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Title
Letter from Masao Okine to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, October 22, 1945 [in Japanese]
Creator
Okine, Masao: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1945-10-22
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
Masao Okine writes from the Military Intelligence Service Language School in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, to his parents, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine in the Rohwer incarceration camp. The letter describes the school situation in which the US Army demands that the students need to complete the study and training in a shorter period of time. He also writes about his plan to visit his parents in the Rohwer incarceration camp during the vacation in November. The handwritten notes on the back of the envelope read: Arrived on October 25 [in Japanese].
The Okine Collection contains materials collected by Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine who were Issei flower growers in Whittier, California. It includes correspondence, photographs, financial documents, and a photo album. A large portion of the collection consists of family correspondence with Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine, including letters from their Nisei children, Masao and Makoto Okine, both soldiers overseas during World War II, to their Issei parents incarcerated in the Rohwer incarceration camp in McGehee, Arkansas. The correspondence also includes letters from their relatives and friends who are former incarcerees in the camps during the war and have “resettled” in Chicago, Illinois as well as letters from the Okines’ family members in Hiroshima, Japan during the Allied occupation of Japan. In addition, the collection includes a family photo album compiled by Dorothy Ai Aoki, a Nisei daughter to the Okines.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
1 page, 7.25 x 10.75 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope
application/pdf
Identifier
oki_01_29_001
csudh_oki_0097
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/6756
Language
Japanese
Subject
Identity and values--Nisei
World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service
Military service--Post-World War II service
Place
Sant Paul, Minnesota
Incarceration Camps--Rohwer
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Okine Collection

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