Abstract Oral history interview with John Y. Murakami conducted by George Katagiri from July 13-20, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Murakami, the son of Japanese immigrants, was born in Sherwood, Oregon. During World War II, Murakami served in the U.S. Army while his family was incarcerated at the Minidoka War Relocation Center. He was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. After the war, he worked in construction and taught at Benson Polytechnic High School in...

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Hideto Tomita was a Portland, Oregon, Japanese American who was incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Minidoka camp in Idaho and later joined the 442nd regiment of the U.S. Army. Collection consists of Tomita's correspondence with Cora B. Oliver, a former teacher, 1942-1945, regarding his experiences of incarceration, of basic training in Mississippi, and of life at the front in Italy and France.

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Memoir of Frances Toyooka, typed by and with an introduction by her daughter, Janet Thibault. Toyooka, a second-generation Japanese American woman, was living in Troutdale, Oregon, when the United States entered World War II. The memoir primarily concerns her experience being incarcerated by the U.S. government at Minidoka, and then living at the Twin Falls Labor Camp, but also discusses living in Vanport, Oregon, and then northeastern Portland, Oregon, following the war.

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Oral history interview with Jim Tsugawa conducted by Sankar Raman and Elizabeth Mehren on July 19, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Tsugawa was born in Hillsboro, Oregon, in 1932, and was incarcerated at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Jerome County, Idaho, during World War II. He later served in the U.S. Army and became a dentist in Portland, Oregon.