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Japanese Problem

A letter writer, Violet M. Johnson, criticizes previous letter writers to the Seattle P-I who condemn all Japanese because of the Pearl Harbor bombing, and asks for understanding and justice.

Washington Merry Go Round

In his syndicated column, writer Drew Pearson reported some people were upset about the permissive attitude of the alien enemy review boards that were scrutinizing certain aliens. He claimed some of the board members were friends of the aliens, or…

Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle

Chapter on the Anti-Chinese riots in Seattle 1885 - 86.

The Stolen Years Part One

After Pearl Harbor, as the US imprisoned thousands of its own citizens in Internment Camps, more than 400 Japanese American students had to drop out of the UW. This is the story of some forced to leave and the efforts the UW made to protect them.

Toyohiko Kagawa

Program for sermon about Toyohiko Kagawa and a short biography.

A Son's Enduring War Letter

Letter originally printed in the Seattle Post Intelligencer and reprinted in the Honolulu Advertiser from where is copy came. Sgt. George Katsuyu Sawada a Seattle native wrote this letter to his father nine weeks before he was killed by a sniper in…

History of the Japanese of Tacoma

Translation of Issei history Tacoma nihonjin hattenshi ( History of the Devlopment of the Tacoma Japanese) published in 1917 by the Tacoma Japanese Association.

Homicide in Seattle's Chinatown, 1900-1940

How features of Chinese social organization influenced patterns of homicide in Seattle's Chinatown from 1900-1940.

Chinese People in Hawaii and The Wo Hing Society

Historical inforamtion about the Chinese who came to Hawaii