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Wedding portrait (ddr-densho-259-518)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Wedding portrait, presumably, of a young couple in Japan the man is wearing a formal montsuki, as well as the formal pleated trousers--hakama--and is holding the usual folded paper fan The bride, however, isn't wearing the usual horn-of-jealousy-concealing-white headcover--called a tsuno kakushi (literally, a horn hider)...I have no idea who the couple …
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-509-19)
Comparing living in Los Angeles and Seattle
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-509-10)
Returning to the greater Seattle area after leaving camp
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-509-3)
Mother's family background: born in Seattle
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-509-20)
Values for future generations
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-509-21)
Hearing about the World War II Japanese American incarceration
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-509-7)
Growing up one of five children
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-509-4)
Parents' meeting and marriage
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-509-2)
Father's family background
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-509-16)
Meeting second husband, involvement in children's schooling
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-509-5)
Description of father: talented musician, passed away at an early age
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-509-6)
Description of mother: "she was amazing"
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-509-15)
Meeting first husband, marrying in Las Vegas
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-509-11)
Father's passing after the war
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-509-12)
Enjoying school, participating in community events
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-509-9)
Childhood memories of Minidoka
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-509-18)
The "model minority myth" and Japanese American identity
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-509-14)
Deciding to move to Los Angeles
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-509-13)
Exploring Japanese American identity in high school
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-509-8)
Only an infant when World War II broke out
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The staff of the Minidoka Irrigator (ddr-densho-10-4)
People of various ages worked on the Minidoka Irrigator, the newspaper of the Minidoka concentration camp. Issei were in charge of writing the Japanese section of the newspaper, for those who did not understand English. The Nisei concentrated on stories in English. Front (left to right): Kimi Tambara, Cherry Tanaka, and Mitsu Yasuda. Middle: Miyuki Inouye …
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Mary Okazaki Kozu Interview (ddr-densho-1000-511)
Nisei female. Born June 14, 1931, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle, where parents ran a boarding house. During World War II, removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Left camp in 1943 and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Returned with family to Seattle after the war, attended the …
![Members of SYNKOA in front of the Japanese Students Club clubhouse (ddr-densho-45-2)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/9a/b4/9ab488128b92360dee068c4f64812080.jpg)
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Members of SYNKOA in front of the Japanese Students Club clubhouse (ddr-densho-45-2)
After World War II, the Japanese Students Club became known as SYNKOA to honor members who had died during the war. The first letters of the following members' last names make up the acronym: George T. Sawada, Frank M. Shigemura, George Yamaguchi, Hideo H. Yasui, Shigeo Yoshioka, William K. Nakamura, Ben Ninomiya, Jiro Kanetomi, Yoshio Kato, …