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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 21 No. 16 (October 20, 1945) (ddr-pc-17-42)

Selected article titles: "U.S. Army Reveals Work of Nisei in Pacific. Japanese Americans in ATIS Provided U.S. With Human 'Secret Weapon' During War" (p. 1), "Federal War Agencies Modify Remove Special Restrictions Against Japanese Americans" (p. 1), "Police Kept Close Watch on Nisei Caught by War in Japan" (p. 1), " Tule Lake Group Will Initiate …

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Refused by Japan. Will Fight for U.S. Descendant of Old Family of Fighters. Seattle Nipponese is Certified for Service in Uncle Sam's National Army and Is Proud of It. (August 19, 1917) (ddr-densho-56-299)

doc Refused by Japan. Will Fight for U.S. Descendant of Old Family of Fighters. Seattle Nipponese is Certified for Service in Uncle Sam's National Army and Is Proud of It. (August 19, 1917) (ddr-densho-56-299)

The Seattle Daily Times, August 19, 1917, p. 11

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Collection CSU Dominguez Hills George and Mitzi Naohara Papers (ddr-csujad-38)

The George and Mitzi Naohara Papers consists of photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by George and Mitzi Naohara, and other documents pertaining to the Naohara and Masukawa family. Contained are photographs, correspondence, documents, and memorabilia depicting their experiences during World War II. George Nobuo Naohara is a Kibei Nisei, and his experiences include his farm labor …

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vh George Koshi Interview (ddr-densho-1008-1)

Kibei male. Born June 16, 1911, in Greeley, Colorado. Raised in Denver, Colorado, until the age of five. Sent to Japan for schooling in 1917 and returned to the U.S. at the age of seventeen. Continued his education to eventually become the first Nikkei attorney in the state of Colorado. Drafted into the U.S. Army in …

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Narrator George Koshi

Kibei male. Born June 16, 1911, in Greeley, Colorado. Raised in Denver, Colorado, until the age of five. Sent to Japan for schooling in 1917 and returned to the U.S. at the age of seventeen. Continued his education to eventually become the first Nikkei attorney in the state of Colorado. Drafted into the U.S. Army in …

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. II No. 14 (April 3, 1943) (ddr-densho-97-122)

Selected article titles: "WRA Eases Leave Regulations. Clearance Not Necessary, Cash Grants Provided" (p. 1), "Alien Evacuees Serving in Army Eligible for U.S. Citizenship" (p. 1), "Return to Center is Possible" (p. 1), "Supreme Court Asked Opinion on Legality of Evacuation Order" (p. 1), "Project Head May Now Issue Indefinite Pass" (p. 1), "Acute Shortage of …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 29 (December 17, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-28)

Selected article titles: "Army, WRA Take Swift Action To Segregate Instigators of Recent Manzanar Disturbance" (p. 1), "WRA Moves Nisei Leaders to Death Valley" (p. 1), "JACL Will Enter Court Case On Nisei Citizenship Rights" (p. 1), "Coast Newspapers Comment on Manzanar" (p. 2), "Korematsu Case Briefs Filed in U.S. District Appeals Court" (p. 2), "L.A. …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 18 No. 9 (March 4, 1944) (ddr-pc-16-10)

Selected article titles: "Nisei Defies Nazis, Saves U.S. Major" (p. 1), "Japanese Americans First to Storm Cassino" (p. 1), "Restoration of Rights Sought by Granadans" (p. 2), "50 Thousand Evacuees May Not Return to California, Believes S.F. Chronicle Writer" (p. 2), "Granada Evacuees Plead Guilty to Draft Evasion" (p. 2), "Chicago Sun Sees Economic Basis for …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 19 (November 16, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-46)

Selected article titles: "Thirteen Japanese Americans Win Election to Territorial, County Offices in Hawaii" (p. 1), "Petition for Rehearing Filed In Oyama Land Law Case" (p. 1), "Report Renunciants in Texas Detention Camp Placed Under 'Relaxed Internment' Policy" (p. 2), "Home Town Barber Refuses To Cut Hair of Nisei Veteran" (p. 2), "Los Angeles Nisei Survives …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 32 No. 14 (April 7, 1951) (ddr-pc-23-14)

Selected article titles: "Rule Terminal Isle Group Eligible Under Claims Act. Precedent-Setting Adjudication Reverses Earlier Contention Held by Justice Department" (p. 1), "Masaoka Asks Action to Speed Payment of Evacuee Claims" (p. 1), "Renunciant Wants to Return to Volunteer for U.S. Army" (p. 2), "Contributions of Issei Group to American Life Stressed in JACL Testimony to …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 29 No. 8 (August 20, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-33)

Selected article titles: "Plan to Initiate Case for New Supreme Court Test of State Alien Land Law in California" (p. 1), "Galen Fisher Initiates Move To Oppose Appointment of Bendetsen to High Army Post" (p. 2), "Ruling Permits Longer Japan Visits by Nisei" (p. 2), "Undertake Study of Adjustment of Former Tuleans in Hawaii" (p. 2), …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 7 (February 19, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-7)

Selected article titles: "Many Cemeteries in Chicago Continue Policy of Refusal to Bury Remains of Nisei War Dead" (p. 1), "Settlement of Evacuation Loss Claims Must Await Passage of Appropriation by Congress" (p. 1), "Japan to Seize Dollar Credits of Repatriates" (p. 1), "Stranded Nisei Cases Set for Trial in L.A." (p. 1), "Japanese Hail U.S. …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 31 No. 16 (October 21, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-42)

