Letter from George Cochran Doub, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division and Enoch E. Ellison, Chief, Japanese Claims Section, to Mr. and Mrs. Kiyoshi Uyekawa, April 24, 1959
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Doub, George Cochran: author Ellison, Enoch E. Ellison: author United States. Department of Justice
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Letters from George Chochran Doub, Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice Civil Division, and Enoch E. Ellison, United States Department of Justice Chief, Japanese Claims Section to Mr. and Mrs. Kiyoshi Uyekawa. They confirmed that their U.S. citizenship was reinstated and enclosed their birth certificates. "市民権" that is, U.S. citizenship is written on the envelope. The Kiyoshi Uyekawa Tule Lake Camp Collection comprises of the wartime publications collected by Kiyoshi Uyekawa while incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp, such as Tule Lake newsletters and bulletins, materials issued by the Pro-Japanese group, Sokoku Hoshidan (or Hoshi Dan), WRA publications, his family's incarceration documents, which include documents regarding his and his wife, Mitsuye‘s repatriation, his fictional works’ manuscripts, bulletins and manuscripts of haiku poems authored by the members of the haiku societies incarcerated in the camps, and letters from Kyo Koide, who was a prominent figure in the community as a photographer, physician, and poet under the pseudonym, Banjin Koide.
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