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Jim Tanaka
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Interviews
Description: What happened after the Pearl Harbor attack; restrictions; contraband confiscation; curfew; impact on family farm.
Description: Evacuation to assembly center; construction; communal facilities; cold water.

Description: Family structure breaks down in the camps

Clip 4

Description: One suitcase (what would you take to the camps); loss due to theft after evacuation.

Clip 5

Description: Mischief at Tule Lake; one finger salute; seagulls painted with the rising sun; agitating the guards

Clip 6

Description: Loyalty Questionnaire (27th and 28th Questions); Caused tension and fights; renounce citizenship, "no-no" camp and the "no no boys."

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Description: Drafted to Topaz, Utah; all were communal; all camps had 3 things in common; description of dust flying throughout the camps.
Description: Army ; segregated units; 100th and 442nd battalions; training; no one wanted responsibility for the troops; detailed information about the segregated units.
Description: Couldn't get a good job because he wasn't not allowed in union/strikebreaking led to union membership.
Description: Scariest experience in war, 442 & 100 in Italy and N. Africa, resilience of military on battlefield.
Clip 11
Description: Japanese-Peruvians incarcerated in Texas to be exchanged for American POWs, passports taken away, Crystal Lake Camp described.
Description: Talks about the constitution, how the constitution did not fail him, the elected officials failed him. How important his vote was.

 

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