Selected article titles: "Nisei Army Sergeant Survives 'Death March' of U.S. POWs From Seoul to Pyongyang" (p. 1), "President Truman Pays Tribute to Nisei Soldiers in Speech at Luncheon in Pearl Harbor" (p. 1), "Report North Koreans May Be Confusing Nisei for Japanese" (p. 1), "Nisei Veterans Relive War as MGM Films 'Go for Broke' (p. …

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img Sasaki family at the Jerome camp (ddr-csujad-38-275)

Photographed is the Sasaki family incarcerated at the Jerome camp in Arkansas, including Ichiji and Shika Sasaki, and their Nisei son in the U.S. Army uniform. The photo was sent from Sally Sakaye Sasaki at the Jerome camp to Mitzi Masukawa Naohara at the Poston camp in Arizona. A photo from: Mitzi Naohara photo album (csudh_nao_0200), …

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doc Letters from Makoto Okine to Seiichi and Dorothy Okine, January 26, 1946 (ddr-csujad-5-127)

Contains two letters written by Makoto Okine along with an envelope. He writes to his father and sister, Seiichi and Dorothy Okine separately, encloses the two letters into the same envelope, and mails to Seiichi Okine's place in Hawthorne, California. The letters are written in Leghorn, Italy where Makoto Okine is stationed as a U.S. Army …

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doc WAR Department report of change of status and address; Cash receipt (ddr-csujad-5-75)

A copy of WAR Department report of change of status and address submitted by Masao Okine and dispatched by the U.S. Army Fort Meade, Maryland. He claims that Seiichi, Tomeyo, and Dorothy Ai Okine are his dependants and requests family allowance to them. Also includes a cash receipt of 29.00 dollars for lease in Hawthorne, California, …

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img 522nd Field Artillery Battalion soldiers (ddr-densho-114-87)

Original caption: Castrellina Sector, Italy. Men of the 522nd Field Artillery Bn., 442nd Infantry Regt., 34th Division, are firing a 105-MM Howitzer in the Battle for Leghorn. The American born Japanese, of which the 442nd Inf. Regt. consists, here are, L. to R., Cpl. Edward Nakamura, Honolulu, T.H., Gunner; Pfc. George Tanna, Honolulu, T.H., No. 1 …

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img Nisei technicians working on calculations (ddr-densho-114-98)

Original caption: Castrellina Sector, Italy. In the Fire Direction Center of the 522nd Field Artillery, 442nd Inf. Regt., 34th Division, Lt. George S. Meany, Greenwich, Conn., Left, works with his Japanese American crew. In the center is T/Sgt. Shuichi, Sakamoto, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, calculating vertical control and S/Sgt. Yuki Ahaki, Modesto Calif., at the horizontal control, …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 68 (June 7, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-3)

Selected article titles: "Fighter Knew Why He Was Fighting"; "Phi Beta Kappa Girl Can't Get in School"; "On the Other Hand"; "Fund to be Sent to Prisoners"; "Favor Holding Island Defense"; "WAC Lieutenant to Speak Thursday Night"; "Speaking for Selves"; "Brave Sergeant Dies in Action"; "Chicago Paper Comments on Defeat of Congressman"; "Judge Sets July 10 …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 42 (April 6, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-131)

Selected article titles: "List Japanese American Soldier War Casualties"; "On the Other Hand"; "Pin-Up Girls to be Judged by Soldiers"; "Tear Down Nipponese Flag in Los Angeles"; "Nisei Nurse Fulfills Wish to Join Army U.S."; "Resettlement Aide Named on East Coast"; "Answer: Plain Kindness for Returning Niseis"; "Make Strong Appeal to Common Sense in Book"; "Want …

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. 2, No. 21 (ddr-densho-156-198)

Article titles: "Joseph Smart Will Direct Jap Centers in Mountain States"; "Japanese Decries Mass Evacuation"; "Japanese Found Dead in Blood-Stained Room"; "Diplomas Presented to 143 Japanese High School Graduates"; "Postal Route Will Open to Serve Reception Center"; "Tule Lake Japanese Will Not Produce Potatoes for Sale"; "Colorado Jap Who Slew Wife Sentenced to Die"; "No Fairs …

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Letter from F. de Amat, Consul of Spain, to Mr. Shizuo Sasaki, Secretary, Spanish Consul Joint Committee, Topaz, Utah, February 18, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-886)

doc Letter from F. de Amat, Consul of Spain, to Mr. Shizuo Sasaki, Secretary, Spanish Consul Joint Committee, Topaz, Utah, February 18, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-886)

Correspondence from F. de Amat, Consul of Spain, to Shizuo Sasaki, Secretary, Spanish Consul Joint Committee, regarding selective service of the Japanese American citizens. Includes information from the Embassy in Washington. D.C. regarding obligations of American citizens of Japanese descent to serve in the U.S. Army. Letter relayed from the Consul of Spain in San Francisco …

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img Mexico's military leaders during World War II (ddr-njpa-1-45)

Caption on the reverse: "Mexico Unanimously Votes War Against Germany, Italy, Japan: Another whole-hearted supporter of President Camacho is his predecessor, former President Lazaro Cardenas, to whom is attributed much of Mexico's modern progress. General Cardenas, center, now commander-in-chief of Pacific Coast defenses in cooperation with the U.S., is walking with his chief aides, Commodore R. …

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vh 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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vh 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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