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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two scarce 1945 original pamphlets encouraging Japanese Nisei, recently released from West Coast Internment Camps, to relocate to Philadelphia: WANTED, A Friendly Community For Family Resettlement, Found The City For Family Relocation, Philadelphia / Philadelphia …. Why? We The Relocatees Speak To You In Our Own Words Because We Are Sincerely Interested In You …. Published by the Philadelphia District Office of the War Relocation Authority, Philadelphia, PA. 1945 first edition. Illustrated by Masao Yabuki. Illustrated wraps, 10.5" x 8", 13 numbered pages, mimeographed sheets, staple bound. Contributions from Japanese Internees relating their experiences and from which Internment Camp they were imprisoned and released. VERY GOOD Condition: some age toning and light wear to the covers, spine fold split at the ends, staples are oxidized and no longer holding inner pages, internally light signs of age and use, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, none found in OCLC collections worldwide. Philadelphia 1945 Young Penn Meets Nisei…Plant'g Friendship Hiroshi Uyehara, Editor. Published under the auspices of the Philadelphia Nisei Council and the International Institute, Philadelphia, PA. 1945 first edition. Cover illustration by Masao Yabuki. Illustrated wraps, 8.5" x 5.5", 24 pages including covers, mimeographed sheets, staple bound, map frontispiece, b&w drawings throughout, last 4 pages in Japanese. From the introduction: "If Philadelphia be your choice, this booklet that we have compiled out of our actual experiences and up-to-date facts may be of help in introducing you to the 'ins and outs' of this city that we have come to love and has become home to us." VERY GOOD Condition: staples oxidized and light signs of age otherwise thighs, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, only one copy found in OCLC collections worldwide at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Nisei Council was a grassroots organization established in May 1945 to support and encourage Japanese Americans to resettle in the Philadelphia area after leaving West Coast Internment Camps. The internees homes and property were seized by the US government and the only possessions they had on release were carried in suitcases. They had to make new lives for themselves and their families and many did not want to go back to where they were before the war. The Council acted as a vital relocation social network, publishing and distributing informational pamphlets offering advice on finding employment, local housing, hostels, schools, food, fun and general help navigating the post war Philadelphia community. Philadelphia earned its moniker the "City of Brotherly Love" at key moments in national history, the establishment of a community for recently imprisoned Japanese Americans during World War II was one such moment. After the Pearl Harbor attacks, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast to prison camps inland. This violated Japanese Americans' right to due process, stripped many families of wealth, and caused generational hardship. After the east coast was opened to resettlement in January 1944, the Philadelphia War Relocation program helped find new homes and employment for thousands of Japanese American evacuees who had nothing to return home to on the West Coast. …

4to. 63, [1] pp. With colour plates, 1 map. Gold library cloth publisher's binding, black lettering on spine (scuffing, and offsetting from jacket Brodart being glued securely originally to pastedowns, ex-lib markings on endpapers), w/ d.j. cover art by Takashima (minor edgewear, slight creasing, partially removed spine label for "Library Edition"), still a G/VG copy. First U.S. edition of this searing and poignant illustrated memoir of the artist's experiences being stripped of their Canadian Civil Rights, herded into railcars, and shipped to New Denver Internment Camp on Slocam Lake, Canada for over 3 years during World War II. Her watercolour paintings earned a Gold Medal from the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians, and was the first major publication to examine the Japanese-Canadian experience of illegal internment by a Japanese-Canadian writer. Takashima (1928-2005) studied at the Ontario College of Art following the War, later taught there from 1976 to retirement in 1994, and also spent extensive time traveling in Mexico, India, New York, and Japan. …

Four-panel brochure (5 1/2" x 8 1/2"), printed in blue on white stock. The front panel features a photographic illustration of three Japanese-American students at the University of Nebraska. Previous owner's pencil signature to the top of the front panel; otherwise very good. Scarce, OCLC locates only two holdings, at the Bancroft and the Presbyterian Historical Society. Outlines plans to assist Japanese-American students whose university studies were interrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor and Executive Order 9066, which set into motion the removal and imprisonment of 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. It describes the success as of January 1943 at finding institutions in the interior, outside the evacuation zone, willing to accept these students as transfers and makes a plea for donations to continue the program: "A great deal is at stake in this job of relocating our Nisei students. Their belief in American democracy, which they have been taught as American citizens, and in good faith of the nation of which they are part, is at stake." Offered together with: HOW TO HELP JAPANESE AMERICAN STUDENT RELOCATION. Philadelphia: National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, 1943. Pamphlet (4" x 8 3/4"): 8 p. Printed in black on cream stock and bound with a staple. A crisp and clean example. OCLC locates four holdings: Emory, Stanford, UC Irvine, and Wisconsin Historical Society. Frames the effort as a common task for church and college, touching on the rise of anti-Japanese discrimination in the United States and the financial commitment required to assist students displaced by the war. Includes a statement from a Nisei student: "Consider us as you would any other American student on campus. Within and without the classroom help us to become one of your group." The final two panels are dedicated to an annotated bibliography of suggested references.…

Illustrated. [2], 23pp. Illustrated. [2], 23pp. Original wrappers, side stapled.

