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Mike M. Masaoka papers, 1931-1991

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Masaoka, Mike, 1915-1991
Title
Mike M. Masaoka papers
Dates
1931-1991 (inclusive)
Quantity
43 linear feet, (88 boxes)
Collection Number
MS 0656
Summary
Mike M. Masaoka served as National Secretary (1941-1943) and Washington lobbyist (1945-1953) for the Japanese American Citizens' League. He was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II and served as president of the Japan-America Society. He was active in issues of immigration reform and compensation for victims of wartime internment. The collection includes scrapbooks, yearbooks, correspondence, court and congressional documents, articles, oral history transcripts, and autobiography of Mike M. Masaoka which document his life as a Japanese American citizen. This collection documents the history and problems of Japanese American immigration, evacuation and internment during World War II, efforts to seek redress for damages, the Japanese American Citizens' League, minority issues of Japanese Americans, Japanese trade and culture, and Hawaiian statehood.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Four original letters have been removed and placed in Reserve. Access must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must remain with the items if being used. Photocopies are available in the collection for research use.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Mike Masaru Masaoka was born in Fresno, California, in 1915, the fourth of eight children of immigrant parents. A few years after his birth, his father moved the Masaoka family to Salt Lake City. It was there that he earned the nickname "Mike" while attending Salt Lake City schools. Later, he had his name legally changed. After graduating from West High School, he attended the University of Utah while working in his family's produce business and local restaurants. At both West and the University, he excelled in forensics. He was graduated from the University in 1937, after studying economics and political science.

Masaoka's first involvement with the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) occurred in 1938, when he attended an annual gathering of the organization. He became interested in the group's goal of organizing second-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, in efforts to counteract increasing discrimination. Masaoka quickly became a leader in the JACL after organizing the Intermountain District Council in Utah and Idaho. At the outbreak of the Second World War, the JACL's role as the leading representative organization for the Nisei took on new significance when coping with the government's decision to evacuate and intern all West Coast noncitizens and Americans of Japanese ancestry. As the JACL National Secretary, Masaoka was sent to Washington, D.C. in an effort to mitigate the effects of forced removal and work towards the elimination of the internment camps. Before leaving for Washington, though, Masaoka wed Etsu Mineta.

In addition to exerting influence on the United States government concerning the situation of Japanese Americans, while in Washington Masaoka also worked towards the reinstatement of military service for Japanese Americans. His efforts resulted in the formation of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Masaoka, along with his four brothers and many other Japanese American men, joined the 442nd, which served with honor in military campaigns in Italy and France.

After returning from military service, the JACL appointed Masaoka as its Washington Representative, a post at which he served full-time until 1952, and part-time until 1972. During his years as a lobbyist, Masaoka worked to reform immigration and naturalization laws, resulting in the repeal of the 1924 Japanese Exclusion Act and the abolishment of the National Origins Quota Immigration System. In addition, he lobbied for reparations for losses suffered by Japanese Americans who had been relocated to the internment camps, which assisted in passage of the Evacuation Claims Act of 1948. In the 1980s, he also played a role in the proceedings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, which investigated the topic of further redress. Throughout his years in Washington, Masaoka also supported passage of civil rights legislation, and was active in development of smooth Japan-U.S. diplomatic and economic relations. In addition to his lobbying efforts on behalf of the JACL, in 1953 Masaoka established his own consulting firm, Mike Masaoka Associates. His clients included both American and Japanese manufacturing firms, as well as a variety of trade associations.

Masaoka was involved in a variety of Nisei veterans associations, including the "Go For Broke" National Veterans Association. He was the first Nisei elected President of the Japan-America Society, a group with which he maintained a long association. In 1970, the Mike Masaoka Distinguished Public Service Award was established by the JACL as a way to recognize individuals who had made significant contributions to the well-being of the Japanese American community. He was the JACL "Nisei of the Biennium" in 1950, and the JACL has established the Mike M. Masaoka Fellowship Fund to develop leaders in public service at the national level. In 1968, Masaoka was awarded the Third Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan. In 1983, he was honored with the Second Class Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Emperor.

Masaoka's autobiography, They Call Me Moses Masaoka (written with Bill Hosokawa), was published by Morrow in 1987. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1991, after being plagued with heart problems during the previous decade. He was preceded in death by his two adopted children, and survived by his wife and one grandchild.

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Content Description

The Mike M. Masaoka papers (1931-1991) provide information about the personal and professional activities of Mike Masaoka (1915-1991) and document the wide-ranging experiences of Japanese Americans since before the Second World War. The materials are divided into twelve sections. Within each section, documents are arranged chronologically. Undated documents, along with news clippings and miscellaneous pieces, conclude each section.

