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564 items
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-132-5)
Childhood games: kite-flying, "jintori"
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-132-23)
Arrival at Poston concentration camp: registering, filling own mattress with straw
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-132-28)
Vague memories of internal unrest at Poston
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-132-20)
Feeling self-conscious after the bombing of Pearl Harbor; hearing racist propaganda, rumors
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-132-15)
Feeling a lack of academic motivation; not many professional role models within the Japanese American community
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-132-36)
Getting married, moving to Berkeley, California
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-132-38)
Teaching at the Washington School in Berkeley; one of the first Japanese American instructors to teach there
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-132-31)
Answering "yes-yes" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-132-24)
Life in Poston concentration camp: observing Nisei in a variety of professions
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-132-9)
As a child, sharing a room with grandmother: listening to traditional Japanese music played on a shamisen
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-132-3)
Mother's background: Christian upbringing, training in Western music
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1000-132-35)
Playing swing music in a dance band at Fort Snelling, Minnesota
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-132-34)
Training at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 47 (ddr-densho-1000-132-47)
Learning the drums and playing in bands
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-132-16)
Adolescent years: first experiences learning about human sexuality
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 46 (ddr-densho-1000-132-46)
Impressed with music education in Japan; difficulties of everyday life
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George Yoshida Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-132-17)
Limited opportunities after graduating from high school: "The future seemed gray, bleak"
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 39 No. 16 (October 15, 1954) (ddr-pc-26-42)
Selected article titles: "Urge naturalization service push Issei peitions for Nov. 11 rites" (p. 1), "General amnesty for Japanese war criminals by Eisenhower urged when Yoshida arrives for visit" (p. 1), "Japanese warbride was too 'Japanese' for singing role in Mme. Butterfly" (p. 5).
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Three women in costumes (ddr-ajah-4-54)
Caption below photo: Kiyo Date (left), as Elmino, Etsu Yoshida, as Adaliza, and Shinayo Kikuchi sing in "An Old Kentucky Garden", a stageplay at the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Alameda, CA. The show was directed by Ruby Yoshino and Alber Torio. March 1937
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Bessie Yoshida Konishi Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-212-18)
Raising children and grandchildren
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Bessie Yoshida Konishi Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-212-10)
Memories of atmosphere following the bombing of Pearl Harbor: father sponsored people from the West Coast moving to Colorado