dj. First Edition. [Japanese American] [WWII] Rademaker, John A. These Are Americans: the Japanese Americans in Hawaii in World War II. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books, 1951. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Heavily illustrated with photographs of the 442nd regimental combat team, Japanese farm workers, nurses, students, and other Japanese American contributors during the war. Bound in publisher's beige cloth with green and red illustration and lettering. Illustrated dust jacket. 278 pages. 4to. Rademaker, a sociologist and anthropologist at Willamette University, presents an early postwar study of Japanese Americans, focusing on their war time contributions, cultural heritage, community organization, and integration into American life. Written just six years after the end of World War II, the book addresses both the prewar contributions of Japanese immigrants and their American-born children, as well as the profound disruption caused by wartime exclusion and incarceration under Executive Order 9066. The narrative draws on demographic data, personal accounts, and field studies to counter prevailing stereotypes, framing Japanese Americans as industrious, civic-minded citizens whose story forms part of the larger immigrant narrative in the United States. Notably, Rademaker's work was published in a period when public opinion about Japanese Americans was still deeply shaped by wartime propaganda, making this text a rare early scholarly defense of their full inclusion in American society. Rademaker's inscription and signature can be seen at the top margin of the title page and is presumably inscribed to a Japanese American man; "With best wishes to an astounding American whose memories of Pearl Harbor Day, 1941 will always make him a part of the scenes and actions described in this book. John A. Rademaker." Minor wear to dust jacket and cover extremities, some tape on front board cover, and ex library stamps to fore edge and front free endpaper. Dust jacket is price clipped. Some pencil inscriptions on the margins of front papers, otherwise pages clean and binding is sound. Overall very good condition. A signed first edition of a historically significant sociological study on Japanese Americans during the critical transition from wartime prejudice to postwar reintegration, scarce in the market with the author's signature. Signed.…

20pp. 8vo. 20pp. 8vo. One of several reprint of the influential and revealing Fortune Magazine article "Issei, Nisei, Kibei", which critically reviewed the war relocation program. This edition with illustrated wrappers by Mine Okubo (1912-2001) who was interned at the Topaz Relocation Center. Original illustrated wrappers, side stapled. …

Condizione: Stapled. Together, 2 items and 46pp. 4to. 1) Supplementary Statement . Before the Sub-Committee of the Military Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate. 25, 3, 3, [1]pp. Stapled. Toned and brittle. 2) The Truth About Relocation. An Address delivered . before a luncheon meeting of the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California, on August 6, 1943. [2], 12pp. Stapled. Myer served as the War Relocation Authority (WRA) director from 1942 to 1946, and oversaw the government agency charged with the forced removal and resettlement of Japanese Americans. Together, 2 items and 46pp. 4to.…

First Edition. Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal,1944, a photographic record of Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California during World War II. Adams produced the work following visits to Manzanar in 1943 and 1944, when Japanese American families were confined under wartime relocation policies after Executive Order 9066. The book documents daily life inside the camp and portrays individuals who had lost homes, businesses, and professions after forced removal from the West Coast. Adams framed the project as an effort to depict the civic loyalty and resilience of the incarcerated community while the war was still underway and anti Japanese sentiment remained widespread in the United States. Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans. New York: U.S. Camera, 1944. First edition, first printing. Adams undertook the project after being invited by Manzanar director Ralph Merritt to photograph life at the camp. The resulting images were later exhibited publicly and published in this volume. Adams described his intent directly in the book: "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment.All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document." The photographs portray residents of the camp in everyday activities and community roles, including families, nurses, students, farmers, and veterans such as Nobutero Harry Sumida, identified in the text as a Spanish American War veteran. The book also includes landscape images of the Owens Valley surrounding the camp. Adams's Manzanar photographs became part of a broader effort during the war to shape public perception of the incarceration of Japanese Americans, and the publication and exhibition of the images generated significant discussion because of the subject matter. The work remains one of the earliest extended photographic documentations of life within a wartime relocation center. Softcover volume measuring approximately 11 × 8 inches. 112 pages including 65 photographic illustrations. Stapled maroon wrappers with light green lettering. Chipping along margins of front and back covers, spine stripped but binding holding tightly. Foxing to title page. Interior pages and photographic reproductions remain clean and bright. Good condition overall. An important contemporary photographic record of Japanese American wartime incarceration.…

