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1252 items
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Chisao Hata Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-532-4)
Early life in Des Moines, Iowa, being called a racial slur as a child
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Chisao Hata Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-532-6)
Hearing very little about the World War II incarceration growing up
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Chisao Hata Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-532-14)
Returning to Japanese American community activities
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Chisao Hata Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-532-11)
Organizing the first Day of Remembrance in Portland, Oregon
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Chisao Hata Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-532-8)
Complicated relationships in early adulthood, getting married
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Chisao Hata Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-532-5)
Struggling with Japanese American identity in high school
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Chisao Hata Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-532-16)
Position as Creative Director for the Japanese American Museum of Oregon
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Chisao Hata Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-532-9)
Moving to Eugene, Oregon, and getting involved in Asian American activist groups
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Chisao Hata Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-532-18)
Japanese American identity and activist work
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Portrait of Caucasian pastor and his family (ddr-densho-259-389)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of a Caucasian family On the back of the picture, it says that 'This photo has [sic] presented from Mrs. N Evans Rev. Evans was a pastor of the Methodist Church, and he has apointed [sic] as the pastor of Pendel Aug. 1901.'"
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"Shinbo's Restaurant" (ddr-densho-259-347)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "'Shinbo's Restaurant', Walla Walla, Washington. That may not have been the real name of the restaurant This was a pretty nice restaurant for its days, which was around 1938 when we visited them. There are six Caucasian waitresses, so that was a pretty sizeable operation."
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"Hood River Nikkei community" (ddr-densho-259-141)
Hood River Nikkei community. Caption by Homer Yasui: " [This picture] was surely taken on the side of the little hill which was slightly to the east and north of the [Hood River] Japanese Community Hall The Hall was built around then, so this may have been a commemorative portrait."
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Tenchosetsu celebration (ddr-densho-259-444)
Gathering of Issei for the celebration of Tenchosetsu, a day to pray for the long life of the emperor and a celebration of Emperor Taisho's birthday.
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Makoto Otsu Interview (ddr-densho-1000-497)
Nisei male. Born March 26, 1926, in Steveston, British Columbia, Canada. Grew up in Steveston, where father fished for a cannery. During World War II, the family was forced to leave Steveston and moved to the abandoned Minto Mine site in the Bridge River Valley of British Columbia. After staying for a few years, Makoto moved …
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Susumu Nakanishi Interview (ddr-densho-1000-496)
Shin-Issei male. Born September 10, 1926, in Hyogo, Japan. Grew up in Japan, where parents farmed. During World War II, exempted from the draft due to higher education status. Attended Doshisha University in Kyoto, learning English from an influential missionary. Moved to the United States and attended Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, then studied at the University …
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Toshiko Hayashi Interview (ddr-densho-1000-492)
Nisei female. Born April 14, 1925, in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Beaverton, Oregon, where parents farmed and sold produce at a nearby market. During World War II, family moved to Ontario, Oregon, to avoid mass removal, and worked for a white farmer. Toshiko attended Boise State University in Idaho and then moved to Seattle after …