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Description
Letter to the American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, reporting enclosed three copies of rewritten and corrected statements to support Taneo Akiyama's appeal for the reinstatement of his American Citizenship, along with an explanation for his lack of correspondence over the previous year. Handwritten annotation at bottom of document reads: Received an answer from the Consul on August 22, 1957. The Akiyama’s owned the Florin Fish Store until it was burned down during their WWII incarceration. Their four sons went to Japan for further education as teenagers and one was conscripted into the Imperial military. After December 7, 1941 Mr. Akiyama was detained by the FBI in Crystal City, Texas. Mrs. Akiyama and her three sons were forcefully evacuated to Fresno Assembly Center, Jerome incarceration camp and then to Crystal City to join Mr. Akiyama. In December 1945 the family repatriated to Japan and were reunited in Sacramento after six years in Japan. Part of the Japanese American Archival Collection.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence 1 page, 10.5 x 8 inches; typescript application/pdf
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Renunciation of citizenship Immigration and citizenship--Law and legislation Japan--Post-World War II Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Kibei
Place
Tokyo, Japan
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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