[Japanese Internment] Heart Mountain War Relocation Center materials documenting administrative theory alongside camp level cultural practice. The War Relocation Authority's political administration and daily life inside Japanese American incarceration during World War II, including a copy of Community Government in War Relocation Centers signed "Rachel Sady," likely the anthropologist Rachel Reese Sady of the War Relocation Authority's Community Analysis Section, paired with a 1944 recital program naming Heart Mountain residents and a camp letterhead sheet. The booklet analyzes block organization, temporary councils, organizing commissions, the crises at Poston and Manzanar, registration, and the extension of representation to Issei, while the recital program shows community activities operating within Heart Mountain's own block and barracks geography. Heart Mountain opened in Wyoming in August 1942 under the War Relocation Authority, held more than 10,000 Japanese Americans behind barbed wire and guard towers, and differed from most WRA camps in relying on a Temporary Council of Block Chairmen rather than a standard elected community council, making this grouping a sharp document of how federal control and inmate social life intersected within one confinement site. 1944-1946, Heart Mountain, Wyoming, with one Washington, D.C., War Relocation Authority publication. Archive of 3 items: 1 typed recital program, 1 Heart Mountain War Relocation Project letterhead sheet, and 1 printed WRA booklet. [1] United States. War Relocation Authority. Community Government in War Relocation Centers. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, [1946]. Printed wrappers, upper cover signed "Rachel Sady." Prepared by Solon T. Kimball, head of the Section of Community Government, the 103-page volume examines the War Relocation Authority's effort to construct political administration within the camps through legal policy, block organization, temporary community councils, organizing commissions, and debates over representation, with sections on the Poston strike, the Manzanar riot, registration, and the extension of representation to the Issei. Its closing pages turn from camp governance to the consequences of removal itself, recommending "special governmental agencies or units" to provide "resettlement aid (grants)" and "loans" to former inmates, and stating in a "statement of facts" that "mental suffering has been caused by the forced mass evictions" and that there had been "almost a complete destruction of financial foundations built during over half a century." The signature matches the name of anthropologist Rachel Reese Sady, a University of Chicago trained researcher who worked for the WRA's Community Analysis Section during the war and later wrote on labor relations, race relations, and rumors in the camps; without further provenance, the inscription is best treated as a probable but unconfirmed identification. [2] The Community Activities of Heart Mountain invites you to a Pupils Piano Recital of Julia Kuwahara. Heart Mountain, Wyoming: Community Activities of Heart Mountain, May 29, 1944. Typed program for a recital held Monday evening at 8:00 p.m. in "Y Lounge, 23-25-N." The program names Heart Mountain residents and performers including Nobuko Kato, Lillian Kumagai, Helen Kato, Fumiko Fukuda, Kiyoko Nomura, Linda Ito, Matsuko Iizuka, Taneko Okauchi, Frances Okazaki, and Kiku Hori, with repertoire by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and others. In documentary terms, this is the strongest item in the group: it anchors camp cultural life to a precise date and place while preserving a roster of named individuals living inside Heart Mountain's internal address system. [3] Heart Mountain War Relocation Project letterhead. Heart Mountain, Wyoming: War Relocation Authority, circa 1944-1945. Single sheet with printed Heart Mountain vignette and the designation "Heart Mountain War Relocation Project / Heart Mountain, Wyoming." Though blank, the stationery locates the other material within the camp's official administrative framework and provides a direct artifact of WRA institutional print culture at Heart Mountain. Heart Mountain developed one of the most contested political cultures in the WRA system, later becoming the center of resistance to the military draft in 1944 and 1945, while everyday camp life still depended on schools, churches, clubs, and community activities organized inside the barracks blocks. That tension is exactly what this grouping preserves: the federal language of managed "community government," the named residents who populated Heart Mountain's musical and educational life, and the camp stationery that ties both to a specific incarceration site. Light edge wear, toning, and scattered staining to the recital program; letterhead with light wear and minor staining; booklet with wrapper wear, front and back disconnected from body but in tact. Overall good condition. A compact documentary group linking WRA administrative policy to identifiable Heart Mountain residents and the lived structure of community life inside confinement. Signed.…

[Japanese Internment] [Law & Public Policy] Previously owned by Takako Saito; a documented Manzanar incarceree; this archive of three books titled National Defense Migration Hearings; intended for use by the Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration; Parts 29-31; 1942; documents Congress's investigation into the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast following Executive Order 9066. Held by the House Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration (Tolan Committee) in February and March 1942; these hearings gathered testimony in San Francisco; Portland; Seattle; and Los Angeles on the proposed "evacuation" from military zones. The record preserves arguments from military officials; agricultural interests; and civic leaders alongside responses from Japanese American representatives; capturing the administrative and racial logic used to justify removal as policy moved from proposal to execution. Approximately 120;000 individuals of Japanese ancestry were subsequently incarcerated without due process under this framework; making these hearings a primary federal record of the decision-making process behind wartime incarceration. As a participant in wartime student relocation; Saito experienced firsthand the policy this archive records. The volumes therefore function not only as federal documentation of removal but as contemporaneous evidence of how that policy was encountered; read; and preserved by an individual displaced under its authority. United States House of Representatives. National Defense Migration. Hearings Before the Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration; House of Representatives; Seventy-Seventh Congress; Second Session; Pursuant to H. Res. 113. Washington; D.C.: Government Printing Office; 1942. Three parts: Part 29 (San Francisco hearings; February 21 and 23; 1942); Part 30 (Portland and Seattle hearings; February 26-March 2; 1942); Part 31 (Los Angeles and San Francisco hearings; March 6-12; 1942). Original printed paperbound volumes. Each bearing a contemporary ownership inscription: "Takako Saito; 5217 Chicago Street; Omaha; Nebraska; May 17; 1942." The named owner is identifiable as a Nisei student from Los Angeles who was removed from Boyle Heights and incarcerated at Manzanar before relocating to Omaha through the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council to continue her studies. These volumes align directly with the early implementation phase of wartime removal; and the May 1942 ownership inscription places them within the active period of displacement and confinement. The hearings record the federal rationale for exclusion; while the identified owner's trajectory-from Los Angeles to incarceration and subsequent relocation through wartime educational programs-provides a documented example of how these policies operated at the level of individual lives. Light to moderate wear to wrappers with surface spotting and edge wear consistent with handling. Overall in good condition. The combination of congressional policy record and named incarcerated owner establishes a direct relationship between federal decision-making and its consequences; situating the material within the broader history of Japanese American incarceration and wartime civil liberties restrictions.…

Condizione: Near Fine. A booklet published by the Quaker anti-war group Fellowship of Reconciliation concerning the evacuation and resettlement of west-coast Japanese Americans. The booklet was written from federal prison by conscientious objector Caleb Foote, who would later become a leading scholar of criminal justice reform; with a foreword by prominent anti-internment activist Galen Fisher. Fisher describes its contents: "[I]t strikes a body blow to keep the Constitution valid for all, and takes square issue with those who would expurgate it for persons of Japanese descent. It is not an appeal for sympathy for the evacuees, but an argument for justice, and that is what the evacuees themselves want. Facts are arrayed about the whole gamut of evacuation and resettlement, but the emphasis on the deeper issues affecting our American democracy is at the core of the booklet." The booklet is illustrated with photographs of Japanese internment taken by Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, Francis Stewart, Joe McClelland, and Tom Parker. Lange, Albers, Stewart, and Parker worked for the War Relocation Authority; and McLelland worked at the Granada camp in Colorado, where his wife was a teacher. Lange is best known for her Depression-era photos; much of her documentation of the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans was impounded by the US government until after the war. Though fairly common institutionally, no other copies are offered for sale at the time of listing. Illustrated with photographs by Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, Francis Stewart, Joe McLelland and Tom Parker.…

