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doc The Last Samurai Kentsu Yabu (ddr-ohs-1-67)

Genealogy document of Kentsu Yabu (1866-1937), an Okinawan military officer, martial arts master, and immigrant to the United States in approximately 1919.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ohs-1-67/

doc Memo to N. CA Redress Area Coordinators from Clifford Uyeda (ddr-chijacl-1-176)

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img 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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img "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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img "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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-141/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 109, No. 8 (September 22, 1989) (ddr-pc-61-33)

Selected article titles: "JACL-LEC Members Add Support to Inouye's Redress Entitlement" (p. 1), "S.F.'s JA Library Granted $5,000 from NCJAR" (p. 1), "Chronicles the Yasui Family: Lise Yasui's 'Family Gathering' Airing Oct. 17" (pp. 3, 6), and "Japanese Press Translation: America's Three Victories in World War Two" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-61-33/

img Group outing at Mt. Rainier (ddr-densho-136-22)

The Young People's Club, or Seinenkai, brought together people in their twenties from North Seattle for social, cultural, and recreational activities, such as this one to Mt. Rainier. (L to R): Kiyoshi Tada, Alice Funai, Tak Nakawatase, Lily Yasui, Ko Abe, Mich Shimomura, Tadashi Kumagai, Stamy Kumagai, Hiroshi Yahagi, Kaz Tada.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-136-22/

img Issei Yale Law graduate in cap and gown (ddr-densho-259-430)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Young Japanese man in a cap and gown. Although I don't know who the man was on the photograph it says 'Yale Law -- '11' He had to have been an Issei, and to have graduated from such a prestigious school then, indicated a very talented young man."

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img Japanese family on a ship to America (ddr-densho-259-122)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Picture of [Renichi Fujimoto] and [Matsuyo Fujimoto] and another Japanese man, standing on the deck of a ship. Since Obasan is wearing a kimono, this must have been taken when she left for American with [Renichi, her husband]. They arrived in Seattle on March 10, 1931."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-122/

vh Yosh Kuromiya Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-122-8-2)

Memories of meeting Minoru Yasui to discuss decision to resist the draft

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, …

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img Christmas pageant at Japanese Community Hall (ddr-densho-259-179)

Caption in Japanese at top of photograph: "Iwa Kurisumasu [Christmas celebration]." Caption by Homer Yasui: "A Christmas pageant which was performed by the Nisei members of the Hood River Japanese Methodist Church The girl second left looks like Mika Asai to mel and it might have been Jessie Iwatsuki holding the star on the stick. I …

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