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Title
Appeal to all Americans of Japanese Ancestry and their parents
Creator
Rasmussen, Kai E.: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1943-06-23
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description
The main topics include: Introductory remarks; The nature and objectives of this school; The performance of graduates at the front; The recruiting of students; and Nisei Americans win recognition for loyal service.
The collection consists of documents, diaries, letters, books, calendars, newspapers, photographs, artifacts and audiovisual media pertaining to Kikuyo Morimoto Nakatani, a Japanese-born woman who lived in Isleton, California. During World War II, her family was incarcerated in the Minidoka and Tule Lake incarceration camps. After the war, she moved to Los Angeles and studied tea with Madame Sosei Matsumoto, and became a tea master acknowledged by the Urasenke Headquarters in Japan. The collection also contains letters from her son, Kunio, who served aboard the Yamato battleship for the Empire of Japan during World War II.
Type
text
Format
Narratives
19 pages; 10.5 x 8 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_nak_0069
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/23927
Language
English
Japanese
Subject
World War II--Military service
World War II--Military service--Recruiting and enlisting
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Kikuyo Morimoto Nakatani Papers

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