Section I contains material relating to Masaoka's personal life. These reflect his activities as a youth in Salt Lake City (scrapbooks, school papers, and yearbooks); his travels to Japan during the 1950s (an itinerary, and souvenirs); and awards and recognition given to him in the later part of his life. Included is a copy of his autobiography, They Call Me Moses Masaoka. There are also materials related to the Masaoka family, several transcripts of interviews of Masaoka, and business documents.

Correspondence to and from Mike Masaoka is arranged chronologically in Section II. Included is correspondence written by or addressed to Masaoka as an official of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). The correspondence, besides covering topics of a personal nature, is concerned with various issues important to Japanese Americans, including the topics of sections IV through XI. Correspondence found attached to another document remains with that document. Beginning in 1946, Masaoka maintained a handwritten record of daily activities, and these notebooks and note cards are located in Section III. These logs have been arranged chronologically, but are not indexed.

Section IV of the collection contains items concerned with the immigration activities and citizenship status of Japanese Americans. The materials discuss the early immigration of the Issei, battles over deportation, and renunciation of citizenship during the Second World War and later. Masaoka's jobbying activities in these areas made a significant impact on Congressional lawmaking during the 1950s, and this is reflected in documents produced by the U. S. Congress.

Items concerned with the Second World War evacuation of Japanese Americans from the west coast of the United States are gathered in Section V. Included are documents produced by the War Relocation Authority, the government agency created to handle the evacuation, and papers reflecting the activities of internees and government workers in the relocation centers. Any material, regardless of date, memorializing or discussing the War Relocation Authority, relocation center activities, and the impact of internment on Japanese Americans during the Second World War and afterwards, is located in Section V.

Section VI contains documents recording the activities of Japanese Americans in the United States armed forces, especially during the Second World War. Masaoka was one of these people, serving in Europe as part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and was later involved in veterans groups. Included are commemorative materials and documents reflecting the activities of veterans' organizations, memorial service memorabilia, and articles discussing the involvement of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in the Second World War.

Documents produced as a result of efforts to gain reparations for losses suffered by Japanese Americans as a result of relocation and internment during the Second World War are located in Section VII of the collection. Included are documents produced by the Japanese American Citizens League as a result of their efforts in lobbying for reparations. A significant portion of this section is devoted to documents stemming from the activities of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.

Section VIII contains records of, and documents published by, the Japanese American Citizens League, with which Masaoka was involved most of his life. These records are of a general, administrative nature. Documents which discuss the activities of the Japanese American Citizens League in specific areas, such as redress or immigration & naturalization, are filed in other sections of the collection.

Materials in Section IX consist of documents discussing and recording the experience of Americans of Japanese descent in areas outside of those covered in other sections of this collection. Topics include discrimination, demographics, culture, ethnicity, and general history. These subjects are reflected in articles, court documents, state election guides, exhibition brochures, and historical reports. The activities of political and cultural organizations are also represented. Section IX also contains documents reflecting the experiences of other religious, national, and racial minority groups in America.

The documents in Section X are concerned with Japanese trade, government, culture, and relations with the United States. Japan's diplomatic and economic relations with the United States are discussed in the form of articles and treaties. Many of the items in this section reflect on Masaoka's lobbying business, which actively pursued Japanese clients.

Section XI contains documents relating to Hawaiian statehood, while Section XII contains miscellaneous and oversize documents. Honors won by Masaoka in forensic competition, and medals relating to his military service, are also included here.

Addenda to the collection includes correspondence, veterans organization materials, Japanese American Citizens League papers, yearbooks, and scrapbooks.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Boxes 1-81 were donated in 1992-1993 (40 linear feet).

Boxes 82-85 were donated in 1994 (1.5 linear feet).

Addendum boxes 1-3 were found in 1998 (1.5 linear feet).

Separated Materials

See also the Mike M. Masaoka photograph collection (P0544) and audio-visual materials (A0351) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Processing Note

Processed by Mark Jensen and Karen Carver in 1993-1999.

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Related Materials

Forms part of the Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archives.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • I: Personal

    The material in this series relates to Masaoka's personal life reflects his activities growing up in Salt Lake City (scrapbooks, school papers, and yearbooks); his travels to Japan during the 1950s (an itinerary and souvenirs); and awards and recognition given to him in the later part of his life. A copy of , his autobiography, is located in box 4, along with an addenda and associated papers. Also included in this series are materials stemming from familial relationships, several transcripts of interviews of Masaoka, business documents, biographical information about Masaoka, and paper memorabilia. Forensic and military service awards earned by Masaoka are stored in box 80 of this collection. Oversize memorabilia and award certificates are stored in box 81.

