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129 items
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Weekly Press Review No. 37 (ddr-densho-156-349)
Original summary excerpt: The American Legion national convention at Omaha, Nebraska proved to be the greatest news source this week. By and large, the news accounts of the convention were significantly restrained in reporting the two resolutions dealing with Japanese Americans -- one urging deportation of all alien Japanese and disloyal citizens of Japanese ancestry at …
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Clark L. Ruffner (ddr-njpa-1-1366)
Caption on reverse: "Brig. Gen. Clark L. Ruffner, deputy chief of staff for operations on the staff of Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, Jr., commanding general of army troops in the Central Pacific area, is shown in a picture taken just after his promotion from the rank of colonel. Gen. Ruffner served with several cavalry units …
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Contraband articles: Western Defense Command (ddr-csujad-55-864)
List and description of items classified by the Western Defense Command as contraband. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0866
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 23 No. 14 (October 12, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-41)
Selected article titles: "Northern California ACLU Says Government Still Holding 631 Persons at Texas Camp" (p. 1), "Protest Restrictive Covenants At West Los Angeles Meeting. Civil Rights Groups Support Right of Japanese American Family to Occupy New Home" (p. 1), "500 Japanese Canadians Deported to Japan Aboard United States Army Vessel" (p. 2), "Federal Judge Raps …
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'What about Hugh Kiino' (ddr-csujad-19-82)
This article from a magazine "Harper's," vol. 187, no. 1121 (October 1943), by S. Burton Heath is about a Japanese American citizen called Hugh Kiino. It addresses how Kiino, his wife, and seven thousand other Japanese Americans were forced by the United States army to leave their homes, desert their businesses and enter incarceration camps. See …
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Weekly Press Review No. 6 (ddr-densho-156-318)
Original summary: Military service and Middle West employment program continued as chief news sources. Hawaiian Japanese have responded enthusiastically to Army enlistment program; no newspapers have published reports on resopnse in the continental United States. Considerable local resentment to resettlement in Middle West has apparently developed. Act to prohibit land ownership by Japanese in Arkansas was …
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"Entering 92d Inf Div Area 1942-1945" (ddr-densho-201-405)
One-hundred-page booklet. Title on cover: "Entering 92nd Inf Div Area 1942-1945." Page three: "October 1942 - June 1945 With the 92d Infantry Division; Published by Information - Education Section, MTOUSA [Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army]; Compiled by Historical Committee, 92nd Infantry Division. Photos Courtesy 'THE BUFFALO' and APS. Drawings- Sgt. Ted Shearer; Maps-S/Sgt. Rodney …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 30 No. 23 (June 10, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-23)
Selected article titles: "U.S. Senate Approves Amended Walter Bill. Resolution Opens American Citizenship to Alien Japanese Residents of United States" (p. 1), "JACL Hails Supreme Court Rulings in Segregation Cases as Victory for Democracy" (p. 1), "Move for Equality in Armed Forces Spell End of All-Nisei Units in Army, Says Masaoka" (p. 2), "Practice of Oriental …
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Carl Spaatz and Henry Arnold speaking to each other (ddr-njpa-1-1832)
Caption on reverse: "U.S. air chiefs in Italy. Lieutenant General Carl A. Spaatz (left) and General Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces, talk things over during a visit by Gen. Arnold to the Naples sector in Italy following historic Allied conferences in Cairo, Egypt, and Teheran, Iran. Gen. Spaatz, at …
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American Concentration Camps Volumes 1-9 Collection (ddr-densho-372)
The documents printed here in these nine volumes trace and explicate not only the decision to submit a whole people to internal exile but also delineate the execution and modification of the policy during the course of the war. The documents were drawn largely from the archives of the government department chiefly responsible, the War department, …
Narrator Charles Olds
White male. Born 1913 in Karuizawa, Japan, to missionary parents. Attended Canadian school in Kobe, Japan, before coming to the United States with his older brother. He attended the University of Chicago School of Social Work, then volunteered to work for the War Relocation Authority (WRA). He later worked as a relocation officer in the concentration …
Narrator Hiroshi Terry Terakawa
