Memo from J. Daniel Hanley to undisclosed recipient regarding evacuating Peruvian Japanese to the U.S. Discusses previous communications with the American Embassy in Lima including recommendations to the Peruvian government.
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Memorandum to the Peruvian ambassador
Memorandum states that Japanese people form the largest foreign element in Peru. Opinion: the Japanese in Peru are dangerous, organized, and patriotic to Japan. Recommendations: "dangerous" Japanese leaders should be expelled from Peru; encourage propaganda to bring the "Japanese danger" to the Peruvians' attention.
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Japanese in Brazil. (March 17, 1915)
The Seattle Daily Times, March 17, 1915, p. 6
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Selected article titles: "'Tokyo Time' Is About Love--Nikkei Style" (pp. 1-2), "Calif. Bill Urges President, Congress to Approve Redress" (p. 1), "Japanese American History to Be Celebrated During Omatsuri" (p. 3), and "Japanese Peruvians Still Ineligible for Payments" (p. 8)j.
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Selected article titles: "Three Nisei Deported from Peru in WWII Sue U.S. for Redress" (pp. 1, 12), "Bill Poses Threat to Affirmative Action, Says AP Organization" (pp. 1, 12), "National JACL to Take on This 'Monumental Task'" (p. 5), and "Voices: Not Enough Asian Americans Ambassadors" (p. 9).
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Redress Now for Japanese Latin Americans lobbying group
Letter from Yoshihiko Matsuura to Kiyoko Noda, April 30, 1949
A letter from Yoshihiko Matsuura, an internee in the Crystal City Internment Camp, Texas, to his grandmother, Kiyoko Noda, in Lima, Peru. He includes updates on day to day life in the Crystal City camp, including the event on the Emperor's birthday [April 29] and a play performed in the …
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'What about Hugh Kiino'
This article from a magazine "Harper's," vol. 187, no. 1121 (October 1943), by S. Burton Heath is about a Japanese American citizen called Hugh Kiino. It addresses how Kiino, his wife, and seven thousand other Japanese Americans were forced by the United States army to leave their homes, desert their …
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Letter from Michi Weglyn to the editor, The Washington Post, April 10, 1998
A letter to the editor at the Washington Post from Michi Weglyn. In the letter Weglyn describes the experiences of Japanese Latin Americans interned during World War II. She also describes their efforts to obtain redress from the U. S. government. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese …
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Photocopy of Arthur Yakabi's handwritten autobiography detailing his childhood in Peru, detention in the United States during WWII, and his adulthood in the United States.
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