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Title
Letter from Shohachi Wada to Joe and Kan Wada, 1975
Creator
Wada, Shohachi, 1913-1977: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1975
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
A letter from Shohachi Wada in Taiji-cho, Wakayama, Japan to Kan and Joe Wada. It updates on his family members: His eldest daughter, Yoko, passed away because of illness; his second and third daughters got married and have children; his son became a designer at a crystal company; and Shohachi enjoys his retirement life, traveling in Europe and visiting museums. He encloses a affidavit form received from the local village office and asks Kan and Joe to sign on it. The affidavit form is found in item: csudh_wad_0287. The Japanese version of this letter is found in item: csudh_wad_0286.
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
Correspondence
1 page, 11 x 8 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
wad_01_36_001
csudh_wad_0282
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37076
Language
English
Subject
Identity and values--Issei
Identity and values--Nisei
Japan--Post-World War II
Place
Taiji-cho, Japan
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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