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Title
Letter from Hiroji Hosaka to Takino Hosaka, May 21, 1942
Creator
Hosaka, Hiroji, 1890-1987: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-05-21
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 letter from Hiroji Hosaka to Takino and Teruo Hosaka. It was mailed from the Santa Fe Internment camp where he had been detained. He wrote about the hearing questions and parole from the Santa Fe Internment camp which had been uncertain. He also wrote names of the internees who were determined to remain in the Santa Fe Internment camp after the hearings and estimate of the internees who would remain there but the information was redacted. A postcard was enclosed and found in item: csudh_hos_0015.
Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters consists of correspondence between Hiroji Hosaka and his family and friends while he was imprisoned in the Santa Fe Detention Station, the Santa Anita Assembly Center, and the Heart Mountain incarceration camp during World War II. Also included are prewar photographs of the Daiichi Rafu Gakuen, that is, a Japanese language school in Los Angeles, and Japanese archery, a photograph of the Heart Mountain camp, and his business cards prior to the war.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
2 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
hos_01_12_001
csudh_hos_0014
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/52617
Language
Japanese
Subject
World War II--Department of Justice camps
Identity and values--Issei
World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--Decision to incarcerate
World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--Arrests, searches, and seizures
Place
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Department of Justice Internment Camps--Santa Fe
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/c8t441dn/
Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters

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