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![Letters from Makoto Okine to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, March 21, 1946 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-138)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/79/73/79737edc7b7e81b38605349932a42594.jpg)
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Shintani family (ddr-csujad-38-154)
A house of the Shintani family where George and Mitzi Naohara rented a room while George was attending U.S. Army language school in Presidio of Monterey, California. A photo from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 32. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_01_32_002
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 78 (February 19, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-163)
Selected article titles: "Workers May Return Here: Contract Groups Included in Ruling" (p. 1), "Picture Proofs Will Be Distributed" (p. 1), "Canteen 4... Store Occupies New Building" (p. 1), "High School Will Reopen On Monday" (p. 1), "Saturday Registration Schedule For Citizens Is Announced" (p. 1), "PFC Takahashi is on Furlough Here" (p. 1), "Activities at …
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Roy Matsumoto Interview (ddr-densho-1001-40)
Nisei male. Born May 1, 1913, in Laguna, California. Lived in Japan from childhood through teenage years, before returning to the United States during high school. Incarcerated in the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Volunteered for the U.S. army in 1942, and was inducted in the Military Intelligence Service. Selected …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 17 (April 30, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-17)
Selected article titles: "Seattle to Dedicate Memorial to Nisei GIs" (p. 1), "Prejudice in San Francisco Against Nisei Group Told in Report to Mayor's Committee" (p. 1), "JACL Asks for Ending of Segregation in Army. Masaoka Urges Positive Action to Abolish Discrimination in United States Armed Forces" (p. 1), "Japan's Press Watches U.S. Move to Repeal …
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Ira C. Eaker leaving his plan, the "Yankee Doodle" (ddr-njpa-1-256)
Caption on reverse: "These Men Made First All-U.S. Raid on Nazi Europe. A dozen American Flying Fortresses, manned by United States Army Air Force crews and personally led by Brigadier General Ira C. Eaker, bombed Rouen, France, 87 miles northeast of Paris, in the first all-U.S. bombing attack on German-held Europe. Not a single American plane …
Narrator Norman I. Hirose
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. …
Narrator Hitoshi "Hank" Naito
Nisei male. Born April 20, 1926, in San Diego, California. Grew up in Terminal Island, California, where father was a fisherman. During World War II, removed with family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Family was transferred to Tule Lake in response to father's answers on the so-called …
Narrator Minoru J. Shibata
Nisei male. Born 1928 in San Francisco, California. Spent most of childhood on Terminal Island, California, where father was a fisherman. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was arrested by the FBI and the rest of the family moved to Ogden, Utah, to farm. Served in the Army Air Corps in Japan during the U.S. …
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Wedding Reception of Olinda Saito and Sgt. Raymond Funakoshi (ddr-one-2-50)
Black and white photographic print of wedding reception for Olinda Saito and Sgt. Raymond Funakoshi at the American Club in Tokyo, Japan. Six individuals standing behind a table featuring a cake, flowers and candles, (from left): Olinda Saito (bride), Raymond Funakoshi (groom), unidentified, Olinda Saito’s mother, Olinda Saito’s sisters Aki Saito and Yoshi Saito. Shiuko Sakai, …
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Sailing on "Tartan" (ddr-one-2-60)
Black and white photographic print of (from left) Lt. Hughes, Tami Okamura, Lt. Col. Glenn and Olinda Saito seated on a boat with ships on right side of image and in background. While Lt. Col. Glenn was attending the U.S. army language school, Lt. Hughes invited Shiuko Sakai, Tami Okamura and Olinda Saito for outing on …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 12 (March 25, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-12)
Selected article titles: "More Than Thousand Nisei Volunteer in WRA Centers" (p. 1), "JACL Files Brief in Oshiro Evacuee Property Test Case In L.A. as 'Friend of Court'" (p. 1), "Two Thousand Alien Japanese Interned By U.S." (p. 2), "Nisei Girls Seek Enlistments in Women's Army Corps" (p. 2), "Jewish Americans Oppose Bill To Return Centers …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 22 No. 8 (February 23, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-8)
Selected article titles: "Kido Reiterates Determination to Leave JACL Presidency on Eve of Convention in Denver" (p. 1), "Seven Draft Case Leaders Win Release" (p. 1), "Report Notices for Release From Detention Received for Some Renunciants in Tule Lake" (p. 2), "Seattle Woman Regains U.S. Citizenship by Court Action" (p. 2), "Army Investigates Charge Nisei Discriminated …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 22 No. 9 (March 2, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-9)
Selected article titles: "300 Nisei Stranded in Japan By War, Petition for Right To Return to Homes in U.S." (p. 1), "Delegates Support Extension of JACL Work in Peacetime" (p. 1), "San Francisco Cases to Test Legality of Race Restrictions in Residential Property Deeds" (p. 2), "Three Tule Lake Residents File Writs in Court. Petitioners Declare …
