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Photographs of Japanese in Seattle during the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing. One photo along with a short blurb shows people tabulating the donations for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's "Buy a Boeing Bomber" campaign; another shows the…

Attorneys Thomas Masuda and Kenji Ito pleaded innocent of charges of being agents of Japan in U.S. Disctrict Court without first registering with the State Department. Masuda's attorney asked for a reduction in bail, which was denied.

Congressman Lea, Democrat of California, held in a conference in his office in which he and other U.S. representatives recommended that Japanese aliens and those with dual citizenship be removed from the West Coast and that they be given assistance…

U.S. Representative Leland Ford proposed sending all Japanese on the West Coast to concentration camps as a sacrifice of their loyalty to the U.S. Seattle Japanese, however, objected to the idea because they would become wards of the government; and…

Pictures of a fishing fleet in British Columbia near Vancouver and the confiscation by the government.

The federal government is trying to learn from the experience of Hawaii about what to do with the West Coast Japanese in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing. They don't want the coast to be vulnerable as Hawaii was.

Japanese students at the University of British Columbia were still participating in military training and would continue to do so, according to university president Klinck and Colonel Shrum.

All axis aliens over 14 will have to carry identification cards with their picture and fingerprint on it.

A letter writer to the Ubyssey, the newspaper at the University of British Columbia in Canada, urged the removal of Japanese in British Columbia and said it would be in the bests interests of the Japanese and the people of the province because it…

Speakers of the Japanese language were in short supply in the United States what with the war with Japan. Only a few universities offer instruction, and so the country is playing catch up to get more people knowledgeable about the enemy's language.…