Public Proclamation No. 6, signed in type by John L. DeWitt of the notorious Western Defense Command during World War II, setting a curfew for all persons of Japanese ancestry in the California exclusion zones and setting the groundwork for the imminent incarceration of all such persons in that area. The proclamation's seven articles require that: "all alien Japanese and persons of Japanese ancestry who are within the said California portion of Military Area No. 2, be and they are hereby prohibited from leaving that area for any purpose"; "No person of Japanese ancestry, whether alien or non-alien, who is now outside of Military Area No. 1 or outside of the said California portion of Military Area No. 2, shall enter either of said areas unless expressly authorized to do so by this headquarters"; and that "The hours between 8p.m. and 6a.m. are hereby designated as the hours of curfew.All persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien.shall, during the hours of curfew, be within their places of residence.At all times other than during the hours of curfewall such persons shall be not more than 10 miles from their place of residence." Articles 4 and 5 exempt hospital patients, orphans, and the deaf or blind from the preceding orders, and permit persons of Japanese ancestry to visit post offices or courts which are more than ten miles from their homes. Should any hope of relief have remained among California residents, the sixth article of this proclamation squelches them: "All alien Japanese and all persons of Japanese ancestry will be excluded from said California portion of Military Area No. 2 by future orders or proclamations of this Headquarters." The National Park Service's official report on the Manzanar Relocation Center describes this proclamation and its aftermath as follows: "On June 2, 1942, a second stage of the government's Japanese evacuation program began when, by Public Proclamation No. 6, DeWitt ordered the exclusion of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese ancestry from the California portion of Military Area No. 2 on the grounds of military necessity.The first civilian exclusion order [No. 100] for this area was issued on June 27, and by August 8 all persons of Japanese ancestry had been removed from the eastern part of California. "Analysis of this second exclusion decision belies the lame military rationale on which it was presumably based. The eastern boundary of California lies more than 100 miles east of Military Area No. 1 at the Oregon border. If there had been a general decision to exclude the ethnic Japanese from forests and mountains, why had they been allowed to resettle in Military Area No. 2? Morton Grodzins, an authority on the Japanese evacuation has concluded that this second exclusion decision was another example of the Western Defense Command's adoption of an unsound military rationale to carry out the program of politicians, agriculturalists, and agitators in eastern California who were determined to remove all ethnic Japanese from the state. "Whatever the motivation, this second exclusion decision had two principal results. The voluntary evacuees who had resettled in eastern California were uprooted a second time, and, by August 8, 1942, everyone of Japanese descent had been expelled from the entire state of California except for those under guard at the Manzanar and Tule Lake relocation centers and a small handful under constant supervision in hospitals and prisons. The anti-Japanese forces in California had finally triumphed in their historic crusade." This proclamation was followed by No. 7 on June 8, and "With the implementation of Public Proclamations Nos. 6 and 7, the compulsory evacuation of Japanese Americans from the west coast was completed" (Unrau). One of the most important official steps in the forced relocation of Japanese Americans from California, and evidence of the harsh restrictions which were enforced even prior to incarceration. Harlan D. Unrau, The Evacuation and Relocation of Persons of Japanese Ancestry During World War II: A Historical Study of the Manzanar War Relocation Center (National Parks Service, 1996) pp.64-66. Single bifolium. Outer leaves tanned. Very good plus.…

Condizione: Near Fine. An annual yearbook documenting the residents at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Hunt Idaho. Bound in the original dark blue cloth stamped in blind. Near Fine with rubbing to extremities, light soiling to rear. Former detainee/owner's name on front pastedown "Margaret [Masako] Tomoguchi 38-12 Hunt, Idaho", and several instances of red underlining throughout. Depicted in this yearbook are various employment divisions and recreational activities including ikebana flower arranging and cheerful Christmas celebrations. Included are black of white photos of each block and barrack members by name, including Tomoguchi's. Tomoguchi was ten years old when she and her parents, Tomoji & Ayako, were initially sent to Camp Harmony at the Puyallup Assembly Center and then later relocated to Minidoka.…

