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Ayame Tsutakawa Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-95)
Kibei female. Born May 23, 1924, in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California. Sent to Japan to live with a relative when thirteen months old. Returned to United States and mother when twelve years old. Incarcerated at Sacramento Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, both in California. Resettled in Sacramento, California. Married George Tsutakawa, …
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Muriel Chiyo Tanaka Onishi Interview (ddr-densho-1000-243)
Nisei female. Born March 6, 1921, in Hilo, Hawaii. Grew up in Hilo, where parents were Japanese language school teachers. In 1939, moved to Japan to obtain medical treatment, and attended school there. During World War II, was conscripted into the Japanese military and worked as an interpreter, translating U.S. radio transmissions for General Headquarters in …
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Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview (ddr-densho-1000-509)
Nisei-Sansei female. Born May 9, 1941, in Seattle Washington. An infant when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, family was sent to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, family returned to Seattle, where Dotti attended school. After high school, moved to Southern California, raised a family, and became a teacher …
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Ayame Tsutakawa Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-94)
Kibei female. Born May 23, 1924, in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California. Sent to Japan to live with a relative when thirteen months old. Returned to United States and mother when twelve years old. Incarcerated at Sacramento Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, both in California. Resettled in Sacramento, California. Married George Tsutakawa, …
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May Ohmura Watanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1000-454)
Nisei female. Born May 13, 1922, in Chico, California. Grew up in Chico, where parents ran a produce store. Was in college when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and was removed with her family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend school in Syracuse, New York, and become a public health nurse. Later …
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Portrait of Ozeki and Nakayama families (ddr-ajah-6-804)
Caption below photo: Studio portrait of the Ozeki, Nakayama families and perhaps a friend. The Ozeki and Nakayamas were close. The unknown man was a friend of the Ozekis as he appears in their photo albums several times. The three children would soon be sent back (in 1912) to Japan for their education, thus dating this …
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Interview with Sho Nomura, part 1 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1610)
Nomura discusses growing up in California, selling the family business and evacuation, and his thoughts on war with Japan. Video starts at 0:27. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: 93, II LA #40, 7-25-85, Sho Nomura Interview I. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1611/
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Postcard to Kaneji Domoto in Japanese (ddr-densho-329-934)
Postcard addressed to Kaneji, message and signature in Japanese. Front of card has an image of a warrior on a horse crossing a body of water, captioned in English "AKECHI SAMONOSUKE, FORDING THE LAKE BIWA (1582 A.D.)" Back of card has a logo for "TOYO KISEN KAISHA / ORIENTAL S.S. CO" and reads at bottom "Printed …
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Two Issei in front of barracks (ddr-densho-37-327)
Original WRA caption: Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Joseph Gerald Osamu Sakamoto, 80, and Mary Ann Tsuchi Sakamoto, 80, on their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Sakamoto came to the United States from Japan in 1894. He was the first Japanese second-hand furniture store proprietor, first Japanese express man and one of the first vegetable …
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Japanese American playing a board game (ddr-densho-37-428)
Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. An early immigrant from Japan, now residing at Heart Mountain, after evacuation from West Coast areas, reaches for a pawn in a game of Shogi, similar in characters and playing to chess. Although previously mumbling in Japanese, startled by the camera flas, the old gent let …
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Letter to Yuri Tsukada from Wak Domoto (ddr-densho-356-593)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from her sister Wakako Domoto. Wak writes about her poor living situation and plans to move, a possible to visit Japan and hopefully meet their sister Kayeko Nakashima and family who live there, details about a man she has been seeing, and her thoughts and desire to keep all this secret …
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Red Cross Telegram (ddr-densho-430-52)
Telegram sent through the Red Cross from Tsuneji Arai to Kichio Arai. Form is in French, filled out in English, with a message in Japanese. The messages informs of the sender's mother's death, inquires about everyone's safety in the US, and says everyone in Japan is alright. Send date is September 21, 1943; the received date …
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Marian Asao Kurosu Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-118-22)
Husband had no intention of returning to Japan to live
During this interview, Mrs. Kurosu alternately speaks in both English and Japanese. As a result, the English translation of the transcript contains [Jpn.] and [Eng.], which indicate whether the original dialogue was spoken in Japanese or English.
