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Akamine and Fuchita Family Papers

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Identifier: SPC-2018-045
Abstract

This collection includes letters, certificates, photographs, scrapbooks, high school yearbooks, oral history interviews, and other material related to the Akamine, Fuchita, and Yasumura families. Subjects in the collection include the Manzanar and Rowher incarceration camps, Koyasan Buddhist Temple, Buddhism, World War II, and other topics. Most of this collection is digitized and available online.

Dates: circa 1880-December 20, 1996

Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman Papers

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Identifier: SPC-2023-010
Abstract This collection documents World War II experiences of Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman, who were Kibei Nisei born in the United States but grew up and completed school in Japan, and then returned to the U.S. prior to the war. It chronicles the Chumans’s incarceration from the Santa Anita Assembly Center, through Jerome, Rohwer, Tule Lake camps, and the Santa Fe and Crystal City internment camps as well as their struggle for restoring their U.S. citizenships in the 1960s. The collection...
Dates: 1913-1991; undated

Collage Ensemble Inc. Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2020-021
Abstract This collection contains material regarding Collage Ensemble Inc., a multicultural Los Angeles area art collective. A majority of the collection contains photographs, flyers, moving images, audio files, press releases, clippings, programs, grant applications, proposals, and show notes regarding various Collage Ensemble Inc. performances, projects, and shows. Also included are financial records, memorandums, by-laws, meeting minutes, t-shirts, artwork, clippings and flyers related to Los...
Dates: 1919-2015; undated; Majority of material found within 1983-2002

Hiroshi Fukuwa Manzanar Diary

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Identifier: SPC-2019-034
Abstract

This collection consists of a diary written by Hiroshi Fukuwa, Kibei Nisei of Los Angeles, California, along with newsletters, clippings, and handwritten notes created/collected in the incarceration camps during World War II. The diary details his incarceration experiences in the Manzanar camp in California, the Gila River camp in Arizona, and the Tule Lake camp in California. All materials in this collection are born-analog objects (digital reproductions).

Dates: 1942-1945

Heart Mountain Sentinel

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Identifier: SPC-2019-041
Abstract

This collection contains newspapers from the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Some of the newspapers have been digitized and are available online.

Dates: January 1 - March 31, 1945

Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters

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Identifier: SPC-2020-034
Abstract The Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters is comprised of 30 letters and postcards, a copy of Hiroji Hosaka's FBI case file, photographs, and business cards. The letters are correspondence between him and his family members and friends mainly while he was imprisoned in the Santa Fe Internment Camp and the Heart Mountain incarceration camp during World War II. The family letters describe the pressing situations that the family faced such as closing his hotel business and selling their properties in a...
Dates: 1937 October-1962 October 29; Majority of material found within 1942-1945

Atsushi Art Ishida Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2019-031
Abstract The Atsushi Art Ishida Collection is comprised of about 900 photographs (prints, negatives, and digital reproductions) and other materials chronicling his time immediately after/during his incarceration in the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California, the Jerome incarceration camp in Arkansas, the Tule Lake Segregation Center in California, and the Minidoka incarceration camp in Idaho, and also depicting his time in pre-war Japan and during the Korean War. Most of the items in this...
Dates: circa 1930-1959; 1995

Japanese American Community Publications

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Identifier: SPC-2023-014
Abstract This collection consists of booklets and newsletters published by Japanese American community-based organizations in Southern California, including Japanese cultural institutes, Japanese women’s society, religious organizations, Aikido Center of Los Angeles and United States Aikido Federation, Japanese American Republicans, Radio Little Tokyo, Southern California Gardeners' Federation, INC., and National Bonsai Foundation. These organizations have published newsletters and compiled...
Dates: 1960-2014

Japanese American History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-035
Abstract

This collection contains books, pamphlets, flyers, photographs, booklets, correspondence, periodicals, and oversized material related to Japanese Americans. Subjects in the collection include incarceration camps, Southbay local history, World War II propaganda, Japanese American families, incarceration camp pilgrimages, and other topics.

