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Kiyoshi Sasaki (1921-2016) served in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service (MIS) in China and worked as a translator in occupied Japan. The collection consists primarily of an autograph book filled with photographs and inscriptions by Sasaki’s classmates at the MIS Language School, and a scrapbook containing memorabilia and documents collected during Sasaki’s World War II career, but especially during his training period on the U.S. Mainland.

Scope and Contents Note The materials include 45 photographic prints taken by 442nd Regimental Combat Team veteran Masao Sakagami, CDs and DVDs containing several hundred additional digitized images from Sakagami's collection, and a bound volume facsimile reproduction of a photoalbum / scrapbook (also represented among the digitized files). The prints, all annotated, depict 100th Battalion and 42nd Regimental Combat Team veterans' reunions from 1992 to 1996. Most of the images depict either reunions...

Abstract Literary archives of novelist and playwright Milton Murayama. Six linear feet of physical files, plus approximately 32 MB of born-digital files (transferred from several dozen floppy disks by Murayama's grand-nephew, David Wakukawa, and sent via Google Drive share; now downloaded to archives-dark server), plus 3 optical discs (transferred from removable media as of July 2024). Materials consist primarily of multiple drafts and revisions of Murayama's writings, but also personal and...

Overview Over 6,000 Japanese Americans worked for the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II in every combat theater. The MIS is credited with shortening the war by virtue of the intelligence their translations afforded the army. After World War II, MIS veterans met to organize a veterans’ club. The Military Intelligence Service Language Associates was formed in 1946, with Masaji Marumoto as its first president. It was later renamed the Military Intelligence Service Veterans. Since...

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The Mutsuo Hamada Papers contain exclusively military-related materials. The collection is divided into five series: Clippings & Newspapers, Language Training Materials, Memorabilia, Policies & Procedures, and Records.

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Whitey Yamamoto was actively engaged in attending events and collecting materials on the Japanese American war experience between 1980 and 2006. He collected newspaper articles, clippings, pamphlets, booklets, and memorabilia from many of the events and meetings he attended that focused on World War II and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This is a collection of ephemera and contains no personal letters or papers of Whitey or his family.

Abstract Ted T. Tsukiyama (born 1920-) of Honolulu, Hawaii, was a member of first the Varsity Victory Volunteers, then the 442nd Regimental Combat Team’s 522nd Field Artillery Battalion during World War II. Not long after he joined the 442nd he was transferred to the Military Intelligence Service. He was ultimately assigned to the 10th Army Air Force where he did radio intercept work. Following World War II, Tsukiyama received his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and then graduated from Yale...

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While in the Jerome, Arkansas internment camp, the Kirita family collected three issues of the camp's high school newsletter, "Condensor."

Vol. III, No. 1 (December 2, 1943)
Vol. III, No. 2 (December 16, 1943)
Vol. III, No. 4 (February 3, 1944)

Overview The Varsity Victory Volunteers (VVV) was a 169-member all-Japanese American volunteer labor unit assigned to the 34th Army Engineers at Schofield Barracks to assist in military construction projects from February 1942 through January 1943. A majority of the members were University of Hawaii ROTC students who were inducted into the Hawaii Territorial Guard (HTG) following the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. As a result of the general atmosphere of distrust following Pearl Harbor,...