    • Description: Scrapbook
      Dates: circa 1931
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1-3
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Scrapbook
      Dates: circa 1931
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4-6
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: High School Papers
      Dates: circa 1931-1933
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7-11
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: West High School Yearbooks
      Dates: 1931; 1933
      Container: Box 1, Folder 12-13
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Forensic Orations
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box 1, Folder 14
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: "Guilty--The American Jury"

      Research paper written for a University of Utah English course.

      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box 1, Folder 15-16
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: M Men Manual and Handbook

      Published by the Mutual Improvement Associations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box 1, Folder 17
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Address Book
      Dates: circa 1942
      Container: Box 1, Folder 18
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Souvenirs
      Dates: circa 1952
      Container: Box 1, Folder 19
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Japan Souvenirs
      Dates: circa 1952
      Container: Box 1, Folder 20
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Magazine

      Japanese language publication.

      Dates: circa 1952
      Container: Box 1, Folder 21
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Japan Itinerary
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Hiroshima

      Souvenir items.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2-11
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Okinawa

      Souvenir items.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 2, Folder 12-13
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Appointment Calendars
      Dates: circa 1955; 1988
      Container: Box 2, Folder 14
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Testimonial

      Event program, donor lists, and other items relating to the Mike M. Masaoka Testimonial held in Chicago.

      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 2, Folder 15-17
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Funeral Programs

      Masaoka family services.

      Dates: 1970; 1984
      Container: Box 2, Folder 18
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Ambassadorship Recommendations
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 2, Folder 19
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Family Crest
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box 2, Folder 20
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Masaoka and Associates

      Company brochure.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 2, Folder 21
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Mike M. Masaoka Interview

      Transcript of an interview conducted by John Tateishi.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 2, Folder 22-26
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Mike M. Masaoka Interview

      Transcript of an interview done as part of a "Go For Broke" National Veteran's Association oral history project.

      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1-13
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: "Go For Broke" National Veterans Association

      Items recording Masaoka's involvement in this group.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 3, Folder 14
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: They Call Me Moses Masaoka

      Contracts, press releases, correspondence, news clippings, and other items relating to the publication of Masaoka's auto-biography.

      Dates: 1985-1987
      Container: Box 3, Folder 15-19
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: They Call Me Moses Masaoka

      By Mike Masaoka and Bill Hosokawa.

      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 3, Volume 1
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: They Call Me Moses Masaoka

      Addendum to Masaoka's autobiography.

      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 3, Folder 20
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Family Register
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 3, Folder 21
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Kai Rasmussen Memorial Booklet
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 3, Folder 22
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Wilson v. Amano

      Court documents for a bankruptcy case involving Mike and Etsu Masaoka.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 3, Folder 23
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Interview

      A transcript of an interview done by Deborah Lim as part of a Japanese American Citizens League project.

      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 3, Folder 24-25
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Mike M. Masaoka Distinguished Public Service Award
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 3, Folder 26
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Family Member Correspondence

      Correspondence involving Masaoka family members. For correspondence to and from Mike Masaoka, see boxes 5-10.

      Dates: 1946-1954; 1983; 1991
      Container: Box 4, Folder 1
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Biographical Data
      Container: Box 4, Folder 2
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Honors
      Container: Box 4, Folder 3
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Invitations

      Received by Mike Masaoka for various events.

      Container: Box 4, Folder 4
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Guest Lists

      For events occurring while traveling in Japan.

      Container: Box 4, Folder 5
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Mailing Lists
      Container: Box 4, Folder 6
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Notes
      Container: Box 4, Folder 7-13
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: News Clippings
      Dates: 1936-1991
      Container: Box 4, Folder 14-20
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 4, Folder 21
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: They Call Me Moses Masaoka Preliminary Drafts
      Dates: circa 1986
      Container: Box 4A
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: They Call Me Moses Masaoka Preliminary Drafts
      Dates: circa 1986
      Container: Box 4B
      Location: I: Personal
    • Description: Oral History Interview Transcripts

      The audio cassette recordings of these interviews are located in Audio/Visual Collection A0351, items 10-16.

