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Dave Tatsuno Collection (91.74.1-8) (Item 109 of 112, “Dave Tatsuno Collection (91.74) [109 of 112]”)
Collected by: HNRC

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 15 of 16, “Naturalization Ceremony, June 3, 1960”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

The McCarran-Walter Immigration and Naturalization Act passed in 1952, allowing Issei to apply for and receive American citizenship after so many years.

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 provided for an ...

２　移民を授業する　－　日系アメリカ人の記憶から学ぶ: 　２ エド・イチヤマさん (Item 5 of 6)
Collected by: team-nikkei-usa
私の父は後に帰化して市民権をえる事になりました。その時、本名のハチジロウではアメリカ人らしくないのでホース（人気TVキャラクターの名前）やワキ（床屋時代の常連だったポルトガル人の名前）に名前を変えようかと言いました。馬・イチヤマなんておかしいですが、ウイリアムやヘンリーはもっとおかしいと考えました。でも、結局、アメリカ人である事は名前の問題ではありません。心の問題です。父はアメリカ人として誇りをもって人生を終えました。私もアメリカは素晴らしい国だと思います。日系人の強制収容に対し、きちんと謝罪をしたからです。

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 14 of 16, “Statement Published in the Hood River News, December 22, 1944”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

At the war's end, families faced difficult decisions on where to go next -- many had to begin anew. Forty percent of the Nikkei community members returned to the ...

２　移民を授業する　－　日系アメリカ人の記憶から学ぶ: 　２ エド・イチヤマさん (Item 4 of 6)
Collected by: team-nikkei-usa
　家族の話に戻りましょう。私の妻も義母も当時西海岸に住んでいたので、「敵性外国人」として強制収容所に送られました。日系人であるという理由でアメリカ市民である二世も送られました。1944年に妻の家族はオレゴン州に戻りましたが、日系人への偏見は続いていました。

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 12 of 16, “Hood River, OR, 9:40 a.m., May 13, 1942”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

Some of the Japanese in the valley were at the Japanese Community Hall on Sunday, December 7, 1941, preparing for a variety show when news of the Pearl Harbor bombing ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 11 of 16, “Fourth of July, Parkdale, OR, ca. 1935”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

The Issei felt their roots sinking into the American soil. Their children were American citizens. Integrating into the mainstream of American life was not always easy despite the hard work ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 9 of 16, “Hauling Asparagus, ca. 1935”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

It takes about nine years for apple trees to bear enough fruit for commercial harvest. Families planted their orchards, and put in strawberries for quick cash crops.

In 1920, 351 Japanese ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 5 of 16, “Clearing Land of Timber, Hood River, OR, ca. 1927”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

Issei were also hired to clear land for landowners. After timber harvest, stumps were pulled with horses, dynamite, and hard labor to prepare fields for planting. By 1905, as ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 4 of 16, “Kanshichi Itano”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

The first Issei to arrive in the Hood River Valley were hired on contract as railroad laborers. Kanshichi Itano and his Japanese crew built the Mt. Hood Railroad from the ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 3 of 16, “Loading Hay on the Hamada Farm”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

Some came from traditional farming backgrounds in Japan, but not everyone had experience. They took what work they could get. Mostly young, single men, the first Issei were employed at ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 2 of 16, “Working the Orchard”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

The primary Japanese farming communities of the Mid-Columbia region were located in Oregon's Hood River valley at Dee, Odell, Parkdale, Pine Grove, and Oak Grove. In Wasco County, farming took ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 1 of 16, “Hamada Family Orchard, Parkdale, OR, ca. 1920.”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

Japanese began to arrive in the Hood River area by 1900. Hopes and dreams brought them to this verdant valley along the Columbia River. The promise of a better life ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 10 of 16, “Hood River Community Hall, 1929”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

Completed in 1926, the Hood River Japanese Community Hall became a central place for community life. Plays, musicals, talent shows, Japanese picture shows, community meetings, Christmas and New Year's parties, ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 8 of 16, “Strawberry packing shed, Hood River, OR, ca. 1916”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

Agriculture is a complex business. Growers must contend with the vagaries of constantly changing climate and markets. Issei joined the local apple growers associations to facilitate getting their crops to ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 7 of 16, “Dee, OR, ca. early 1920s”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

As livelihoods became more certain, men sent for their wives. The Issei women were often surprised by their circumstances but persevered, working alongside their husbands, often in very rustic conditions. ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 6 of 16, “The Niguma Variety Store, Hood River, OR”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

The Niguma Variety Store opened in Hood River in 1905 on the corner of First and Oak Streets, and included a mailhouse, Japanese social center, boardinghouse and brothel. Brothers Renichi ...

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Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area (Item 16 of 16, “Picking Strawberries near Mt. Hood, Oregon”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

Many Nikkei families still farm in the Hood River area, but the dynamics have changed. Children choose other lines of work. People work at professional jobs and keep the farm ...

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Nihonmachi: Portland's Japantown (Item 9 of 9, “Evacuation Sale, Teikoku Company”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

Portland’s bustling Japantown disappeared abruptly in the spring of 1942. After World War Two, many Nisei did return to the Portland area. Nihonmachi was never the same again, but over ...