![Letters from Makoto Okine to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, March 21, 1946 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-138)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/f2/d6/f2d676c6faf70429087ca489030c9f0c.jpg)
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Letters from Makoto Okine to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, March 21, 1946 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-138)
Contains two letters and one envelope mailed by Makoto Okine from Italy where he is stationed as an U.S. Army soldier. He writes to his parents, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine in Hawthorne, California, separately and encloses two letters in one envelope. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_01_60_001-003
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Letters from Makoto Okine to Mr. and Mrs. S. Okine, July 9, 1945 (ddr-csujad-5-84)
Contains an envelope and two letters sent from Makoto Okine to his parents, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. Makoto writes from Lecco, Italy, where he is deployed as a U.S. Army soldier to his parents who are incarcerated in the Rohwer incarceration camp, Arkansas. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …
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Nisei captain giving medical treatment (ddr-densho-114-32)
Original caption: Castrellina Sector, Italy. Capt. George Takahashi, San Mateo, Calif., 422nd Inf. Regt., 34th Div., calms an aching tooth for Pvt. James Hoshi, Los Angeles, Calif., 522nd Field Artillery, assisted by Tec 5 Abraham Tokioka of Honolulu, T. H., who holds a flashlight. The scene is in a wine cellar of a recently evacuated German …
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. II No. 33 (October 5, 1942) (ddr-densho-125-77)
Selected article titles: "U.S. Army Seeks Nets" (p. 1), "Spike That Rumor" (p. 1), "Block Managers Hold Meeting" (p. 1), "Family Arrives From Tanforan" (p. 1), "Beet Furlough Work Cuts Down Manpower Twenty-five Per Cent" (p. 1), "Welcome Dillon Myer" (p. 1), "Housing Problems Tackled" (p. 1), "Greyhounds to Chase Rabbits" (p. 1), "Publicity and the …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 80 (July 5, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-16)
Selected article titles: "McNeil Island and Leavenworth Bound"; "On the Other Hand"; "Notices of Appeal Filed in the U.S. Court"; "Farmer Dies in Accident"; "Blood of All Peoples"; "Name Chairman at Conference of Ministers Here"; "Supporting Fair Cause"; "For Sale"; "Busseis Will Honor Graduates"; "Stabbed"; "Boogie Woogie Lecture in Professor Hayagawa Set"; "Reclassification Act Clarified at …
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Family photograph (ddr-densho-154-1)
Photo donor's aunt, Masako Nakagawa, pictured with husband Masato, holding their infant daughter Seiko. Also in the photograph are Masako's uncle and aunt, the Yamasakis. Masako was born in Seattle, Washington, but was sent back to Japan at a young age and never returned to the U.S. She died of disease in Hiroshima during World War …
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Highways of honor, Military Intelligence Service, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion (ddr-csujad-1-185)
A booklet of California memorial highways to honor three entities of the United States Army, 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Military Intelligence Service. Includes an article, "The Nisei soldiers of U.S. Intelligence: America's superb secret weapon of World War II" by Dan Nakatsu. Images and map during the Pacific War are included. See …
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Hiroshi Terry Terakawa Interview (ddr-jamsj-2-12)
Nisei male. Born January 3, 1929, in Kyoto, Japan. Came to United States as a young child with parents. Moved frequently as a child due to father's role as a Buddhist minister, living in places like Walnut Grove and Marysville, California. During World War II, was living in Salt Lake City. Drafted into the army and …
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Masao Watanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1000-103)
Nisei male. Born December 10, 1923, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up near the Nihonmachi area of Seattle. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. In 1943, volunteered for the army while in camp. Served in Europe with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, L Company. Returned to Seattle after the war and …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. V No. 17 (June 23, 1945) (ddr-densho-119-144)
Selected article titles: "W.R.A. Centers Face Closure Before Jan. 1, 1946 Deadline" (p. 1), "Members of 442nd Guard German Prisoners in Italy" (p. 1), "U.S. Court Upholds Inductions of 98 Poston Youths" (p. 1), "Soldiers Protest Evacuee Treatment on West Coast" (p. 1), "Church Council in Seattle Starts Intensive Program" (p. 1), "New Rules Give Better …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 82 (February 27, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-169)
Selected article titles: "Aliens May Be Accepted in U.S. Army" (p. 1), "Messages to Japan Are Being Taken" (p. 1), "National Sawmill" (p. 1), "Registration Sked For Citizens Listed" (p. 1), "Co-op Stores... Scrip Exchange to be Stopped" (p. 1), "Procedure For Soldiers to Visit Tule Lake Given By DeWitt" (p. 1), "Identification For Workers: Divisions …
Narrator Ehren Watada
Male of Japanese and Chinese American descent. Born 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Graduated from Hawaii Pacific University in 2003, and enlisted in the U.S. Army. Received his officer's commission, and served in Korea in 2004 and 2005. While stationed in Fort Lewis, Washington, in 2006, asked for permission to resign his commission based on his understanding …