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Title
Manuscript of the collection of interviews from Japanese internees
Creator
Wada, Tomoji, 1882-1974: author
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 handwritten manuscript of the collection of interviews. Interviewees include Kango Kawasaki, who graduated from UC Berkeley and practiced law in Hawaii. He described the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor and his internment in the several camps; Wasaburo Uranaka, who was a photographer in Hawaii. He detailed Schofield Barracks after the attack on Pearl Harbor; Yoshizumi Buddhist missionary; and others who talked about the Japanese war battles. It was written and compiled by Tomoji Wada.
Tomoji Wada was an interpreter, bookkeeper, operator of a grocery store, and manufacturer of tofu and mochi on Terminal Island, California prior to World War II. He established a tofu manufacturing plant at the Poston camp in Arizona during the war, and became a gardener after returning from the incarceration camp to Los Angeles, California. The collection consists of receipts, ledgers, taxes, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, journals, guidebooks, immigration materials, and incarceration camp records pertaining to Tomoji Wada and his family. Materials include born-digital objects created and transferred from the donor.
Type
text
Format
Manuscripts; Interviews
1 volume (81 pages), 9.5 x 6.75 inches, handwritten
image/jpeg
Identifier
wad_01_30_001
csudh_wad_0313
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37047
Language
Japanese
Subject
World War II--U.S. Army internment camps
Identity and values--Issei
Geographic communities--Hawai'i
Place
U.S. Army Internment Camps--Lordsburg
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/c84q8253/
Tomoji Wada Family Papers

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