Search Results | Densho Digital Repository

doc Japanese Evacuees (ddr-densho-462-8)

Notes for sermon 'The Christian Church behind barbed wire'. Notes reference Min Yasui's poem, testimony by Martha Higashita

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-462-8/

doc Jap Held in Curfew Case (April 23, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-766)

The Seattle Daily Times, April 23, 1942, p. 5

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-766/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 103, No. 25 (December 19-26, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-50)

Special holiday issue organized into sections A 1-32, B 1-64, and A 33-64. Selected article titles: "As Others See Us: An Overview" (pp. A-4, A-13, A-20), "The Dilemma of the 'Model Minority' Image" (p. A-14), "Minoru Yasui, 1916-1986: In Remembrance" (pp. B-1-B-2), "The Nisei of the 1800 Engineer General Service Battalion: An Untold Story" (pp. B-39-B-40, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-58-50/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 103, No. 23 (December 5, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-48)

Selected article titles: "New Series a Unique Chance for JA Actors" (pp. 1-2), "Immigration Bill: Attorneys Try to Decode New Technicalities" (pp. 1-2), "By the Board: Budgetary Realities" (p. 4), and "Newspapers Comment on Redress Issue" (p. 10).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-58-48/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 105, No. 2 (July 10-17, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-27)

Selected article titles: "Houston Judge Rejects Claim of Discrimination" (pp. 1-2), "Bork's Nomination Seen as Threat to Class Action Suit" (p. 1), "Yasui Family Requests Court to Review Coram Nobis Case" (p. 1), and "Survey Underway: How Charitable Are Asian Americans?" (pp. 3, 7).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-27/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 14 (April 10, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-14)

Edition contains a 4 page travel section between pages 6 and 7. Selected article titles: "Yasui's Petition Dismissed; High Court Review Sought" (p. 1), "State Bill Proposed to Fund Film about JA Internment" (pp. 1, 3), "Ex-Internee Chronicles WW2 Experience" (p. 8), and "Supported by 'English First': English-Language Law Debated in New York" (p. 12).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-14/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 2 (January 16, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-2)

Selected article titles: "Broadcaster's Remarks Add to Black-Asian Tensions in Pa." (pp. 1-2), "Family, Attorneys to Continue Yasui Appeal" (pp. 1, 8), "Third Try: Redress Bill Is Introduced in 100th Congress" (p. 1), and "Arizona, Florida Next?: Proposition 63 Forces Plan Campaigns in Other States" (pp. 1, 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-2/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 105, No. 15 (November 6, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-40)

Selected article titles: "Diaries Returned: Wartime Distrust Followed Soldiers Across the Pacific" (p. 1), "Market Crash Halts Vote on S.1009" (p. 1), "Hearing on Anti-Asian Violence Set" (pp. 1, 5), and "Editorial of the Pacific Citizen: Gone But Not Forgotten" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-40/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 105, No. 11 (October 9, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-36)

Selected article titles: "Nikkei Crowd Jams Smithsonian Exhibit" (pp. 1, 6), "JACL Says Redress Now, Bork Later" (pp. 1, 8), "Yasui Coram Nobis Update" (pp. 3, 8), and "'Asian Americans and the Death of the Constitution'" (pp. 5-6).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-36/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2027 (January 26, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-3)

Selected article titles: "I. Magnin, Joseph Magnin Urging Kenzo Label Change" (p. 1), "Yankee Samurai: Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory" (pp. 1, 9-12), "Japan's Pearl Harbor Spy Saw Evacuation as 'Cruel Joke'" (p. 2), and "Min Yasui Letters: From the Multnomah Jail" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-51-3/

img Women pose on piano bench (ddr-densho-379-476)

Yuri Endo (right) and her long-time friend. Written on the page in the photograph album "Cheryl's Birthday Party 1948". It was Cheryl's second birthday party.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-476/

img Issei minister and family (ddr-densho-259-151)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Reverend Seijiro and Mrs. Hana Uyemura [Uemura], with their first 3 children: Lillian, Margaret & Frances, Rev. Uemura was a well known Issei Methodist minister who knew our family well."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-151/

img Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church of Portland (ddr-densho-259-307)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Posed group of members of the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church of Portland. This old church was actually a remodeled home and it was located near 16th Avenue and Glisan Street."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-307/

img Exterior of the first Yasui Bro's store on Third Street between State and Oak (ddr-densho-259-660)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-660/

img Issei newspaper editor in his office (ddr-densho-259-235)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Toyoji Abe This might have been Abe's office from which he ran the Japanese newspaper, the Oshu Shimpo. Abe was a highly influential man in the Portland and the Oregon Japanese communities."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-235/

img Issei men with team of horses on farm (ddr-densho-259-357)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Issei man standing next to a team of horses, an Issei driver and a man standing on the driver's side of a truck loaded with boxes Those boxes look like strawberry crates."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-357/

img Nikkei wearing a suit and boots (ddr-densho-259-403)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Young Japanese man dressed in a suit & tie, but wearing lace-up, knee-high boots, which seems to be an incongruous combination The building just behind him was the Japanese Methodist Mission."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-403/

img Japanese men at Diet Building in Tokyo (ddr-densho-259-313)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese man and two Japanese students standing in front of a stone building. This is Saburo Miyake and his two boys, Shiro and Goro. The building is the Diet Building in Tokyo."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-313/

img Portrait of a Nisei boy (ddr-densho-259-259)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Young Nisei boy wearing a necktie and a pullover sweater. This was 'George' Yutaka Iwasa, the only child of Inosuke and Haruye Iwasa. They lived in the Belmont district of Hood River."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-259/

img Card from Japanese couple (ddr-densho-259-228)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is a reproduced photograph on a card, of Mr. and Mrs. T. Kawabe. At the top of this card is a handwritten notation that says, To Mr. and Mrs. Yasui. Underneath that, there is a caption that says 'In Gratful (sic) Memory of Our Visit to America[']...I strongly suspect that this …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-228/

img Issei man in graduation cap and gown (ddr-densho-259-500)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of Senichi Tomihiro in cap and gown. This may corroborate Chiye Tomihiro's statement that her father had graduated from a law school in the U.S." Signature on photograph: "Sincerely yours, S. Tomihiro."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-500/

img Seven Issei men in suits (ddr-densho-259-196)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "A group of Hood River Issei, from left to right: Kozo Karasawa, Yoshitomo Kyono, Ikutaro Takagi, Kamematsu Norimatsu and [Renichi Fujimoto]. I can't identify the two men who are crouching in the front."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-196/

img Wedding party (ddr-densho-259-511)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Wedding party of Jane Kyono and Tokutaro Ted Mori, who was an Issei born in Shiga ken in 1903. This picture was taken in front of the same Buddhist Church where so many other group pictures of Nikkei were taken in Portland."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-511/

Collection Steven Okazaki Collection (ddr-densho-1012)

The Steven Okazaki Collection consists of interviews conducted by filmmaker Steven Okazaki for his 1984 Oscar-nominated documentary, Unfinished Business. The film profiles Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui and their legal fight to have their World War II convictions overturned. The interviews are audio-only, and are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1012/

img Issei men at a funeral (ddr-densho-259-340)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group of 50 or more well dressed Issei men, many of whom appear to be wearing black armbands, so this may have been a post-funeral scene. This gathering may have been to mourn the death of the Emperor Meiji."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-340/

Filters