Japanese Latin Americans

Letter from Kiyoko Matsuura to Kikuko Noda, January 26, 1945

A letter from Kiyoko Matsuura, an internee at the Crystal City Internment Camp, to her mother, Kikuko Noda in Lima, Peru. In the letter, she describes the celebration of the New Year [1945] at the internment camp and expresses her appreciation for the gifts sent by her mother. According to …
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Letter from Kiyoko Matsuura to Mizuko Noda, September 5, 1944

A letter from Kiyoko Matsuura, an internee in the Crystal City Internment Camp, to her sister in Lima Peru. In the letter, she includes updates on day to day life in the Crystal City camp and expresses her appreciation for the money sent by her father. Kiyoko states that she …
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[Graduation speech by Michi Weglyn]

A graduation speech by Michi Weglyn explaining why she wrote "Years of Infamy." She also discusses Japanese American and Japanese Latin American internment. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_01_019
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Redress and reparations

Redress Now for Japanese Latin Americans lobbying group


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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 24 (June 19, 1987)

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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Deportation and internment during World War II

Letter from Kiyoko Matsuura to Kikuko Noda, January 26, 1945

A letter from Kiyoko Matsuura, an internee at the Crystal City Internment Camp, to her mother, Kikuko Noda in Lima, Peru. In the letter, she describes the celebration of the New Year [1945] at the internment camp and expresses her appreciation for the gifts sent by her mother. According to …
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Letter from Kiyoko Matsuura to Mizuko Noda, September 5, 1944

A letter from Kiyoko Matsuura, an internee in the Crystal City Internment Camp, to her sister in Lima Peru. In the letter, she includes updates on day to day life in the Crystal City camp and expresses her appreciation for the money sent by her father. Kiyoko states that she …
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Repatriation to Japan

List of incarcerees at Crystal City to be repatriated, with letter from H.M. Boman, Director, Enemy Prisoner of War Information Bureau to Department of State Special Projects Division


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List of incarcerees to be repatriated from Crystal City with letter from N.D. Collaer to Jonathan Bingham, Chief of Alien Enemy Control


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Return to Latin America after World War II

Autobiography of Arthur Yakabi

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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