      Container: Box 4C
      Location: I: Personal

  • II: Correspondence, 1947-1991

    Correspondence to and from Mike Masaoka is arranged chronologically in this series. Included is correspondence written by or addressed to Masaoka as an official of the Japanese American Citizens League. The correspondence, besides covering any topics of a personal nature, are concerned with the various issues important to Japanese Americans. These include the topics of sections IV through IX: immigration and naturalization; evacuation and internment; military service; redress; the JACL; Japanese culture; Japan-U.S. relations; and Hawaiian statehood.

    • Description: Correspondence

      Two original letters have been removed and placed in Reserve. Photocopied versions are available in the collection for access purposes. Access to the originals must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must remain with the items if being used.

      Dates: 1947-July 1952
      Container: Box 5
      Location: II: Correspondence, 1947-1991
    • Description: Correspondence
      Dates: July 1952-February 1957
      Container: Box 6
      Location: II: Correspondence, 1947-1991
    • Description: Correspondence

      A photograph attached to correspondence from Misoji Sakamoto in folder 20 has been removed to P0544. Two original letters have been removed and placed in Reserve. Photocopied versions are available in the collection for access purposes. Access to the originals must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must remain with the items if being used.

      Dates: March 1957-August 1978
      Container: Box 7
      Location: II: Correspondence, 1947-1991
    • Description: Correspondence

      Photographs attached to correspondence from Lee Hawkins in folder 3, and from Alice Kasai in folder 19, have been removed to P0544.

      Dates: October 1978-January 1984
      Container: Box 8
      Location: II: Correspondence, 1947-1991
    • Description: Correspondence

      A photograph attached to correspondence from Reiko Ono in folder 12 has been removed to P0544.

      Dates: January 1984-May 1988
      Container: Box 9
      Location: II: Correspondence, 1947-1991
    • Description: Correspondence
      Dates: May 1988-February 1991
      Container: Box 10
      Location: II: Correspondence, 1947-1991

  • III: Activity Log, 1946-1990

    Beginning in 1946, Masaoka maintained a handwritten record of daily activities, including correspondence, phone calls, and engagements. The entries he made are concerned with both business and personal matters. Initially, commercially produced index cards were used in this activity, but he latter switched to pocket-sized notebooks. These logs have been arranged chronologically, and are not indexed.

  • IV: Immigration and Citizenship

    The items in this series are concerned with the immigration activities and citizenship status of Japanese Americans. The materials discuss the early immigration of the Issei (first-generation Japanese Americans), as well as battles over deportation and renunciation of citizenship during the Second World War and later, including the case of "Tokyo Rose." Masaoka's lobbying activities in these areas made a significant impact on Congressional law-making during the 1950s, including repeal of the 1924 Japanese Exclusion Act and the abolishment of the National Origins Quota Immigration System. Documents produced by the U. S. Congress and a variety of court documents record battles over citizenship issues, while magazine articles discuss the issues surrounding inequalities in immigration.

    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League

      Correspondence and other items produced by the Japanese American Citizens League, especially its Anti-Discrimination Committee, concerning immigration and citizenship issues.

      Dates: 1949-1952
      Container: Box 33, Folder 1-7
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Dual Citizenship

      Japanese American Citizens League and War Relocation Authority correspondence on this topicirca

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 33, Folder 8
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Legislation, 78th Congress
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 33, Folder 9
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: In the Matter of Certain Japanese Aliens Facing Deportation

      Court documents.

      Dates: circa 1946
      Container: Box 33, Folder 10
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Commonwealth Club of California

      Recommendations on U. S. immigration policy, issued for members of this organization.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 33, Folder 11
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Inouye v. Clark

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 33, Folder 12
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Hearings Report

      Regulating Powers of Attorney General to Suspend Deportation of Aliens; before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 80th Congress.

      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 33, Folder 13
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Delgadillo v. Carmichael
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 33, Folder 14
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Deportation Cases

      Correspondence and other items produced by the Japanese American Citizens league and U. S. government agencies.

      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 33, Folder 15
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Articles

      "Inequality in Naturalization: Root of Prejudice," by Robert M. Cullum; and "End of Oriental Exclusion," by Robert M. Cullum.

      Dates: 1947-1948
      Container: Box 33, Folder 16
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Committee Reports

      Amending the Act to Expedite the Admission to the United States of Alien Spouses and Alien Minor Children of Citizen Members of the United States Armed Forces; from the House Committee on the Judiciary, 80th Congress.

      Dates: 1947-1948
      Container: Box 33, Folder 17
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Legislation, 80th Congress
      Dates: 1947-1948
      Container: Box 33, Folder 18-19
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpts.

