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vh Kenji Suematsu Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1003-11-13)

Living in a hotel after the war

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vh Kenji Suematsu Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1003-11-14)

Parents' work to reestablish lives after the war

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vh Bill Watanabe Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1003-9-17)

Parents work to rebuild after the war

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vh Bill Watanabe Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1003-9-19)

Hearing about family burying items before the war

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vh Chikaye Sande Azeka Hashimoto Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1003-6-10)

Parents reestablish cleaning business after the war

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vh Mary Woodward Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1001-32-8)

Memories of Japanese Americans returning home after the war

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vh Sally Shimako Nishimori Kitano Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1001-5-5)

Encountering discrimination upon returning home after the war

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vh Tomiko Hayashida Egashira Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1001-24-8)

Returning to Bainbridge Island after the war

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vh Hisa Matsudaira Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1001-27-9)

Class distinctions before and after World War II

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vh Roy Matsumoto Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1001-40-16)

Serving as an interpreter during the war crimes trials

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vh Roy Matsumoto Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1001-40-14)

Assigned to interrogate Japanese prisoners of war in China

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vh Harold "Hal" Champeness Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1001-39-5)

The atmosphere on Bainbridge Island during the war

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vh Harold "Hal" Champeness Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1001-39-3)

Serving in the navy during World War II

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vh Iku Amatatsu Watanabe Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1001-36-9)

Living in Chicago after the war

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vh Setsuko Izumi Asano Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-392-17)

Living in New Orleans after the war

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vh Setsuko Izumi Asano Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-392-10)

Older sisters left in Japan during the war

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vh Richard E. Yamashiro Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-333-22)

Living in Japan after the war, witnessing hardships

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vh Emi Somekawa Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-378-24)

Returning to former nursing job after the war

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vh Emi Somekawa Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-378-23)

Parents work to reestablish lives after the war

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vh Bill Hiroshi Shishima Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-393-24)

Remaining active in the Boy Scouts after the war

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vh Shizue Irei Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-407-6)

Fleeing home village during the war

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vh 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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Narrator Rae Takekawa

Sansei female. Born August 27, 1927, in Bellevue, Washington. Raised on the family farm in Bellevue, Washington, prior to World War II. Was incarcerated at the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Was released early to harvest sugar beets in Chinook, Montana. At the onset of World War II, her father was …

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Narrator Shyoko Hiraga

Nisei female. Born 1927 in Denver, Colorado. Grew up in Denver, where father was a tailor, then established a newspaper, the Rocky Nippon. During World War II, father was removed as editor of the newspaper, arrested by the FBI, and interned in a Department of Justice camp. James Omura took over as head of the newspaper, …

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Narrator Grant Hirabayashi

Kibei male. Born November 9, 1919, in Thomas, Washington. Went to Japan at age twelve, attended school, and returned to the U.S. as a high school student. Enlisted in the army just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and was eventually recruited for the Military Intelligence Service. Selected as one of fourteen Japanese Americans to …

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