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Gambling practices in Chinatown/ International District. Discusses police involvment in preventing gambling and other crimes in area. Mentions tongs and gangs connections to gambling and crime.

Black and White photograph. Group portrait, Thomas Japanese School graduation, dated 4/1/1939.
Thomas Japanese School, Thomas, WA (between Auburn and Kent). Back row: seventh from left, Shoichiro Katsuno.

Web exhibition: #283

The Minidoka internment camp in English and Japanese

Reviews of two Tsutakawa exhibits, one at the Seattle Art Museum and one at the Foster/White Gallery. Includes brief mention of Daniel Shurman' show, also at Foster/White.

A "Day of Remembrance" at the Puyallup Fairgrounds, the former Camp Harmony, was held by the Japanese American Citizens League for the Nikkei incarcerated during World War II.

President Gerald Ford rescinds Executive Order 9066, the order incarcerating Japanese Americans during World War II.

A family prepares to celebrate the Lunar New Year and looks forward to the good luck they hope it will bring.