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891 items
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Letter from Tsuna Watanabe to Honorable Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, November 30, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-2002)
Correspondence from Tsuna Watanabe to Henry Stimson regarding loyalty to the United States and requesting release from Topaz incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2105
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Sociology essay (ddr-csujad-55-1916)
Sociology essay written by Yoko Watanabe for a class assignment at Tri-State High School at Tule Lake incarceration camp. Covers racial issues and democracy. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1919
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Letter to Frances Haglund from James Watanabe (ddr-densho-275-37)
A letter about the medical facilities in the concentration camps.
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Masao Watanabe Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-103-26)
Description of weaponry
At the time this interview was taped, Mr. Watanabe was recovering from a recent series of cancer treatments.
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Masao Watanabe Segment 42 (ddr-densho-1000-103-42)
Returning to Seattle
At the time this interview was taped, Mr. Watanabe was recovering from a recent series of cancer treatments.
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Masao Watanabe Segment 49 (ddr-densho-1000-103-49)
Thoughts on redress
At the time this interview was taped, Mr. Watanabe was recovering from a recent series of cancer treatments.
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Boy Scout camping trip (ddr-densho-15-11)
Boy Scout Troop 55, sponsored by Seattle's Japanese Methodist Church, on a camping trip. Left to right: Bill Yorozu, Masayoshi Uchimura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Hiroshi Kanazawa, and Norio Mitsuoka.
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An Oral History with Ikuko Amatatsu Watanabe (ddr-csujad-29-12)
Nisei district manager of an educational corporation discusses samurai ancestry; childhood on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and makeup of Bainbridge Japanese community; incarceration at the Manzanar camp, California, including circumstances as to why Bainbridge Islanders were transferred to the Minidoka camp in Idaho; wartime resettlement to Chicago; and postwar years in California, with particular attention to discriminatory …
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Masao Watanabe Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-103-16)
Mother's illness in camp
At the time this interview was taped, Mr. Watanabe was recovering from a recent series of cancer treatments.
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Masao Watanabe Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-103-1)
Born in Seattle, Washington
At the time this interview was taped, Mr. Watanabe was recovering from a recent series of cancer treatments.
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Redress: lawsuits filed by children of voluntary evacuees (ddr-csujad-55-2104)
Newspaper clipping published in Rafu shimpo regarding the court cases of Sharon Tanihara and Grace Watanabe. Tanihara and Watanabe are seeking restitution payments as the children of "voluntary evacuees," born outside of an incarceration camp, during World War II. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2207
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Family portrait (ddr-densho-62-5)
Family in the Earle Apartments in Seattle. Edith Watanabe's father Kichiro, mother Kita Takagi, holding Edith; L to R: brother Harry, sister Michiko, sister Miyoko.
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A trial defendant with his lawyer and another man (ddr-njpa-4-1517)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "'Parachute that did not open' trial. November 21, 1937. When a test to establish the minimum dive world record was conducted with a Nonaka-style parachute, Seizo Higo (18 at the time) died because the parachute did not open. This incident has become known as 'the parachute that did not open,' and the …