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Densho は、数百時間分のビデオ証言と数万枚もの歴史的画像を収集しています。このシリーズでは、Densho デジタル アーカイブの一次資料にスポットを当て、日系アメリカ人の歴史のテーマを説明するアーカイブから厳選した作品を紹介します。
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Profile in Courage: George Sakato and a Belated Medal of Honor
2009年11月11日 • Denshō
“I’m no hero, but I wear it for the guys that didn’t come back.” — George “Joe” Sakato George T. Sakato is the great-great-great-grandson of a samurai. Perhaps that explains his father’s choice of a birth name. Sakato says, “Dad wanted to call me Jyotaro Sakato, after a sword-bearer for Musashi samurai.” But when the doctor submitted the vital statistics for the baby, “Jyotaro” became “George.” An unassuming man, Densho’s interviewee says simply, “All my life I’ve been called Joe.” …
Freeing Testimonies: The Redress Hearings
2007年10月10日 • Denshō
"I am very happy that the government of America is looking into the past. I think it takes a great country to admit its mistakes and make proper restitution."--Masao Takahashi In retrospect, the success of the Japanese American redress movement seems like a historical inevitability. In reality, the struggle for justice stretched over three decades and was anything but assured. Just as the mass removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans without charge or trial was itself not inevitable,1 the …
World War II Volunteers
2006年11月8日 • Denshō
The nisei veterans have been called everything from heroes to cultural icons to saviors of the Japanese American community. Stories of the rescue of the "Lost Battalion" and the breaking of the Gothic Line are so harrowing and so poignant that it is easy to see why they hold an iconic status in our community. Yet, if we go back to 1943 – in the weeks following an announcement by the U.S. Government that opened the military to Japanese Americans …