      Dates: 1947-1948
      Container: Box 33, Folder 20
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Hearings Report

      Providing For Equality Under Naturalization and Immigration Laws; before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 80th Congress.

      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 33, Folder 21
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: H.R. 199

      Public responses and other items concerning immigration quotas.

      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 33, Folder 22
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Abo v. Clark

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 33, Folder 23
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Japanese Language Schools

      Reports, court documents (Stainback v. Mo Hock Ke Lok Po), and news clippings concerning Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii.

      Dates: 1948-1949
      Container: Box 33, Folder 24-26
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Tule Lake Defense Committee

      Items stemming from the activities of this organization.

      Dates: 1948-1952
      Container: Box 33, Folder 27
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Japan Peace Treaty Analyses
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 33, Folder 28
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: "Naturalization of Asian and Pacific Peoples"

      Excerpt from a U. S. Congress Committee meeting.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 34, Folder 1
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: "Annual Report of the Nisei Problem"

      By Frank A. Kasama of the Nisei Consultation Bureau.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 34, Folder 2
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpts.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 34, Folder 3
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Committee Report

      Investigation of Immigration and Naturalization; Progress Report to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 34, Folder 4
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Acheson v. Murakami

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 34, Folder 5
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Article

      "Recovery of Japanese Nationality as Cause for Expatriation in American Law," by Thomas L. Blakemore, Jr.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 34, Folder 6
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Testimony

      "A Discussion of the Degree of Assimilation Among Persons of Japanese Ancestry in the United States," by Elmer R. Smith.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 34, Folder 7-8
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Hearing Minutes

      Before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 34, Folder 9-13
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Legal Case Summations
      Dates: 1949-1950
      Container: Box 34, Folder 14
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Legislative Reports

      81st Congress.

      Dates: 1949-1950
      Container: Box 34, Folder 15
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Legislation, 81st Congress
      Dates: 1949-1950
      Container: Box 34, Folder 16-17
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: "So You Married a Japanese Girl?"

      Brochure for United States military personnel serving in Japan.

      Dates: circa 1950
      Container: Box 34, Folder 18
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Committee Report

      The Immigration and Naturalization Systems of the United States; Report of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 81st Congress.

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 35, Volume 1
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpts.

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 35, Folder 1
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Voting and Citizenship

      Legislation, correspondence, and other items concerning the citizenship status of Americans voting in foreign elections.

      Dates: 1950-1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 2
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Uyeno v. Acheson

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 3
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Japanese American Citizens league Statement

      On the Revision of Immigration, Naturalization, and Nationality Laws; for the Joint Committee of the Senate and House Judiciary Subcommittees on Immigration and Naturalization.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 4-5
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: "Report on Naturalization and Immigration of Japanese in the United States"

      Prepared by Masaoka Associates.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 6-7
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Barber v. Abo

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 8
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Aoki v. Barber

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 9
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: McGrath v. Abo

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 10
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: "Annual Report of the Nisei Problem"

      By Frank A. Kasama of the Nisei Consultation Bureau.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 11
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Legislation, 82nd Congress
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 12
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Immigration and Nationality Act, 82nd Congress
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 13
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Kuwahara v. Acheson

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 35, Folder 14
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpts.

      Dates: 1951-1952
      Container: Box 35, Folder 15
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Pat McCarran

      An address by this Senator on a Presidential veto of the "omnibus immigration and naturalization bill."

      Dates: circa 1952
      Container: Box 35, Folder 16
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Japanese Dual Nationality

      Documents concerned with Japanese citizenship statutes.

      Dates: circa 1952
      Container: Box 35, Folder 17
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Okimura v. Acheson

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 36, Folder 1
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Mandoli v. Acheson

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 36, Folder 2
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Walter-McCarran Act

      Documents concerning this legislation.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 36, Folder 3-12
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Legislation, 82nd Congress
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 36, Folder 13
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Committee Report

      Revising the Laws Relating to Immigration, Naturalization, and Nationality; from the House Committee on the Judiciary, 82nd Congress.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 36, Folder 14
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Conference Report

      Immigration and Nationality Act, 82nd Congress.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 36, Folder 15
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Committee Report

      Revision of Immigration and Nationality Laws; from the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 82nd Congress.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 36, Folder 16
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Legislation, 82nd Congress

      A comparison of old and new texts of immigration laws.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 36, Folder 17
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Articles

      "Opposing Views of Omnibus Immigration Bills are Discussed at Clearing House Meeting;" and "Should We Revise Our Immigration Laws?"

