller Travels to America. (Tokyo) June 2, 1939. The Akita Kenzan-go (male, 3 years old), a messenger of US-Japanese goodwill being sent to Helen Keller, the saint of three burdens, was accompanied by his former owner Ichiro Ogasawara, a kendo instructor for the Akita Police, to Wharf B …
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Mike Murase Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-526)
Sansei male. Born January 25, 1947, in Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan. Moved to the U.S. with family at age nine and grew up in Los Angeles, California. Graduated from UCLA and was involved in a number of civil rights movements and organizations. One of the founders of Gidra, the groundbreaking Asian American publication. Worked for both of …
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Mike Murase Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-525)
Sansei male. Born January 25, 1947, in Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan. Moved to the U.S. with family at age nine and grew up in Los Angeles, California. Graduated from UCLA and was involved in a number of civil rights movements and organizations. One of the founders of Gidra, the groundbreaking Asian American publication. Worked for both of …
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Alan Kumamoto Interview (ddr-densho-1000-464)
Sansei male. Born January 21, 1940, in Los Angeles, California. While very young, removed with family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Father joined the Military Intelligence Service out of camp, and Alan and his mother resettled in Chicago, Illinois. After father rejoined the family, they returned to …
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Bill Watanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1003-9)
Nisei male. Born January 5, 1944, in the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After World War II, left camp with family for the Los Angeles area, where parents had lived before the war. Established a career as an engineer. Active in the Little Tokyo Service Center.
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. III No. 51 (September 14, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-48)
Selected article titles: "School Bell Tolls Today: 4000 Trudge Off to Get Education" (p. 1), "Crime is Subject of Forum Tonight" (p. 1), "Clear Ground for Hog Pens" (p. 1), "Work Corps is Disrupted" (p. 1), "Tokyo Feels Necessity of English Language" (p. 1), "D.R.A.B. Carson: Project Has No Control Over Medic-Staff Transfer" (p. 3), "Fire …
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An Oral History with Mitsuhiko H. Shimizu - Segment 1 (ddr-csujad-29-57-1)
Issei community leader and businessman in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo recounts his arrest by Federal Bureau of Investigation after Pearl Harbor, his experiences in internment camps in North Dakota and Louisiana, and the Manzanar incarceration camp, California. This oral history was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project, Oral History Program, CSU Fullerton. Translated into …
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Unveiling ceremony for sculpture commemorating Antarctic expedition (ddr-njpa-4-946)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "December 20, 1936. South Pole expedition 25th anniversary ceremony. A ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the South Pole expedition as held on the 20th from 1:00 p.m. at a park on the Shibaura coastal road in Tokyo. The committee chairperson, vice-chairperson Yujiro Miyake, the former captain of the South Pole expedition, …
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Photographs of a statue and the sculptor (ddr-njpa-4-1397)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Statue of 'Masaoka,' who was a local retainer to the Date family. Built at Shokaku Temple in Nakameguro. (Tokyo) July 11, 1934. The statue of 'Masaoka' will be built at Shokaku Temple in Nakameguro, where she spent her last day. She tried to help her Date master during the family's trouble, and …
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Women's association leaders (ddr-njpa-4-1105)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "President Motono of Patriotic Women's Association. Celebration of her seventieth birthday. (Tokyo) March 2, 1937. The Patriotic Women's Association's 36th anniversary of their founding ceremony was held on the 2nd from 10:00 a.m. at the Patriotic Girls' School auditorium, then from 11:00 a.m. in Meguro a banquet was held to celebrate the …
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Agnes Yoshiko Miyakawa (ddr-njpa-4-1088)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "A songstress who grew up in a foreign country, Yoshiko Miyakawa came home. This morning a world-famous singer, Yoshiko Miyakawa, came home on the Ryuden Maru, arriving at Yokohama Bay. Yoshiko is still a bud at 19 years old. She played the leading role in 'Madam Butterfly' in Paris in January of …
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Sankuro Ogasawara and two other Ministry of Finance officials (ddr-njpa-4-1718)
Caption on reverse: "JAPAN FINANCE MINISTER HERE: Sankuro Ogasawara (center), Japanese finance minister, was a brief visitor here Saturday night enroute to Washington, D.C., where he will attend general meetings of the International Monetary Fund and of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was accompanied by Gengo Suzuki (left), financial commissioner, and Taroichi Yoshida, …
