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17 large (20 inches tall by 25 inches long) scrapbooks filled with newspaper clippings. Most of them seem to deal with the Americans of Japanese Ancestry (AJA) experience here in Hawaii. Some of the clippings are in Japanese.

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AJA soldiers, Army language/translation schools

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Race issues, AJA soldiers, internment/resettlement

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AJA soldiers, race issues, internment

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Race issues, relocation/resettlement, Hawaii statehood

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Casualty lists, memorial services, war news, Earl Finch visit to Hawaii

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The Herbert S. Isonaga papers are divided into four series: 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Clippings, Personal, and Varisty Victory Volunteers. The majority of the collection falls under the Varsity Victory Volunteers (VVV) Series, which includes a variety of materials collected by Herbert Isogana throughout the years, as well as records and correspondence relating to official VVV activities such as the Varsity Victory Volunteers Scholarship.

Abstract

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...

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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.