Dates: circa 1900-2014

Kaji Family Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2023-016
Abstract The Kaji Family Collection (1890-2017) contains materials related to the life and family of Bruce Teruo Kaji (1926-2017) as well as his wife, Frances Midori Kaji (1928-2016). Topics include Bruce's incarceation at Manzanar including records of camp and Manzanar High School reunions, his time in the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during WWII, his time as Gardena City Treasurer, his involvement in the establishment of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), his involvement in Little...
Dates: 1890-2017; Majority of material found in 1940s-1960s

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Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 14
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Japanese Americans -- California 8
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 5
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Gardena (Calif.) 3
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Japanese American soldiers 3
Korean War, 1950-1953 3
Los Angeles (Calif.) 3
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Japanese American Farmers 2
Japanese American evacuation and resettlement 2
Japanese American poetry 2
Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century 2
Japanese Americans -- California 2
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Manzanar War Relocation Center 2
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 2
Terminal Island (Calif.) 2
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Amache (Colo.) 1
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Buddhist youth 1
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Central Utah Relocation Center 1
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Correspondence 1
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Family-owned business enterprises 1
Gardens, Japanese--California, Southern 1
Gila River Relocation Center 1
Haiku 1
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Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) 1
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Japan -- History -- 20th century 1
Japanese American art 1
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Japanese American photographers 1
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Japanese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- 1940-1950 1
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Lawndale (Calif.) 1
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
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Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950 1
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Newell (Calif.) 1
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Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.) 1
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Poston (Ariz.) 1
Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.) 1
Reparations for historical injustices -- United States 1
Sanām Lūang (Bangkok, Thailand) 1
Senryu 1
Theological students 1
Torrance (Calif.) 1
Tulare Lake (Calif.) 1
Tule Lake Relocation Center (Calif.)--1940-1950 1
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Yokohama-shi (Japan) 1
artists' collectives 1
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Poston Incarceration Camp 7
Tule Lake Segregation Center 6
Gila River Incarceration Camp 5
Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp 5
Jerome Incarceration Camp 4
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Manzanar Incarceration Camp 4
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) 4
Military Intelligence Service Language School (U.S.) 2
Minidoka Incarceration Camp 2
Nanka Fukushima Kenjinkai. 南加福島県人会 2
Takano, Itsuhei, 1887-1967 2
Tule Lake Incarceration Camp 2
Collage Ensemble Inc. 1
Collins, Wayne M. 1
Fukuhara, Jimmy 1
Fukuwa, Dianne Michiko 1
Fukuwa, Hiroshi, 1914-2013 1
Granada (Amache) Incarceration Camp 1
Ishibashi, Akira 1
Ishida, Atsushi Art, 1921- 1
Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Kaji, Bruce (May 9, 1926-October 27, 2017) 1
Kaji, Frances (April 30, 1928-November 26, 2016) 1
Kawabe, Kenji, 1886-1973 1
Kokusai Jōhōsha 1
Koyama, Shinkichi 1
Kuwahara, June Ikuko, 1930- 1
Kuwahara, Tatsuya, 1925- 1
Kuwahara, Terry 1
Maeda, Satoru, 1922-2017 1
Meguro, Kumaji, 1878-1957 1
Meguro, Leo Ryoichi 1
Meguro, Ruth Yoshiko 1
Meguro, Tsuruno, 1894-1985 1
Nakagawa, Alan 1
Nakano , George 1
Nakano, Kiyomi, 1910- 1
Nanka Hiroshima Kenjinkai 1
Nanka Mie Kenjinkai 1
Nanka Wakayama Kenjinkai 1
Naohara, George, 1919-2014 1
Naohara, Mitzi, 1923-2021 1
Ninomiya Family 1
Ninomiya, Elwin 1
Ninomiya, Kinso 1
Ogo, Hideo 1
Ogo, Mohei 1
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 1
Sato, Dale Ann 1
Takano, Fumio F. (Fumio Fred), 1914-1989 1
Takano, Jeanne 1
Takano, Tomeyo, 1889-1979 1
Takano, Yoneko, 1918-2007 1
Toshima, Paul Junji , 1930-2010 1
Uyekawa, Gary 1
Uyekawa, Kiyoshi 1
Uyekawa, Mitsuye Ogo 1
Wada, Joe, 1930-2013 1
Wada, Kan, 1889-1974 1
Wada, Marion 1
Wada, Tomoji, 1882-1964 1
Yoshimura, Eileen 1
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