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Photograph of Kosho Otani, Lady Otani, Zenyu Aoki, and Otani's aide (ddr-njpa-4-1645)
Caption on reverse: "NISHI HONGWANJI HEAD, WIFE GREETED HERE: Chief Abbot Kosho Ohtani, titular head of the Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist sect, and Lady Ohtani arrived here last evening at 6 from Tokyo by Pan American Clipper for a six-day stay before resuming their eight months' world tour next Monday at 9:30 p.m., when they leave for …
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Short article regarding Yasuzo Shimizu's wife (ddr-njpa-4-2142)
Article: "Mrs. Shimizu Here For Three-Week Visit. Mrs. Ikuko Shimizu, wife of Yasuzo Shimizu of the Obirin Gakuen near Tokyo, arrived here this morning aboard the APL liner President Cleveland after a year's tour of the mainland United States. She will remain here for about three weeks, and is scheduled to sail for Japan on the …
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Masayo and Reiko Osawa being cheered by students (ddr-njpa-4-1667)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Welcome party for Ozawa sisters of diving. (Tokyo) October 9, 1936. A welcome party for Misses Masayo and Reiko Osawa, Olympic swimming representatives, was held at [?] on the afternoon of the 9th. This party was planned by their old schools, alumni, [?] and [?]. About 1,300 people attended this party, which …
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The wives of Mineo Osumi, Tomosaburo Kato and other naval leaders (ddr-njpa-4-1782)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "The wife of the Minister of the Navy hosted a tea party. (Tokyo) 1934 April 10. The wife of the Minister of the Navy hosted a tea party, as an established customer, at 1 p.m. at the official residence of the Minister of the Navy. The number who attended was over ten …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 18 No. 5 (February 5, 1944) (ddr-pc-16-6)
Selected article titles: "Fifty-Nine Members of Nisei Unit Awarded Purple Heart For Wounds in Italy Campaign" (p. 1), "Japanese Canadians Refuse To Accept Japan Foodstuffs In Protest Against Fascism" (p. 1), "Gen. Emmons Warns Against Retaliation" (p. 1), "Railroad Offers Settlement To Evacuees in Accident Suit" (p. 1), "Hawaii's Japanese Americans Major Factor in Rebuilding Territory's …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 21 No. 10 (September 8, 1945) (ddr-pc-17-36)
Selected article titles: "Army Revokes All Coast Exclusion Orders. Proclamations By Gen. Pratt, Stimson End Military Ruling Which Implemented Evacuation" (p. 1), "Anti-Nisei Group Organizers Face Fraud Charge in Seattle" (p. 1), "Five Tule Lake Youths Freed From Camp Jail" (p. 2), "Protest Canadian Program for Repatriation of Evacuee Group" (p. 2), "U.S. Coast Guard Revokes …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 70, No. 5 (February 6, 1970) (ddr-pc-42-5)
Selected article titles: "Seats limited for Matsunaga talk" (p. 1), "'Project Reading' to be emphasized, ethnic studies also planned in Fowler" (p. 1), "School supplies and craft material needed for shipment to U.S. Indians" (p. 1), "Industrial security act passes 274-65" (p. 1), "JACL pursues justice on Dr. Noguchi case" (p. 1), "Parents held responsible for …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 43, No. 11 (September 14, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-37)
Selected article titles: "California Farm Bureau Endorses Prop. 13, to urge 70,000 members" (p. 1), "Organization Stand on 'Tokyo Rose' Hearing to be Considered" (p. 1), "Nat'l JACL convention coverage noted in top Atlantic seaboard newspapers" (p. 1), "Nisei statistician notes more women over 50 dying of heart disease lately" (p. 2), " "Final half of …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 99, No. 12 (September 21, 1984) (ddr-pc-56-37)
Selected article titles: "Sansei principal turns L.A.'s Jefferson High around" (p. 1), "House subcommittee hears HR 4110 redress testimony" (p. 1), "Japan fingerprinting constitutional for alien registration, Tokyo court rules" (p. 1), "1st all-Fresno J-town reunion attracting over 350 Sept. 29-30" (p. 1), "Calif. Proposition 39: Reapportionment battle of 1980 may be settled" (p. 3), "Japan …
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Broadcast affair Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-26-18)
Chronological account of an Office of War Information visit to Tule Lake to ask incarcerees to broadcast about the conditions of the incarceration camp in response to reported propaganda broadcasts on Tokyo radio. Report describes conditions under which the broadcast would have been made, details of meetings, and arguments for and against the broadcast. Report compiled …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 110 (September 14, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-197)
Selected article titles: "Vets Present for Gift to Truman"; "On the Other Hand"; "Niseis in Japan Called 'Cute,' Uninfluential"; "'Ordained Stars' Topic for Sermon This Sunday"; "Order to Deport Certain Aliens"; "Sergeant Gosho Guest of League at Denver in N.Y."; "Seek to Extradite 'Tokyo Rose' on Treason Charge"; "10 Families Get Housing"; "Nippon Liberals 'Have Christian …