Tule Lake Unit – WDC List 1944 (U.S. National Park Service)
The documents in this section gives a rare look at the Japanese American population incarcerated in the Tule Lake Segregation Center from September 1943 through July 15, 1944. This list was compiled by the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command (WDC) following the forced removal to Tule Lake, known as segregation, of persons from the other nine WRA camps who refused to cooperate with the flawed loyalty questionnaire.

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Cultural News: Lecture: True story of the first Japanese colony, Jan 19

January 19, 2010 (Tuesday) 6:30 PM

Brian Tadashi Maeda, film director, will be speaking about his current film project: “Samurai of Gold Hill”

It is the fascinating sage of the “Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony,” first Japanese colony to establish itself in California.

The last samurai group of Aizu-Wakamatsu during the Bakumatsu (the End of Tokugawa Shogunate) period, escaped from Japan with a lead of a German to settling in Gold Hill, California.

The year was 1869, the second year of the Meiji when they finally arrived at California. [more information]

More information about Wakamatsu Colony at Rafu Shimpo: A Legend Reborn By Ryoko Ohnishi

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Getting a lot of spam bots or spammers trying to register at the forum.

I delete a lot of them, and sometimes I may inadvertently delete a legitimate registration, so please retry if that is you. That can be avoided if you use a good name and a good email address, a lot of the spammers use hotmail, gmail and yahoo because they are so anonymous. I get around the spammer by checking the IP address to see if they are problem IPs.

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Michele Bachmann is alleging that census taking will lead to “Internment” camps! 

What does Michele Bachmann know about these concentration camps?  If she would spend more time fighting for the civil rights of all American’s these things wouldn’t happen, yet she and her conservative base are spreading lies about the census takers.  If conservatives would fight for civil rights instead of working hard to target sellect groups of people like the LGBT community for one, internment camps like these wouldn’t happen, but they are working hard across America targeting LGBT people because of their personal religious views.

If internment camps come back it will not be because a guy was taking a census note, it will come back because the civil right’s of American’s and Californian’s were taken away by a vote of these religious people.

Check out documentary about the Japanese being taken away to these “internment” camps.  My grandfather came home to an anvil, and that’s what was left, it must have been to heavy for people to carry off.  We still have that anvil.

Manzanar: “Never Again” Released – Video by Ken Burns

Manzanar: “Never Again,” a short film by critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, has been released by WETA-TV (Public Television in Washington, DC) and Florentine Films. The mini-documentary is one of five such films produced by WETA and Florentine Films as part of their Untold Stories project. [see video here]

Manzanar: “Never Again” was shown at a preview screening at the Beverly and Jim Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film History in Lone Pine, California on April 24, 2009. It was also screened at the Manzanar At Dusk program on April 25, 2009, following the 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage, held earlier that day at the Manzanar National Historic Site.

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The forum is not accessible when using http://forum.nikkeiancestry.com/

I’ve contacted the hosting service. You can get to the forum by using http://www.forum.nikkeiancestry.com/ until it gets fixed. Some links that don’t have the WWW are currently down. Sorry for the confusion.

Access the forum at http://www.forum.nikkeiancestry.com/

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Japanese American Citizens League
The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) applauds Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for her comments that the massive incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was a mistake and that detention solely based on race is wrong.

Judge Sotomayer’s reply to Senator Feingold

Never Rule From Fear | 3:04 p.m. In trying to get at rulings made during wartime, Senator Feingold mentions the World War II decision Korematsu v. United States (in 1944), which permitted the detention in camps of citizens of Japanese descent. (A brief explanation of the case here.)

“A judge should never rule from fear,” Judge Sotomayor says in a very strong voice. “A judge should rule from the law and the Constitution.” She calls it “inconceivable” that a decision today would permit the arrest and detention of people based solely on their race.

It’s that lack of knowledge in a society that causes things to creep up on us again and again, it might not be happening to the Japanese this time, but it’s happening to other groups of people based on who they are.  The LGBT community is currently the target of religious extremist pushing their own social “conservatism” views on others who don’t belong to those particular groups, much less their particular religious faith.  They’re using fear as the same tool and manipulating lies in order to get people to turn and attack the LGBT community, and their families based on their religious fears.

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“A Friendship With Heros” is about two sisters who’s father Sgt Bill Hardwich was rescued by Nisei of the 442nd at Vosges Mountains in France when a group of soldiers, “Lost Battalion,” became stranded.  The Hardwick sisters wanted to thank the Nisei soldiers because it’s what their father had been wanting to do, but he never had the chance and many years later his dreams came true through his daughters. 

I learned about the 442nd almost 20 years ago when I was doing some research on the camps Japanese American’s where taken to.  My own father never spoke about the war, and I had an Army patch that belonged to dad, but I didn’t know anything about it.  It wasn’t until his death that I learned from my brother that he was in the 442nd, but I don’t know the details of any campaigns other than some names written on a DD-214.

I hope more information gets documented, so the rest of us could learn the true history of what happened during those years.

Read the full story of the Hardwick Sisters at Pacific Citizen Newspaper

More about 442nd at Go For Broke National Education Center

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I’m appalled this has happened!

We have U.S. Soldiers fighting a war against alleged “terrorists,” yet they’re here in our own back yard, and have been here for a long time.  The Department of Homeland Security, DHS, needs to do more to protect all American’s within the U.S. and monitor these right wing terrorist groups, so that this doesn’t happen again.

The constitution should be enough to protect all citizens against this hate, so please defend our constitutions from those who wish to change it.

Japanese American Citizens League Website
Members of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) are dismayed and appalled at the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum which resulted in the death of a courageous museum security guard.

[Click here for the pdf; JACL response]

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So, it may be a little bumpy, hopefully not! Also, this Wordpress blog http://news.nikkeiancestry.com/wordpress/ will be moving to http://nikkeiancestry.com

Actually, I’ve already moved the forum with it’s database, so you can go their now.

Everything should be working. The main domain name, nikkeiancestry.com, will have a Wordpress blog [This one}, and there will also be a link to the forum from the blog. This will help bring more interested genealogist or interested people to participate in the forum.

If anyone speaks and writes Japanese and wouldn't mind helping some genealogists in translating some documents in the forum [peer to peer support group], that would greatly help, and be appreciated.

So, the two domain names are:

http://nikkeiancestry.com [Nikkei Ancestry Wordpress Blog] This blog!

http://forum.nikkeiancestry.com [Nikkei Ancestry Forum]

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This exhibit has already taken place, but the artist is looking for exhibitors in the US.  It’s a scroll painted over a period of about 14 years by a Japanese artist Rakushi Hojo, and depicts the Japanese American history of Hawaii and the mainland.

Interested in Japanese-American heritage? See the amazing scrolls in Yokohama on June 5.
日系移民歴史にご興味? 横浜文化体育会館にて６月５日(金)一日のみの展示会が開催されます。お一人の夢はカタチにする１４年間かかった作品です。是非、お立ち寄りください

The World’s Longest Picture Scroll depicting Japanese American History on Exhibit in Yokohama, Japan – Free-Press-Release.com

United States of America (Press Release) May 5, 2009 — Japanese artist seeks exhibitors in the U.S. to exhibit the world’s longest picture scroll , which will be on exhibit for the first time to the public on June 5, 2009, at Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan as a part of 150th Anniversary of the Port of Yokohama.

The scroll, painted on specialized local “Washi (Japanese)” papers, is 34-volume, 620-meter long with 1069 frames containing 120,000 people, with scenes spanning from the 13th Century to present.

For contact information please see link.

[read more about the world's longest scroll ]

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