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Oral History Interview with Leslie Morishita regarding Meng Huang

News article; Frank Kitamoto, who was 2 when he and his family were ordered to move form Bainbridge Island to Manzanar and the president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community, will unveil a marker in a ceremony to remember the days of…

Syndicated columnist Henry McLemore suggested, tongue in cheek, that Santa Anita Racetrack, where Japanese and Japanese Americans were temporarily housed, be reopened so that the residents could play the horses and thus raise funds for the war…

Editorial in one of the Seattle newspapers concerning the monument and cherry trees that had been donated to Seattle at Seward Park and the importance of not vandalizing them as had happened in Washington, D.C. in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor…

Clarence Arai, former president of the Seattle JACL and also former national president of the JACL, urged Japanese Americans to assist in the war effort and to be good, patriotic citizens in working together with others so that democracy might…