[Japanese American] [Civil Rights] [World War II] United States Reports, Volume 323, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1944. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1945. First edition. 845 pages. Large hardcover volume in original government cloth binding; issued without dust jacket. Official Supreme Court volume containing Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), one of the most consequential and widely condemned decisions in the history of American constitutional law. Decided during World War II, the case upheld the conviction of Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, a Japanese American citizen who refused to comply with the military exclusion order requiring people of Japanese ancestry to leave designated areas of the West Coast. The decision became the principal judicial symbol of the federal government's wartime exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans and of the constitutional failure to protect individual rights in the face of racial prejudice and claims of military necessity. Following Executive Order 9066, military authorities imposed exclusion orders that ultimately resulted in the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of them American citizens. Korematsu deliberately violated the exclusion order and challenged his conviction on constitutional grounds. His case reached the Supreme Court alongside other challenges to the government's wartime treatment of Japanese Americans. Writing for the 6-3 majority, Justice Hugo Black acknowledged that legal restrictions directed at a single racial group were "immediately suspect" and subject to the "most rigid scrutiny," yet nevertheless concluded that the exclusion order was justified by what the Court accepted as wartime military necessity. The ruling did not expressly uphold the constitutionality of detention itself; rather, it sustained the exclusion order under which Korematsu had been convicted. That distinction is legally important, although the decision became inseparable historically from the larger program of Japanese American removal and incarceration. The dissents were extraordinary in their condemnation of the government's action. Justice Frank Murphy characterized the exclusion policy as falling into the "ugly abyss of racism," while Justice Robert Jackson warned of the lasting danger created when the Supreme Court validated an unconstitutional military measure, writing that the principle would thereafter lie "about like a loaded weapon" available to future authorities claiming urgent necessity. Decades later, evidence emerged demonstrating that government officials had withheld or suppressed information undermining claims that Japanese Americans represented a military threat. Korematsu's conviction was vacated by a federal district court in 1983 through a writ of coram nobis, although that proceeding did not itself overturn the Supreme Court's 1944 precedent. The Supreme Court finally repudiated Korematsu by name in Trump v. Hawaii (2018). Although the Court upheld the presidential travel restrictions at issue in that separate case, Chief Justice John Roberts declared that Korematsu "was gravely wrong the day it was decided" and stated that the decision "has no place in law under the Constitution." The repudiation came nearly seventy-four years after the original ruling contained in the present volume. As the official contemporary printing of the Supreme Court's decisions for the October 1944 term, this volume preserves Korematsu within its original judicial context rather than as a later reprint or retrospective account. The case stands as a defining document in the history of Japanese American incarceration, wartime civil liberties, racial discrimination, and the limits of judicial protection during periods of national crisis. Original cloth binding with previous owner's stamp and library card to front pastedown. Binding sound and text clean. Overall very good condition.…

Condizione: Very Good. Original dark blue/black cloth stamped in blind. Very Good. Old tape with holograph Japanese characters on paper to spine and rear cover; tape reinforcements to inner hinges. Owner name (Frank M. Tomori) and family number to verso of front free endpaper, several holograph markings at rear section, several newsclippings taped to rear page, and Tomori's 1973 markings to rear free endpaper. An annual yearbook documenting the residents at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho, showing each block, and various employment divisions and recreational activities.…

Condizione: Very Good. Original silver gelatin press photograph. 7"x9". Captioned on back on mounted label, "Parkville, Mo., American-born Japanese students at Park College, Parkville, Mo., take part in flag-raising ceremony and calmly continue studies there despite protests of citizens of Platte County, Mo., who believe they should be interned. [.]" The college president is shown raising the flag as six students named on the back look on. Very Good with a small amount of label adhesion to the bottom the image.…

Condizione: Very Good. Original silver gelatin press image, 9.25" x 7. A very early image of Japanese Americans responding to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the rising anti-Japanese sentiment in the Untied States, with the date of "Dec 15 1941" rubber-stamped to verso. In the days immediately after Japan's December 7, 1941 attack, local defense councils on the West Coast implemented new identification paper requirements for Japanese Americans. Clipping glues to verso of image reads" Anxious to establish their status as United States citizens and escape the laws restricting Japanese nationals, many American-born Japanese Sunday flocked to the Multnomah County courthouse, there they received special identification papers. A portion of the crowd which applied for recognition is shown above answering questions and being fingerprinted by the city and county officers. County officials estimated that 1000 were eligible for papers in Portland." Very Good.…

Condizione: Very Good. Original silver gelatin press photograph. 8.5" x 6.75". Among the most chilling images of propaganda, casting the forced detention and relocation of Japanese Americans as a fun trip to summer camp. Press caption on reverse reading "These young Japanese are ready to leave homes in Los Angeles for new homes and new adventure in Manzanar Alien Reception Center, Owens Valley, California. Here the government is providing farm land and living quarters for those having to evacuate strategic defense areas in and near Los Angeles. These young folks will help make way for the thousands that will follow in the next few months." Very Good with some waviness to the image from the caption label glued to the rear, light general wear.…

[ff. 24]. Aida was born in Japan in 1880 and first came to Canada in 1907, living in Cumberland, Vancouver, and again in Cumberland where he owned four properties including a tailor shop, until he was evacuated in April, 1942. He stayed at Hastings Park for five months before being moved the interior housing centre of New Denver in the Kootenays. There he remained in detention for four years until he was released and able to relocate to Toronto. Aida was one of some 21,000 Japanese Canadians living in British Columbia detained and dispossessed under the War Measures Act following the attack on Pearl Harbour. The papers document the seizure and forced sale of Aida's properties and personal possessions at auction, all itemized with prices realized, in four typed letters, dating from 1945 to 1948, from the Canadian Department Of The Secretary of State, Office of the Custodian, Japanese Evacuation Section in Vancouver, B.C. Also included here are Aida's 1911 Japanese Passport, his 1947 request for compensation, his 1949 application for naturalization papers, and his 1951 Certificate of Canadian Citizenship.…

Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. [iv], 59 pp. Gray stapled wraps. Very Good+ with light wear, crease to final page. A rare legal history of the War Relocation Authority, which managed the forced confinement of people of Japanese ancestry in America during World War II, as well as their return to civilian life with the commencement of the war. It outlines the government response to the Korematsu case as well as the entire program's overall claims to constitutionality.…

Condizione: Good. First Edition. First edition. [iv], 82 pp. Gray stapled wraps. Good with closed tear to top of front wrap and first page, very slightly to following page; wraps toned and lightly worn; former owner's name written on front cover. A rare history of the War Relocation Authority, which managed the forced confinement of people of Japanese ancestry in America during World War II, as well as their return to civilian life with the commencement of the war.…

