Box 1

This series includes alien identification cards and immigration records, 1930 census records, a grant deed and full reconveyance, alien address report cards, birth certificates, wills, death certificates, funeral information, biographies, transcripts of family registers, and genealogies.

Contains a book, "紀伊熊野太地浦捕鯨史" [= History of Kii Kumano Taiji whaling], compiled by Tamaji Azuma; Tomoji Wada's critique and comments on the book; and clippings on Taiji Whaling.

Included are Japanese passports, alien tax receipts, inspection cards, and medical inspection cards. Some materials are written in Japanese.

Aya Wada's birth certificate and documents issued by City of Los Angeles, Department of Health.

Documents written by Tomoj Wada. Includes wills, drafts of his own obituaries, notes, a letter to Shokichi Wada, and a request letter for posthumous Buddhist names. Also includes a postcard from Sachiko Wada to Tomoji Wada.

Includes the family tree scroll (reproduction in Box 4 Folder 1, film slides in Box 2 Folder 26, and Xerox copy in Box 1 Folder 26), Kakocho (a family register book of deaths: Box 3 Folder 3), posthumous Buddhist names (Box 3 Folder 6), and clippings on the Wada Family history (Box 3 Folder 5).

Printouts of passenger manifests and WRA records.

This series contains mainly family correspondence. Many of them are incoming letters from Tomoji and Kan Wada’s relatives in Japan. There is a letter from the U. S. War Department to Tomoji Wada, seeking assistance from him to get Japanese residents registered for enlistment in 1918.

Letters to Kan Wada. Senders include Masayo Hasegawa, Shohachi Wada, Tsune Honda, Kazuo and Yoshie Mori, Yoshio Hasegawa, Sotoshu Temple, Mitsuya Wada, Tsuruye Tashima, Tomoe Hama, and Tomoe Amahata, and Ryohei Kanda, and Takao Seko. Also include unmailed letters from Kan Wada to Masayo Hasegawa and Shohachi Wada.

This series contains mainly family correspondence. Many of them are incoming letters from Tomoji and Kan Wada’s relatives in Japan. There is a letter from the U. S. War Department to Tomoji Wada, seeking assistance from him to get Japanese residents registered for enlistment in 1918.