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Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Yasui Brothers business records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2949
Abstract The Yasui Brothers business records document the Yasui family’s business, personal, and community-related activities in Hood River, Oregon, from the start of the 20th century until World War II. The collection is composed primarily of correspondence, business operation records, and financial files from the Yasui Bros. Co. general stores that Masuo Yasui and his brother Renichi Fujimoto operated from 1908 to 1942, as well as their orchards and farms in the Hood River Valley, and the various...
Dates: 1904-1990; Majority of material found within 1908-1942

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

Yasui test record

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2949Test
Abstract

Records of the Yasui Brothers Company store in Hood River, their farms and orchards at Willow Flat and Mosier, Oregon, and other businesses run by Masuo and Renichi Yasui from approximately 1908 until World War II incarceration. Also includes a small amount of family and personal records.

Dates: 1901-1987