Condizione: Fine. First Edition. First edition. 7 pp. single-sided. Yellow sheets, corner staple bound. A Fine copy with faint rusting to staple and typical faint offsetting around mimeographed text. A very rare document in excellent condition. A list of the different types of groups and associations people of Japanese descent might belong to, compiled for the War Relocation Authority to aid in their internment of Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast.…

Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment Cases. San Francisco: Asian Law Caucus & Committee to Reverse the Wartime Internment Cases, 1984. Broadside. 8.5" x 14". Original 1984 benefit screening poster for Unfinished Business, a landmark documentary film by Oscar-winning director Steven Okazaki, exploring the wrongful internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the legal redress efforts that followed. Hosted at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts and sponsored by the Asian Law Caucus and the Committee to Reverse the Wartime Internment Cases, the poster announces a special premiere event featuring three men who famously challenged the legality of their incarceration: Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui. The stark black-and-white illustration by artist Nancy Yoshihara depicts a barbed wire-encircled Japanese American family, a haunting symbol of collective trauma. Above, a powerful endorsement by Studs Terkel reads: "Unfinished Business is more than a deeply moving film. It is more than a recounting of our country's most shameful moment. It is a powerful warning that hysteria, bigotry, ignorance and moral cowardice demeans us all." Below, the event details highlight the film's focus on the decades-long legal battle waged by these civil rights pioneers, whose wartime convictions were eventually overturned. Some horizontal fold lines, with some light creasing, overall very good condition. An exceptionally scarce piece of Asian American civil rights ephemera marking the emergence of public reckoning with Japanese American incarceration in the prelude to the 1988 Civil Liberties Act. Scarce.…

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, with James D. Houston and John Korty. Farewell to Manzanar screenplay, 1975, documents the translation of Japanese American incarceration experience into widely circulated visual narrative during the postwar period of increased public reckoning with World War II civil liberties violations. Adapted from Wakatsuki Houston's 1973 memoir, the screenplay presents the forced removal and confinement of a Nisei family at Manzanar War Relocation Center following the issuance of Executive Order 9066. The text situates familial dislocation, identity conflict, and state authority within the lived experience of incarceration, including the destabilization of family structure, the emotional decline of the father, and the enlistment of a brother in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Produced at a moment when Japanese American narratives were entering educational curricula and national media, the screenplay provides primary evidence for the study of how wartime incarceration was reframed for public audiences in the 1970s. Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, with James D. Houston and John Korty. Farewell to Manzanar. Screenplay. June 4, 1975. One script housed in a blue plastic three ring binder with front and back cover pages; approximately 177 pages; measures about 8.5 x 11 inches. Title page marked "#70" in pencil; cover page bears a label with the film title. The screenplay follows Jeanne Wakatsuki's childhood experience beginning with her family's removal from Santa Monica, California, through confinement at Manzanar and eventual postwar resettlement. Narrative elements include tensions surrounding Japanese American identity, the father's imprisonment and subsequent emotional deterioration, and the family's effort to reconstruct life after release amid persistent anti Japanese prejudice. The screenplay corresponds to the 1976 film adaptation starring Pat Morita and James Saito, which received two Primetime Emmy nominations and was awarded the Humanitas Prize, reflecting its role in shaping public understanding of incarceration history. Its emergence in the 1970s aligns with broader movements for redress and historical recognition that culminated in federal acknowledgment of injustice in subsequent decades. As both literary adaptation and production document, the script supports research into Asian American history, memory studies, and the institutionalization of incarceration narratives in education and media. Minor pencil markings to cover and title pages; otherwise clean and intact; overall very good condition.…

Small group of correspondence that provides a glimpse into the lives of two Japanese Americans impacted by the forced imprisonment of more than 120,000 persons of Japanese descent during World War II. Teiko Ishida (1916-98) was the first woman appointed to the national board of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), in 1939, and the first woman appointed national secretary, a position she held from 1943 to 1945. Most of the letters in this grouping were written by colleagues and friends to Ishida during the war years and track her movements along with the JACL offices. Ishida played an influential role in JACL policy during the war and led the return of the JACL to the West Coast in 1945 with the re-establishment of the national headquarters in San Francisco. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Ishida and other JACL members mobilized to enlist Japanese American support for the war effort. Ishida joined several JACL members in persuading Japanese-born community members to register as "enemy aliens" as a demonstration of their own patriotism. In April 1942, when it was announced Japanese Americans would be forcibly removed from the West Coast, Ishida was hired as the office secretary at the new national headquarters in Salt Lake City. When her male co-workers enlisted in the U.S. Army, the JACL selected Ishida as acting national secretary for the East and sent her to open a new office in New York City, where she advocated for expanding college admissions to Japanese American students and for the establishment of a special Japanese American unit in the U.S. Army. A 1943 letter in this collection from her friend "Frank" addresses her departure from Salt Lake City: "Now that you are gone, I appreciate more strongly the friendliness you extended to me, and I realize more that you were a person who represented strength and good judgement." Another friend wrote after hearing of her move to New York City and remarked on the situation where she lived: "Ann Arbor (Michigan) is a community of the atmosphere of Berkeley only it is smaller in size. About 300 Nisei have resettled here and the largest groups are employed in the dormitories and the university hospital." A Japanese friend in the military wrote in October 1943 that there were rumors about his combat team: "One of the most likely is that we are to leave for overseas service in February or March. But we have plenty of rumors. This place is as bad as any relocation camp for rumors." Ishida is also credited with masterminding the reopening of the JACL offices in San Francisco, receiving permission to return even before the U.S. Army lifted the order excluding Japanese from the West Coast on January 2, 1945. The next day, Ishida opened the new JACL national headquarters in San Francisco, although publication of the Pacific Citizen and various functions remained in Salt Lake City. Due to health reason, the JACL announced Ishida's resignation as acting national secretary on June 21, 1945. Three of the letters in this group concern her resignation and praised her work. "Your efforts are coming to fruition and the name of Teiko Ishida is heard in almost every community I visit," one colleague wrote. In December 1945, she married Michael "Mickey" Kuroiwa (1916-99). Born in Arizona to Japanese-born parents, Kuroiwa was working at a grocery store when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in October 1941, just weeks before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. During the war, individual commanders were given the option of discharging Japanese American soldiers or assigning them to "harmless duties". The Selective Service stopped accepting Japanese Americans in early 1942 on the grounds they were "not acceptable to the armed forces because of nationality or ancestry". Kuroiwa was part of the Service Command Unit (SCU) 1941 in Tracy, California, the Army's supply system, which performed "housekeeping" functions in support of the war effort such as the issuance of Army serial nu.…

