Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains dinner programs, invitations, photographs, booklets, postcards, clippings, certificates, and a scrapbook related to the Ichikawa City/Gardena sister city program. A majority of the photographs were taken in Ichikawa and include delegate visits, temples, schools, Edo River, the library, city hall, and other landmarks. This series also contains photographs, plaques, memorandums, articles, and other material relating to the Huatabampo Mexico sister city program; as well as...

Scope and Contents This series contains materials documenting the Masukawa family’s immigration and incarceration experiences as well as George Naohara’s incarceration, U.S. Army language school training, and Korean War experiences. Included are albums and scrapbooks compiled by George and Mitzi Naohara, certificates, a passport, receipts, WRA forms, alien registration receipt card, ID cards, correspondence, and permits which were issued to the Masukawa and Naohara family, and a Buddhist altar made by hand...

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This series contains materials regarding the Takano family's background information. Included are an Imperial Japanese Government passport; a marriage license and certificate; birth registration; death certificate; diplomas and certificates; college and school yearbooks; graduation programs; a medical certificate; documents regarding the Takano family’s property; social security documents; wills; diaries; a personal narrative; and funeral and obituary information.

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Materials are mainly published items from the Gila River camp in Arizona during the war including newspapers, booklets, and maps. There is also a booklet from the 50th reunion published in 1995.

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Included are bulletins and newspapers issued in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, “The Tule Lake WRA Center information bulletin; The Newell star = Tsurireki shinpo 鶴嶺湖新報” and “Information bulletin = Kokuji 告示.”

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: this sub-series contains reports, articles, clippings, financial documents, consent forms, interviews, maps, photographs, and other material related to the Japanese American Historical Mapping Project (JAHMP) a California Civil Liberties Public Education Project (CCLPEP) digital mapping research study of San Pedro (Hills) Vegetable Growers Association (SPVGA) families and their community hub on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The objectives of the project were to use oral histories and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Akamine and Fuchita Family Papers (circa 1880-December 20, 1996) contains 2.51 linear feet and 209 mb of letters, certificates, oral histories, yearbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, and other ephemera related to the Akamine, Fuchita, and Yasumura families. The collection mostly focuses on the Fuchita family, who moved from Japan to the United States around 1916. The collection documents their time in Japan, California, the Manzanar incarceration camp, and their lives after camp....

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includes photocopies of photographs; clippings; articles; Nanka Kagoshima Kenjinai 110th Anniversary directory and program; "A brief history of Tottori-Kenjin Doshikai and its members"

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This subseries contains mostly materials from the Nakano family which were collected during their incarceration at the Jerome and Tule Lake camps. There are his elementary school materials collected and created by George Nakano when he was attending a Japanese school in the Tule Lake camp, which reflect wartime Japanese education. There are also two directories from before the Nakano family was incarcerated.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of booklets and newsletters published by Japanese American community-based organizations in Southern California, Hollywood Japanese Cultural Institute, Orange County Japanese American Association, San Fernando Valley Japanese Community Center, Japanese Community Pioneer Center, Japanese Women's Society, Troop 379 Boy Scouts of America Troop, Gardena Buddhist Church and Japanese Language School, Koyasan Los Angeles Mission, Japanese Christian Mission in North America,...