      Dates: 1952, 1955
      Container: Box 36, Folder 18
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Judd Act

      Documents concerning this legislation.

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 36, Folder 19-20
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Whom We Shall Welcome

      A Report of the President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization.

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 36, Volume 1
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: In the Matter of Harry Ginjiro Matoba

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 37, Folder 1-3
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Hearings Report

      Emergency Immigration Program; before Subcommittee No. 1 of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 83rd Congress.

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 37, Folder 4
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpts.

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 37, Folder 5
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Legislation, 83rd Congress
      Dates: 1953-1954
      Container: Box 37, Folder 6-8
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Pamphlet

      "The Stranger at Our Gate: America's Immigration Policy," by Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 37, Folder 9
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Fukumoto v. Dulles

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 37, Folder 10
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Immigration and Nationality Act

      Amendments to this legislation, 84th Congress.

      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 37, Folder 11
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Tokyo Rose

      News clippings and an article concerning the deportation of Iva D'Aquino.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 37, Folder 12
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpts.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 37, Folder 13
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Perez v. Brownell

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 37, Folder 14-15
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Committee Reports

      85th Congress.

      Dates: 1957-1958
      Container: Box 37, Folder 16
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Immigration and Nationality Act

      1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th editions of this Act.

      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 37, Folder 17-20
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Vesting Orders

      U. S. Office of Alien Property.

      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 37, Folder 21
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Nishikawa v. Dulles

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 37, Folder 22
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Hearings Report

      Immigration; before Subcommittee No. 1 of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 88th Congress.

      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 38, Folder 1-3
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Masaoka Statement

      For Liberalized Immigration Policies; before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization, House Committee on the Judiciary, 88th Congress.

      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 38, Folder 4-5
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: "Congressional Comments On Immigration, Second Session, 88th Congress"
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 38, Folder 6-8
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: "To Eliminate Racial Discrimination In Immigration"

      Submission of the Japanese American Citizens League concerning pending legislation.

      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 38, Folder 9-13
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Hearings Report

      Immigration; before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 89th Congress.

      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 38, Folder 14
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Immigration Reform Bill

      A statement by Senator Hiram L. Fong.

      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 38, Folder 15-16
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Congressional Debate On HR 2580 To Amend Immigration & Nationality Act, First Session, 89th Congress, Part I"
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 39, Folder 1-5
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Congressional Debate On HR 2580 To Amend Immigration & Nationality Act, First Session, 89th Congress, Part II"
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 39, Folder 6-10
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments, 89th Congress
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 39, Folder 11-12
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpts.

      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 39, Folder 13-17
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Legislation, 91st Congress

      Internal Security Act of 1950, As Amended, and Communist Control Act of 1954.

      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 39, Folder 18
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: "Planted in a Good Soil: The Japanese Immigrants in U.S. Agriculture"

      By Masakazu Iwata.

      Dates: circa 1971
      Container: Box 39, Folder 19-24
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Articles

      "Are Racial and National Origins Discriminations Completely Eliminated From Our Present Immigration Law?" by Jack Wasserman; and "The New Immigrants," by David North and William Weissert.

      Dates: 1970, 1973
      Container: Box 39A, Folder 1
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Article

      "The Next American Frontier," by Robert B. Reich.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 39A, Folder 2
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: News Clippings
      Dates: 1946-1990
      Container: Box 39A, Folder 3-8
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 39A, Folder 9-10
      Location: IV: Immigration and Citizenship

  • V: Evacuation and Internment

    Items concerned with the Second World War evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast are gathered in this series of the collection. Masaoka, as an officer of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), participated in discussions with government agencies on the proposed relocation, and later, as the JACL's Washington Representative, worked to mitigate the effects of relocation on the camp internees. Included here are documents produced by the War Relocation Authority, the government agency created to handle the evacuation. Box 42 contains the correspondence and scrapbook of Janet Embree, an educator at the Poston, Arizona, Relocation Center. Court documents record the legal challenges to laws discriminating against Japanese Americans during wartime. Articles, pamphlets, newsletters, and other documents reflect the activities of internees in the relocation centers and of individuals and organizations working to eliminate the centers. Any material, regardless of date, memorializing or discussing the War Relocation Authority, relocation center activities, and the impact of internment on Japanese Americans during the Second World War and afterwards, is included here.

    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Quarterly report for March-June.

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 40, Folder 1
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Quarterly report for July-September.

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 40, Folder 2-3
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Semi-Annual Report, January 1 to June 30.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 40, Folder 4
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Semi-Annual Report, July-December.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 40, Folder 5-6
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Semi-annual report, January-June.

