Letter from B. Y. Read, Colonel, AGD, Adjutant General, Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command, to Kiyoshi Uyekawa, September 4, 1945
Creator
Read, B. Y.: author United States. Army. Western Defense Command
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A letter from Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command, to Kiyoshi Uyekawa incarcerated at the Tule Lake camp, California. It notifies him of Public Proclamation no. 24 and the rescission of exclusion. 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.
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Segregation and Tule Lake World War II--Administration--Western Defense Command World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion orders Identity and values--Kibei
Place
Presidio of San Francisco, California Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
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