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Japanese Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Kay N. Toyooka

 Collection
Identifier: SR 975
Abstract Oral history interview with Kay N. Toyooka, conducted in Japanese by Yasashi Ichikawa on April 16, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Toyooka discusses his early life in Hiroshima, Japan, his immigration to the United States, and farm life in Oregon in the 1920s and 1930. He speaks about his experiences at the Portland Assembly Center in Portland, Oregon, and the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho as one of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated...
Dates: 1992 April 16

Oral history interview with Jim Tsugawa

 Collection
Identifier: SR12292
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2018 July 19

Tule Lake incarceration center employee handbook and map

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 944
Abstract

An employee handbook for the Tule Lake incarceration center and a map of the center. Tule Lake was a facility in northern California where the U.S. government incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II.

Dates: 1944 September; circa 1944

Tule Lake Pilgrimage, August 26-28, 1994: A Report Prepared for the Background Informations on the Tule Lake Center

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 909
Abstract

Report by Berkeley, California, architect Takasumi Kojima, written in preparation for a pilgrimage to Tule Lake in memory of the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The report provides background information about the Tule Lake incarceration center specifically, as well as about government incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II in general.

Dates: 1994

Oral history interview with Mamaro Wakasugi

 Collection
Identifier: SR 965
Abstract

Oral history interview with Mamaro Wakasugi conducted by George I. Azumano on October 29, 1994, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Wakasugi discusses his family background and early life as a second-generation Japanese American on farms on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and in Banks, Oregon, as well as his experiences farming in Ontario, Oregon, during World War II.

Dates: 1994 October 29

Yabe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 982
Abstract This collection consists of papers of and relating to members of a Japanese American family. The materials date from the early 20th century to 2022, and particularly highlight the experiences of Mitsuye (Jyoko) Yabe (1897-1985), who immigrated to California from Japan around 1917, and her youngest daughter, Miyuki (Yabe) Yasui (1926-2018). Included are Mitsuye Yabe's correspondence (in Japanese), original documents and materials of Yabe family members, Miyuki Yasui's research files and...
Dates: 1900-2022

Yasui family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 949
Abstract This collection includes correspondence, personal papers, and photographs of three generations of the Yasui family. Major topics represented in the collection include the first (Issei) generation’s immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s; the family's business and community activities in Hood River, Oregon, through 1942; the forced removal and incarceration of Yasui family members during World War II; and advocacy for redress and on behalf of Japanese American history by members of the...
Dates: 1873-2023; Majority of material found within 1910-1995

Masuo Yasui letter to Sagoro Asai

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 956
Abstract

Letter from Masuo Yasui (1886-1957) to Sagoro Asai (1880-1969), written in Japanese shortly after Yasui's release from incarceration. Yasui and Asai emigrated from Japan and resided in Hood River, Oregon. Yasui owned a general store, and both operated orchards. The U.S. government accused Yasui of disloyalty after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and incarcerated him from 1941 to 1946.

Dates: 1946 January 18; 2022

Jerry Jiro Yasutome photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 762
Abstract

Photographs depicting the Tule Lake Relocation Center, the 1948 Vanport Flood, and students from the Northwest School of Photography. The photographs were taken and collected by Jerry Jiro Yasutome between 1945 and 1948.

Dates: 1945-1948