Japanese and Japanese American photograph archive with wartime confinement images, c.1942 to the 1960s, documents Japanese subjects across barrack housing, customs and immigration processing, international travel, integrated social life, and informal group outings. The dated portion of the group is anchored by two photographs signed en verso "August 1942," the same year Executive Order 9066 authorized military exclusion from the West Coast and the War Relocation Authority began administering the inland incarceration camps. Several photographs show later travel and social scenes. The photographs show the transition between wartime confinement imagery and later scenes of movement, border crossing, and social reintegration of Japanese American individuals. Photo archive of 15 silver gelatin photographs, ranging from 2.5 x 2.5 to 5 x 3.5 inches, United States and France, August 1942 to c. 1960s. The photographs show barrack like wooden buildings, drainage ditches, and internment camp infrastructure; one image shows a man standing before a long wooden building with laundry outside, while another shows a seated man on a wooden platform before a plain structure with screened or boarded windows. Two young Asian women stand on the porch of a similar building marked "B - A," a notation indicating a camp or block address. Other photographs show Asian men and women in travel settings, including a man beneath a "Customs immigration" sign with partial "depart" lettering, a group waiting outdoors near an airport or observation deck, and Japanese travelers in France street shopping. Later social images show a Japanese man at a formal dinner with white women, a large outdoor outing with mostly white participants and one Japanese man present, a group portrait on a bridge, men seated on a boat, and a group of suited men standing in a wooded area near a striped barrier. The August 1942 inscriptions place part of the group within the first months of Japanese American mass removal and confinement, when families were being transferred from temporary assembly centers to more permanent War Relocation Authority camps. The barrack images accord with the improvised housing, exposed walkways, drainage cuts, and block organization associated with that system. The travel photographs widen the record beyond confinement, showing Japanese or Japanese American subjects passing through customs, airports, French streets, and mixed social spaces in the years after wartime removal. Light surface wear, some curling, verso stamps, album adhesive residue, and occasional creasing; two versos signed "August 1942." Overall good condition. A vernacular record of Japanese and Japanese American presence across wartime confinement, border crossing, travel, and postwar social life. Signed.…

[Japanese Internment][WWII] Framed original broadside issued April 24, 1942 by the Western Defense Command enforcing Executive Order 9066 by the compulsory removal of Japanese Americans from a designated district of Los Angeles. The broadside directs "all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien" to present themselves for relocation, initiating their forced transfer to government custody. This document dates to the first phase of the federal mass incarceration program that uprooted more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, approximately two-thirds of whom were United States citizens. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 41 Large format broadside framed. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. San Francisco: U.S. Army, April 24, 1942. The notice mandates that a "responsible member of each family, and each individual living alone" report to a designated Civil Control Station between April 25 and April 26, 1942, and warns that failure to comply would result in criminal penalties under Public Law No. 503 and possible immediate apprehension. The text specifies the geographic boundaries of the exclusion zone within Los Angeles and outlines the administrative procedure for removal, including reporting instructions and compliance requirements. The exceptionally fast pace of mass incarceration is especially evident here, as the poster issued April 24 commands representatives to report immediately over the following two days for instruction, and mandates all Japanese and Japanese-Americans be vacated from the area by May 1, the following week. During this period, immigrants and citizens alike were suddenly ripped from their homes, schools, and jobs, forced to say good-bye to neighbors, loved ones, and pets, and pack whatever belongings were permitted by the U.S. government for internment of an indeterminate length of time. Posted publicly in affected neighborhoods across California, Oregon, and Washington, exclusion orders such as this were a key part of the first phase of Japanese American mass incarceration. They introduced military command into neighborhood-level enforcement and a suspension of civil liberties for the West Coast Japanese immigrant population. The order is dated less than five months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the U.S. was rapidly expanding federal emergency powers on the home front parallel to increasing involvement in WWII abroad. Exhibiting some damage including folds, creases, pinholes and several small tears at edges with a some in the center, many have been repaired with acid-free archival tape en verso. No loss to paper. Overall good condition. A rare and historically significant artifact of wartime racial profiling and a sobering reminder of the fragility of constitutional protections during times of crisis.…

