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Overview: Papers, photographs, and moving films that document the incarceration of Yonekazu Satoda, a Japanese American man, at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas, 1942-1945, as well as his military service with the United States Army in Japan, 1946-1948. Additional material documents other aspects of his life, especially his education as an accountant, as well as correspondence with friends and businesses.

Yonekazu Staoda's diary has been digitized and is available online.

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Overview: Kogetsu Dale Morioka (1917-2000) was a Japanese American born in Walville, Washington. During World War II, he was incarcerated at the American concentration camp Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming from August 1942 to July 1945. Collection includes a photograph album and photographs formerly laid in, created, collected, and compiled by Morioka, documenting his activities and those of his family and friends in San Francisco and northern California, 1925-1941, and typescript copies of correspondence to Morioka, 1941-1945, including letters from correspondents incarcerated at American concentration camps in the western United States.

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Overview: Papers collected by Haruko Fujioka documenting her friendship with Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn, 1938-1948. Noriko "Nikki" Sawada Bridges Flynn (1923-2003) was a Japanese-American activist and writer. In 1942, she and her parents were incarcerated in the Colorado River Relocation Center in Poston, Arizona for three years. After the war, Flynn worked for the War Relocation Authority and several civil rights and union organizations, including the Berkeley Interracial Committee and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

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Overview: Sally Sakae Kusayanagi (1921-2015) of Los Angeles, California, was one of six children born to Japanese immigrants Takejiro and Matsu Kusayanagi. She was incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center 1942 June 1 and left 1943 August 11. In 1943 August, Kusayanagi and her sister were relocated out of the camp, with her parents and brother remaining at Manzanar until 1945. After receiving her clearance to depart, she left for Des Moines, Iowa, finding work as a switchboard operator at the National Screen Corp. She married Thomas Mosahur Okabe (1919-2003) 1944 May 28. The couple had five children. Okabe (1919-2003) was incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center 1942 June 1.

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Overview: Typed report evaluating concentration camps for prisoners of war, refugees, and other detainees in Seagoville, Kenedy, and Crystal City, Texas in 1943. Howard W. Elkinton visited three concentration camps housing German, Japanese, German-American, Japanese-American, Peruvian, Panamanian, and Nicaraguan detainees, incarcerees, and refugees. Elkinton (1892-1955) was an American Quaker who worked for the American Friends Service Committee to evaluate concentration camps for prisoners of war, refugees, and other detainees during World War II.