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This subseries contains Charles Chomette correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Most of the letters are from individuals who want to know more about Esperanto, but others are from pen-pals and acquaintances from all over the world.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Haiku circles and 小池晩人 Koike Banjin (小池恭 Koike Kyo) correspondence series comprises of collections of haiku poems by haiku circles, “Minidoka Ginsha” “Tule Lake Ginsha” and “Rainier Ginsha,” and a collection of letters from one of the haiku editors, 小池恭 Koike Kyo. Included are manuscripts of haiku poems and monthly bulletins of haiku poems authored by the haiku circle members incarcerated in the Minidoka and Tule Lake camps during the war. Kiyoshi Uekawa wrote haiku poems under the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Included are items and pages from a scrapbook compiled by Kiyoshi Uyekawa while incarcerated at the Tule Lake camp. He collected clippings from "Information bulletin," "Tulean dispatch," "Daily Tulean dispatch," and "Tulean dispatch daily" and other materials issued in the camp. There are also other clippings, such as pages from “The Rocky shinpo New Year's edition, vol. 2, no. 1” and an article "Home affairs: how to tell your friends from the Japs” from “Time magazine,” page 33 published on...

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Consists of two volumes. A chronicle of rumors and false information which were spread among the Japanese American community as well as the government propagandas which misled the society during the war. Vol. 1: May 17, 1944-May 31, 1945; vol. 2: June 1, 1945-November 30, 1945.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains published items mainly by Gardena Buddhist Church and Buddhist Church of America, including anniversary books for the Gardena Buddhist Church and its affiliated Japanese language school, and a clipping (portrait) from a magazine, an issue of a bulletin, brochure, handbook, and books published by Buddhist Church of America. There are also two autobiography books by George Naohara's friends, George Susumu Ota and Ted T. Miyamoto, documenting their experiences...

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Material is a directory of the Tule Lake camp incarcerees who are originally from Niho, Hiroshima, Japan. It lists their Japanese addresses and barracks addresses in the Tule Lake camp.

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Material is a directory of the Tule Lake incarcrees who are from Hiroshima, Japan. It lists their Japanese addresses, U.S. addresses prior to the mass removal, and barracks addresses in the Tule Lake camp.

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The Nanka Fukushima Kenjinkai Collection contains materials depicting activities of the members of Nanka Fukushima Kenjinkai. Materials included are photographs from 1908-2010, membership directories, Rafu Shimpo newspaper articles by Hiroko Aihara, a DVD of a Japanese television program about Fukushima immigrants and Okei, the first Japanese woman to immigrate to the United States, a book by Yasuji Sato, entitled “加州と福島縣人” [= California and the immigrants from Fukushima].

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of publications by prefectural associations, that is, "県人会 kenjinkais," and Japanese Prefectural Association of Southern California, "南加県人会協議会 Nanka Kenjinkai Kyogikai." These organizations have compiled commemorative publications to celebrate their major anniversary milestones, and those publications are not widely known about but distributed among the members only. Anniversary booklets document an overview of the community's history, historical images, and...

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An event program for a Japanese traditional music recital held at City of Gardena Recreation Hall on February 26, 1967.