[WWII] [Japanese American] Japanese American incarceration archive, circa 1940s, documenting the personal lives of Japanese American detainees at Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona and Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during World War II. Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two thirds of them United States citizens. This archive provides direct material evidence of communication and daily life in the War Relocation Authority camp system. An addressed envelope, postmarked February 20, 1943, connects two of the ten major incarceration sites, indicating a maintained interpersonal network across camps. Photographs in this archive depict a young Japanese American woman in Western dress posed outdoors, with barracks visible in several backgrounds, and include an image of a young girl on a see-saw before rows of camp housing, illustrating the family and youth experience in the camps. Archive of 8 pieces, including 7 photographs, mostly black and white with one color, and 1 post stamped envelope addressed to "Mrs. Asako Kudari" [sic] at Block 15 21 F, Heart Mountain Center, Wyoming. Circa 1940s. The envelope bears a purple United States stamp depicting an eagle above the slogan "Win the War" and is postmarked February 20, 1943, from Block 44 3A, Poston Relocation Center, Arizona. Photographs measure approximately 6.5 x 3.5 inches to 2.25 x 3.25 inches. Several images show detainees with camp barracks in the background; others portray a young woman with a Japanese American man wearing glasses, suggesting prewar memories, though no inscription confirms dating. Poston, located in Yuma County, Arizona, was the largest of the War Relocation Authority camps, while Heart Mountain in Park County, Wyoming, confined nearly 14,000 people at its peak. Heart Mountain became a focal point of organized resistance to the military draft of Nisei men in 1944, when 85 young men and seven leaders of the Fair Play Committee were prosecuted under the Selective Service Act after challenging the legality of conscripting citizens while their civil rights were suspended. The present archive predates that confrontation but documents the correspondence networks and ordinary domestic life of the immigrants and citizens detained. Minor edge wear and light surface handling to photographs; envelope with expected postal folds and moderate age toning; overall very good condition. An archive linking two major incarceration sites.…

Japanese American communities photographed across the twentieth century document the transformation of Japanese American identity from immigrant settlement and economic success to wartime incarceration and later postwar memory. Eleven press photographs dating from 1918 through the late twentieth century depict Japanese immigrants, Japanese American families, and individuals whose lives were shaped by the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The images trace a historical arc beginning with early immigrant life and professional success in California, continuing through wartime detention at assembly centers, and concluding with portraits of former internees reflecting on the experience decades later. Archive of eleven black and white silver gelatin press photographs measuring approximately 6 x 8 inches to 8 x 10 inches. Three photographs date from the period before World War II, including a 1918 image of three Japanese immigrants in Los Angeles raising drinks toward the camera and a 1931 photograph of two girls in traditional dress associated with a chrysanthemum cultivation family connected to the development of the chrysanthemum industry in Redwood City, California and its "Kiku Matsuri" festival. Another prewar image shows two Japanese American nurses accompanied by two men, possibly physicians, seated before a Packard automobile. Several wartime photographs depict barracks associated with the Fresno Assembly Center, identified through stamps on the versos. One 1943 photograph shows Mrs. Yoshiye Abe, identified as a Nisei woman who had been relocated from Fresno through the Santa Anita Assembly Center and later worked in Denver, stitching an American flag at a flag factory. Additional images show converted horse stables used as temporary housing for displaced Japanese Americans during the early phase of wartime incarceration. Later press photographs portray former internees reflecting on their experiences, including Allen Hida sharing photographs from camp years, Dr. Lawrence Yatsu photographed in a laboratory setting, and Yoshimi Yamamoto identified in a caption referencing incarceration in an American wartime camp. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States government forcibly removed more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast under the authority of Executive Order 9066. Many families were first confined in temporary assembly centers such as the Fresno Assembly Center before being transferred to longer term camps including Manzanar and Tule Lake. The photographs in this archive juxtapose images of early twentieth century immigrant achievement with wartime displacement and later reflections on incarceration by Japanese Americans who experienced the camps as children or young adults. As a group the images illustrate the shifting social and political status of Japanese Americans during the twentieth century and the enduring legacy of wartime civil liberties violations. Eleven press photographs measuring approximately 6 x 8 inches to 8 x 10 inches. Minor handling wear typical of press photographs with captions and agency markings on versos. Overall condition very good.…

[WWII][Japanese American] Photo archive of Japanese American families and children confined in United States War Relocation Authority camps during the Second World War. These images, taken during the 1940s incarceration of approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry following the issuance of Executive Order 9066, capture informal scenes of family life in the camp system that held both immigrants and American-born citizens. More than two-thirds of those imprisoned were United States citizens, including thousands of children whose early years were spent inside the camp environment. The photographs show the everyday domestic and social life in incarceration centers, recording children, parents, and small family groups living within the controlled environment established by the War Relocation Authority. Archive of seven original photographs including five silver gelatin prints and two photographic negatives dating to the World War II incarceration period. The images depict small groups and individual portraits of Japanese Americans in relocation centers. One group photograph shows six children seated on a wooden fence with rows of barracks-style housing structures visible behind them. Another image depicts two mothers seated on a wooden bench with their toddler-aged sons in front of a wooded camp building; the verso is inscribed identifying the women as "Mrs. Chyoko Okita" and "Mrs. Hayashima." A school-style portrait of a young girl includes her name written on the recto. Two negatives show adult figures outside built environments, including one man standing in a suit before a brick building and another image showing a man posed with three women beside an automobile with leafless trees in the background. The photographs range in size from approximately 1.5 × 2.25 inches to 2.5 × 3.5 inches. Japanese American incarceration camps held entire family units between 1942 and 1945, producing a social landscape in which children attended school and families attempted to maintain ordinary routines. Approximately 6,000 children were born in War Relocation Authority centers during the war years, and many young children spent their earliest developmental years entirely within the camp system. Vernacular photographs such as these offer rare glimpses of daily life beyond official government photography, preserving personal moments of families and children navigating incarceration under wartime policy. Minor edge wear to several photographs with otherwise clear images and strong tonal contrast; negatives well preserved. Overall very good condition. An evocative record of Japanese American family life during U.S. internment. Signed.…