Narrator Kay Sweeney
Japanese female. Born 1922 in Kagoshima, Japan. During World War II, served as a nurse with the Japanese army in Jakarta and Japan. After the war, moved to the United States and lived in San Francisco before eventually settling in Portland, Oregon.
Narrator Takashi Matsui
Kibei male. Born January 20, 1917, in Hood River, Oregon. Lived in Seattle, Washington, before being taken to Japan by mother at the age of three. Completed elementary through high school in Japan. Returned to Seattle at seventeen years of age. Continued education in United States. Drafted in 1942 and was an instructor for the Military …
Narrator Toyoko Okumura
Nisei female. Born October 14, 1916, in Gardena, California. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. In response to the so-called "loyalty questionnaire," transferred to Tule Lake segregation center with family, and expatriated to Japan. Worked in Japan for the U.S. government and …
Narrator Frank Fukuhara
Kibei male. Born August 25, 1924. As a child, sent to live in Japan after father's passing. Attended school in Japan and was drafted into the Japanese military. During the U.S. occupation, was reunited with brother who had been serving with the Military Intelligence Service.
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U.S. Firm on Japanese Ban. Answer on Exclusion is Made Public. Washington Regards Incident as Closed by Hughes' Note Denying Violation of Treaties With Japan. (June 19, 1924) (ddr-densho-56-389)
The Seattle Daily Times, June 19, 1924, pp. 1, 13, 14
Narrator Marion Tsutakawa Kanemoto
Nisei female. Born December 30, 1927, in Seattle, Washington. Lived in Japan for fifteen months as a child, before returning to Seattle to attend junior high school. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was picked up by the FBI and taken to the Department of Justice camp at Missoula, Montana. Removed to the Puyallup Assembly …
Narrator Yoneko Dozono
Nisei female. Born February 4, 1915, in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Portland before being sent to be educated in Japan at age sixteen. Married and had children in Japan, working for the military government after World War II. Returned to Portland in the 1950s with family.
Narrator Tom Akashi
Nisei male. Born June 7, 1929, in Merced, California. Grew up in Mount Eden, California, and was removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Incarcerated at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah, then moved to Tule Lake concentration camp after family volunteered to move to Japan. While at Tule Lake, …
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Korekiyo Takahashi and Mineo Osumi (ddr-njpa-4-1822)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Navy Minister Osumi meets with Minister of Finance. Emphasis on establishment of national defense policy. Minister Osumi visited Takahashi, Minister of Finance, at the Ministry of Finance at 2:30 p.m. on the 12th. Minister Osumi explained the plan for a secondary supply and the improvement of weapons. Additionally, he explained in detail …
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Otohiko Matsukata waving at Tokyo Station (ddr-njpa-4-831)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Japan-America goodwill mission representative Otohiko Matsukata arrived in America. To move past the diplomatic crisis of 1935-1936, Foreign Minister Hirota is preparing to mend friendship between Japan and America. As one part of this plan, the ambassador to America and others suggested Hirota send Otohiko Matsukata, who graduated from Harvard University with …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 25 No. 2 (July 19, 1947) (ddr-pc-19-29)
Selected article titles: "House Committee Clears Way For Debate, Vote This Week On Evacuee Claims Proposal" (p. 1), "Senate Passes Amendment to Soldier Brides Act. Will Permit Entry Into U.S. of 'Ineligible Alien' Spouses of American Servicemen" (p. 1), "JACL Committee in Japan Discusses Assistance to Nisei" (p. 1), "Real Estate Operator's Plan For Exclusion of …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 44, No. 15 (April 12, 1957) (ddr-pc-29-15)
Select article titles: "CL renews Hawaii statehood plea: Far East aspect of U.S. foreign policy would be strengthened by admission" (p. 1); Canadian Nisei patato grower protest dumping of U.S. spud surplus in Canada" (p. 1); "100 Million in Japan by '64 May 'Blow off Roof'" (p. 2); "San Jose-Okayama become sister cities" (p. 2); "Jefferson …