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doc Press Persons @ "Open Letter" Press Conference (ddr-densho-122-38)

Contact list of press attending press conference at Uwajimaya, personal information redacted

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview I Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-59-25)

Becoming president of Uwajimaya after father's passing

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview I Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-59-27)

The future of Uwajimaya, a tricky question of succession

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview I Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-59-9)

Parents' reasons for settling in Seattle and restarting Uwajimaya

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview IV Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-62-6)

The deli section at Uwajimaya

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Narrator Tomio Moriguchi

Ni-ten-gosei (Nisei/Sansei) male. Born April 16, 1936, in Tacoma, Washington. During World War II, was incarcerated with his family at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After the war, resettled in Seattle's Nihonmachi, where his father reestablished the family business, Uwajimaya, selling Japanese foodstuff and other items. Worked at Uwajimaya throughout his childhood -- along with …

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview I Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-59-24)

Working at Boeing & Uwajimaya, successful participation in the World's Fair

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview IV Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-62-9)

Discussion of the new Uwajimaya store

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview IV Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-62-4)

The importance of noodles at Uwajimaya

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-59)

Ni-ten-gosei (Nisei/Sansei) male. Born April 16, 1936, in Tacoma, Washington. During World War II, was incarcerated with his family at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After the war, resettled in Seattle's Nihonmachi, where his father reestablished the family business, Uwajimaya, selling Japanese foodstuff and other items. Worked at Uwajimaya throughout his childhood -- along with …

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview III (ddr-densho-1000-61)

Ni-ten-gosei (Nisei/Sansei) male. Born April 16, 1936, in Tacoma, Washington. During World War II, was incarcerated with his family at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After the war, resettled in Seattle's Nihonmachi, where his father reestablished the family business, Uwajimaya, selling Japanese foodstuff and other items. Worked at Uwajimaya throughout his childhood -- along with …

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-60)

Ni-ten-gosei (Nisei/Sansei) male. Born April 16, 1936, in Tacoma, Washington. During World War II, was incarcerated with his family at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After the war, resettled in Seattle's Nihonmachi, where his father reestablished the family business, Uwajimaya, selling Japanese foodstuff and other items. Worked at Uwajimaya throughout his childhood -- along with …

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview IV (ddr-densho-1000-62)

Ni-ten-gosei (Nisei/Sansei) male. Born April 16, 1936, in Tacoma, Washington. During World War II, was incarcerated with his family at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After the war, resettled in Seattle's Nihonmachi, where his father reestablished the family business, Uwajimaya, selling Japanese foodstuff and other items. Worked at Uwajimaya throughout his childhood -- along with …

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview I Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-59-23)

Becoming head of Uwajimaya, Inc.: business expands and father becomes ill

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview IV Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-62-2)

The introduction of pan-Asian products at Uwajimaya

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview IV Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-62-5)

Various roles siblings play in running Uwajimaya, Inc.

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview I Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-59-2)

Father's business making and delivering food to the Issei work camps, origins of Uwajimaya

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doc Testimony of Tomio Moriguchi (ddr-densho-67-152)

Written testimony of Tomio Moriguchi, president of Uwajimaya. This testimony was presented at the CWRIC hearing in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, September 9, 1981, in the section titled "Veterans."

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 85, No. 9 (August 26, 1977) (ddr-pc-49-33)

Selected article titles: "HUD Exempts Seattle Housing for Asian Elderly" (p.1), "Another 'Profile in Courage' Filed" (p.1-2), "Postwar Japanese American Marriages Still a Problem" (p.1), "Uwajimaya Schedules $1.5 Million Expansion" (p.3), "1977 JACL-Hayashi Law Awards Made" (p.4).

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. 46, No. 6, June 2009 (ddr-sjacl-1-587)

Selected article titles: "Reflection on Bon Odori" (p. 1-2), "Last Bi-District Conference" (p. 1), "Kristina Logsdon, Civil Rights Committee, Honored for Social Justice" (p. 1, 3), "UPS Honors War-Interned Japanese Americans with Honorary Degrees" (p. 1, 3), "Uwajimaya: Changing Face, Same Spirit" (p. 2).

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. VII, No. 11, November 1970 (ddr-sjacl-1-124)

Bulletin covering the following topics: Vietnam veteran, Green Beret, Roy Ogasawara, to address Board. Spent 2-1/2 years in Vietnam; more than 40,000 people saw JACL exhibit Pride and Shame at Mohai; Eira Nagaoka writes on ?Residue of Wartime Propaganda Still Persists;? nice recap of Fred Cordova?s talk with board, ?Filipinos are 50 years behind Japanese Americans. …

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vh Tomio Moriguchi Interview (ddr-sjacl-2-23)

Kristen M. Eng and Bill Tashima interviewed Tomio Moriguchi. While Moriguchi is often associated with Uwajimaya, Moriguchi's community activism includes co-chairing MOHAI"s "Pride and Shame" exhibit, displaying WWII JA experience through the "Pride" of the Japanese Americans and the "Shame" of racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and lack of government leadership. This exhibit later toured throughout Washington …

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doc Seattle Times: Exhibits celebrate immigrants' strengths, talents in new country (ddr-densho-446-452)

Article titled "Japanese-American women" noted that the 11 NW women added to the exhibit at the Burke were chosen by a committee of their peers.

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doc Seattle Post-Intelligencer (ddr-densho-446-451)

Selected articles: Seattle woman's saga captured in photo (p.1-2); Club Asia (p. 2)

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