      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 40, Folder 7-8
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Semi-annual report, January-June.

      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 40, Folder 9-10
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Semi-annual report, July-December.

      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 40, Folder 11
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Semi-annual report, January-June.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 40, Folder 12
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Pamphlets and news releases issued by the WRA.

      Dates: 1942-46, 1953
      Container: Box 40, Folder 13
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "Japanese Evacuation: Interim Report"

      By Carey McWilliams, Commissioner of Immigration and Housing, State of California.

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 40, Folder 14-15
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "Relocation Communities for Wartime Evacuees"

      A War Relocation Authority publication.

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 40, Folder 16
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: National Council for the Prevention of War

      Leaflets concerning Japanese American relocation.

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 40, Folder 17
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Gordon Hirabayashi

      News clippings and correspondence concerning Hirabayashi's court case.

      Dates: 1942, 1956
      Container: Box 40, Folder 18
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: George Yamada

      News clippings and correspondence concerning Yamada's court case.

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 40, Folder 19
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Statements

      Statements of Masaoka and Minori Yasui, concerning Yasui's test case.

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 40, Folder 20
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Anti-Relocation Organizations

      Pamphlets and mailings by organizations opposed to relocation and preventive detention policies.

      Dates: 1942, 1944, 1969
      Container: Box 40, Folder 21
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Pamphlets.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 40, Folder 22
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Bibliography of published items concerning the WRA, Japanese, and Japanese Americans during the period October 1943-July 1943.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 40, Folder 23
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Curriculum Papers

      Used in the educational program at Poston Relocation Center, Arizona.

      Dates: circa 1942
      Container: Box 41, Folder 1
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Curriculum Guide, Grades 1 and 2

      Used in the educational program at Poston Relocation Center, Arizona.

      Dates: circa 1942
      Container: Box 41, Folder 2-5
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Curriculum Guide, Grades 3 and 4

      Used in the educational program at Poston Relocation Center, Arizona.

      Dates: circa 1942
      Container: Box 41, Folder 6-10
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Curriculum Guide, Grades 5 and 6

      Used in the educational program at Poston Relocation Center, Arizona.

      Dates: circa 1942
      Container: Box 41, Folder 11-14
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Curriculum Guide

      Used in the educational program at Poston Relocation Center, Arizona.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 41, Folder 15-19
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Trek

      Community magazine published at the Central Utah (Topaz) Relocation Center, February and June issues.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 41, Folder 20-21
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Embree Letters

      Correspondence from Janet Embree, an educator at Poston Relocation Center, to legislators, friends, and relatives.

      Dates: circa 1942-1944
      Container: Box 42, Folder 1-9
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Embree Scrapbook

      News clippings and correspondence collected by Janet Embree.

      Dates: circa 1943
      Container: Box 42, Folder 10-14
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Articles

      "Outcast Americans," by William Robinson; "Sedition's General Staff," by Bernard DeVoto; "What About Hugh Kiino?" by S. Burton Hearth; and "Empty the Relocation Centers!" by Kirby Page.

      Dates: 1942; 1943
      Container: Box 43, Folder 1
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "Outcasts! The Story of America's Treatment of Her Japanese-American Minority"

      Published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 43, Folder 2
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Tule Lake

      Notes and correspondence concerning Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake Relocation Center, California.

      Dates: 1943-1948
      Container: Box 43, Folder 3
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Committee Hearings

      War Relocation Centers; before a Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, 78th Congress. Parts I and II.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 43, Folder 4
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Presidential Message

      Delivered to the 78th Congress.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 43, Folder 5
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Pamphlet

      "70,000 American Refugees, Made in U.S.A.," by Truman B. Douglas. Published by the Citizens Committee for Resettlement.

      Dates: circa 1943
      Container: Box 43, Folder 6
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Pamphlet

      "The Japanese In Our Midst, 1943." Published by the Colorado Council of Churches.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 43, Folder 7
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Investigation Report

      Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States. Subcommittee of the House Special Committee on Un-American Actives, 78th Congress.

      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 43, Folder 8
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Pamphlet

      "Issei, Nisei, Kibei: Fortune Magazine Reviews the Program of the War Relocation Authority and the Problems Created by the Evacuation from the West Coast of 110,000 People of Japanese Descent."

      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 43, Folder 9
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: All Aboard

      Community magazine from the Central Utah (Topaz) Relocation Center.

