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Returning home

Home, sweet home

Photographed is the Masukawa family's house on Lomita Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The caption reads: Home, sweet home. Title from caption. The handwritten note on the back side describes the house. The second part of the note is found in item: csudh_nao_0339. A photo from: Mitzi Naohara photo album …
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Masukawa and Ujita family

A photograph of the Masukawa and Ujita family. It is taken in Los Angeles, California after returning from the incarceration camps. The house belongs to the Ujitas. A photo from: Mitzi Naohara photo album (csudh_nao_0200), page 20. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …
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Sasaki family

Photographed is the Sasaki family, including Hiromi and Sally Sakaye, sitting in front of their house on Lomita Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. A photo from: Mitzi Naohara photo album (csudh_nao_0200), page 19. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_02_19_016
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Tomosuke Masukawa

Photographed is Tomosuke Masukawa. It is taken after he returned from the Poston incarceration camp in Arizona to Los Angeles, California. A photo from: Mitzi Naohara photo album (csudh_nao_0200), page 19. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_02_19_001
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Discriminatory laws

Kara Kondo Interview Segment 5

Impact of the Washington State alien land law on Japanese farmers
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Jim Hirabayashi Interview Segment 4

Discussion of family's legal case involving the alien land law

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this …


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Jim Hirabayashi Interview Segment 6

Discussion of prewar legal cases involving Issei

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically …


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Alien land laws

Executive board meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, March 14, 1935

Minutes of the third executive board meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Topics include anti-alien land bills and related legislation discussed at a special session of the Northern California District Council, the appointment of Hal Higashi as chairman of the Public Relations Board, and the purchase of …
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General meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League, March 21, 1935

Minutes of the third general meeting of the Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League. Topics discussed include JACL's policy regarding the anti-alien land bills before the Legislature, the question of whether to purchase an American flag for club use, and additional appointments to the Public Relations Board. See this object …
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Opinion (War Relocation Authority), no. 82 (September 8, 1944)

Report and analysis from Philip M. Glick, Solicitor, War Relocation Authority of Oregon alien land laws and individuals of Japanese ancestry. Covers a summary and discussion of the Oregon alien land laws. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1675
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