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The collection consists of a broadside detailing the provisions of Civilian Exclusion Order No. 46 issued by General J. L. Dewitt on May 6, 1942. The order directs all persons of Japanese ancestry in Clackamas and eastern Multnomah counties to be evacuated to Civil Control Stations for forced incarceration during World War II.

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Collection includes broadside exclusion orders, Nos. 18-98, 1942, ordering all persons of Japanese ancestry to evacuate, and broadside "Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry," April 24-May 27, 1942.

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Oral history interview with Nadyne Yoneko Dozono conducted by Clark Hansen from January 23 to February 5, 1998, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Dozono was a Japanese American born in Portland, Oregon. From 1931 to 1953, she lived in Japan, where she experienced World War II as though she were a Japanese citizen. After the war, she worked with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission.

Abstract Hideo Hashimoto (born 1911) was a Methodist minister and peace activist. During World War II, he was incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Jerome Relocation Center in Denson, Arkansas. After the war, he became a professor of religious studies at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, lectures, speeches, information leaflets, newsletters, articles and testimonies, primarily regarding Hashimoto's work for peace and human rights. Also included are...

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Oral history interview with George Iwasaki conducted by Etsu Osaki from August 19 to September 16, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Iwasaki was a Japanese American farmer and was incarcerated with his family during World War II.

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Correspondence between Bernard B. Kliks (1915-2001) and Minoru Yasui (1916-1986), clippings about Yasui compiled by Kliks, and Kliks' correspondence regarding reunions of the University of Oregon Law School class of 1939. Kliks was an attorney in Portland, Oregon; he and Yasui attended the University of Oregon Law School together. Yasui was a Japanese American lawyer who challenged the constitutionality of a curfew placed on Japanese Americans during World War II.

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Collection includes correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera, primarily relating to the Mizuta family's incarceration at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming; clearance for family members to leave the incarceration center to operate a farm; and family members' military service during the war. Family members represented in the collection include Fred Mizuta, George Mizuta, Haruye Izuta, Ito Mizuta, and Nobuo Mizuta.

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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Oral history interview with Masumi Timson conducted by Sankar Raman and Giacomo Ranieri on March 19, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Timson immigrated to the United States from Japan in 1991. She became a professional musician, a koto instructor, and a regular performer with the band with Pink Martini.

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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.