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Title
Letter from Taketaro Azeka to Hiroji Hosaka, July 17, 1942
Creator
Azeka, Taketaro: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-07-17
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
A letter from "T. Azeka" who is presumably Taketaro Azeka, to Hiroji Hosaka who had been incarcerated in the Santa Anita Assembly Center. He learned that Hiroji was arrested by FBI the day after Hiroji visited Taketaro's barber in Los Angeles. He wrote about his life in the Pomona Assembly Center: he created a garden; had been barbering 20 people per day; got a job to work in a barber in the assembly center, getting paid 16 dollars which were the highest pay rate; and listed events in the assembly center. He included his haiku poems.
Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters consists of correspondence between Hiroji Hosaka and his family and friends while he was imprisoned in the Santa Fe Detention Station, the Santa Anita Assembly Center, and the Heart Mountain incarceration camp during World War II. Also included are prewar photographs of the Daiichi Rafu Gakuen, that is, a Japanese language school in Los Angeles, and Japanese archery, a photograph of the Heart Mountain camp, and his business cards prior to the war.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
5 pages, 8.75-11 x 7.5-8.5 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
hos_01_19_001
csudh_hos_0022
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/52624
Language
Japanese
Subject
World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--Arrests, searches, and seizures
Identity and values--Issei
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Work and jobs
Industry and employment--Barbering and hairdressing
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Living conditions
Place
Pomona, California
Temporary Assembly Centers--Pomona
Temporary Assembly Centers--Santa Anita
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8t441dn/
Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters

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