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Description
Copy of original Japanese Family Register for Taneo Akiyama, Head of Family. The Akiyama’s owned the Florin Fish Store until it was burned down during their WWII incarceration. Their four sons went to Japan for further education as teenagers and one was conscripted into the Imperial military. After December 7, 1941 Mr. Akiyama was detained by the FBI in Crystal City, Texas. Mrs. Akiyama and her three sons were forcefully evacuated to Fresno Assembly Center, Jerome incarceration camp and then to Crystal City to join Mr. Akiyama. In December 1945 the family repatriated to Japan and were reunited in Sacramento after six years in Japan. Part of the Japanese American Archival Collection.
Type
text
Format
Official documents; Government records; Chronologies 2 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches application/pdf
Japan--Government and politics World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Renunciation of citizenship Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Kibei Identity and values--Family
Place
Tokyo, Japan
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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