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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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 12 (April 3, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-193)
Selected article titles: "Relocation Procedure is Simplified: Leave Clearance Not Needed on WRA Offers. Cuts Former Red Tape to Resettle" (p. 1), "Optometric Clinic Note" (p. 1), "15 Transferred to Isolation Center: Are Unregistered Group of Colonists" (p. 1), "Rules Governing New Leave Setup Is Given" (p. 1), "Tickets For Raffle Ready" (p. 1), "Block 47: …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 27 No. 19 (November 6, 1948) (ddr-pc-20-44)
Selected article titles: "Senator Barkley Says New Democratic Congress Will Carry Out Civil Rights Pledges" (p. 1), "Truman Victory, Democratic Majority in Congress May Change Coming ADC Campaign" (p. 1), "Judge Mathes Says Kawakita Death Sentence Decision 'Terribly Hard' One to Make" (p. 2), "Hundred Nisei Seek Civilian Posts in Japan. Tests to be Given For …
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Letter from Ai Chih Tsai to U.S. Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service, Chicago (ddr-densho-446-221)
Response to letter dated May 28, 1946. First entry to US on Sept 1, 1938, as student on Taiyo Maru at San Francisco. Most recent entry to US on Dec 17, 1945, on SS General Freeman at Seattle after USSBS. Will leave US on June 12 on USS Marine Lynx for 1-year mission with UNRRA.
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Japanese family, female children (ddr-csujad-25-300)
A page from a photo album including Japanese family photographs. Six photographs are pasted on the page. Includes: Japanese or Japanese American female children along with Caucasian female children. In one of the photographs, Japanese female children pose holding "hagoita." Another photograph captures a United States Army Air Corps aircraft taken in July 1932, most likely …
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Memo from Ted Nakamura, Central Comm. Chairman, to all block managers, DSS form 165, February 13, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-188)
Memorandum of understanding from Ted Nakamura to Block Managers at Tule Lake regarding registration form WRA 304a (also known as the "loyalty questionnaire") and whether or not an individual is volunteering his services for the United States Army when filling out the form. Memo also includes a copy of the Application for Voluntary Induction, DSS Form …
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Kay Sweeney Interview (ddr-one-7-8)
Japanese female. Born 1922 in Kagoshima, Japan. During World War II, served as a nurse with the Japanese army in Jakarta and Japan. After the war, moved to the United States and lived in San Francisco before eventually settling in Portland, Oregon.
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Charles Olds Interview (ddr-densho-1000-121)
White male. Born 1913 in Karuizawa, Japan, to missionary parents. Attended Canadian school in Kobe, Japan, before coming to the United States with his older brother. He attended the University of Chicago School of Social Work, then volunteered to work for the War Relocation Authority (WRA). He later worked as a relocation officer in the concentration …
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Frank H. Hirata Interview (ddr-densho-1000-271)
Kibei-Nisei male. Born November 19, 1925, in Spokane, Washington. At the age of ten, went to Japan with grandfather. During World War II, was conscripted into the Japanese army, and was still in training when the war ended. After the war, continued education, graduating from Kyoto University with a law degree. Got married in 1957 and …
Narrator Frank H. Hirata
Kibei-Nisei male. Born November 19, 1925, in Spokane, Washington. At the age of ten, went to Japan with grandfather. During World War II, was conscripted into the Japanese army, and was still in training when the war ended. After the war, continued education, graduating from Kyoto University with a law degree. Got married in 1957 and …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 91 (March 10, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-175)
Selected article titles: "Hostel Will Take Resettlers to House Evacuees Job Seeking in East: Public Meeting Tonight to Present Project" (p. 1), "Minidoka Leads 5 Camps in Army Volunteers" (p. 1), "Granada Red Cross Drive" (p. 1), "6608 to be Used For Alien Registration" (p. 1), "Friends Group Advises All Citizens to Register" (p. 1), "Thurs. …
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Kazuichi Takanishi Collection (ddr-densho-314)
The Kazuichi Takanishi Collection is comprised of government documents the family gained through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents detail Takanishi's arrest after Pearl Harbor, his interragation, internment, parole to Chicago, Illinois, and return to Hawaii after the war ended.
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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 …