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Title
Seimeisho 聲明書
Creator
Sokuji Kikoku Hoshidan
Date Created and/or Issued
1945-01-26
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
Seimeisho 聲明書, that is, a proclamation issued by Sokuji Kikoku Hoshi Dan or Sokuji Kikoku Hoshidan 即時帰國奉仕團 that is translated as "Organization to Return Immediately to the Homeland to Serve" and a pro-Japanese group consisted of the Issei leaders and formed in the Tule Lake Segregation Center.
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.
Type
text
Format
Leaflets
1 page, 8.5 x 11 inches
application/pdf
Identifier
kuy_01_33_001
csudh_kuy_0143
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/50243
Language
Japanese
Subject
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Segregation and Tule Lake
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Expatriation/repatriation/deportation
Identity and values--Issei
Place
Newell, California
Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
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/c86q243c/
Kiyoshi Uyekawa Tule Lake Camp Collection

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