      Dates: Spring, 1944
      Container: Box 43, Folder 10
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Endo v. Eisenhower

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 43, Folder 11-25
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Pamphlet

      "What About Our Japanese-Americans?" by Carey McWilliams. Published by the American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations.

      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 43, Folder 26
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Newsletters

      Published by anti-relocation organizations.

      Dates: 1944, 1946
      Container: Box 43, Folder 27
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: They Work For Victory: The Story of the Japanese Americans and the War Effort

      Published by the Japanese American Citizens League.

      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 43, Folder 28
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Yearbooks

      Secondary school yearbooks from Poston (Arizona) Relocation Center.

      Dates: 1944-1945
      Container: Box 44, Volume 1-3
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Yearbook

      Secondary school yearbook from Poston (Arizona) Relocation Center.

      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 44, Folder 1
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "The Nation's Press Views: West Coast Incidents"

      A War Relocation Authority publication.

      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 44, Folder 2
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: War Relocation Authority

      Report on program of studies.

      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 44, Folder 3-5
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "The Light of Learning"

      A publication of the Adult & Vocational Training Education Department, Poston Relocation Center, Arizona.

      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 44, Folder 6
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "Poston I Elementary School"
      Dates: circa 1945
      Container: Box 44, Folder 7
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: WRA: A Story of Human Conservation

      Published by the War Relocation Authority.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 44, Folder 8
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "The Manzanar War Relocation Center"

      A thesis by Richard B. Rice.

      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 45, Folder 1-4
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Articles

      "California Japanese-The Long Road Back;" "The Nisei Discover America," by Bradford Smith; and "The Nisei Come Home," by Victor Boesen.

      Dates: 1947-1948
      Container: Box 45, Folder 5
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the War Relocation Authority"

      A listing of holdings in the National Archives.

      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 45, Folder 6-7
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "Civil Liberties and the Japanese American Cases: A Study in the Uses of Stare Decisis "

      By Walter F. Murphy.

      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 45, Folder 8
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "The Decision to Evacuate the Japanese From the Pacific Coast"

      By Stetson Conn, from

      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 45, Folder 9
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "The Price of Prejudice: The Japanese-American Relocation Center in Utah During World War II"

      From a lecture delivered at Utah State University by Leonard J. Arrington.

      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 45, Folder 10
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "The Bill of Rights and the Military"

      By Earl Warren.

      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 45, Folder 11
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "The Nisei: The Pride and the Shame"

      Transcription of the narration for a Columbia Broadcasting System news program.

      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 45, Folder 12
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Concentration Camps U.S.A.

      By Charles R. Allen, Jr.

      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 45, Folder 13
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "In Retrospect: The Constitutional Validity of the Evacuation Program Effected Against Persons of Japanese Ancestry During World War II"

      A law school paper by Martin Nakahara.

      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 45, Folder 14
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "An Investigation of the Supreme Court's Decision to Uphold the Constitutionality of the Evacuation of the Japanese in World War II"

      A Political Science class paper by James Lare.

      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 45, Folder 15
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Bick v. Mitchell

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1968-1969
      Container: Box 45, Folder 16-19
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Legislation, 91st and 92nd Congresses
      Dates: 1969, 1971
      Container: Box 45, Folder 20
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "The Constitutionality of the Evacuation"

      By Harry T. Carp.

      Dates: circa 1970
      Container: Box 45, Folder 21
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Relocation: Readings
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 45, Folder 22
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Hearings Report

      Hearings Relating to Various Bills To Repeal the Emergency Detention Act of 1950; before the House Committee on Internal Security, 91st Congress.

      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 45, Folder 23
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "Campaign to Repeal the Emergency Detention Act"

      By Ramond Okamura, Robert Takasugi, Hiroshi Kanno, and Edison Uno.

      Dates: circa 1971
      Container: Box 45, Folder 24
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Committee Reports

      Emergency Detention Act of 1950 Amendments; from the House Committee on Internal Security, 92nd Congress.

      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 45, Folder 25
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Hearings Report

      Prohibiting Detention Camps; before a Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 92nd Congress.

      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 45, Folder 26
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Committee Report

      Prohibiting Detention Camps; from the House Committee on the Judiciary, 92nd Congress.

      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 46, Folder 1
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Legislation, 92nd Congress

      Correspondence and information sheets concerning repeal of the Emergency Detention Act of 1950.

      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 46, Folder 2
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpts.

      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 46, Folder 3-4
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: The Lost Years: 1942-46

      Published by the Manzanar Project Committee.

      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 46, Folder 5
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Wartime Hysteria: The Role of the Press

      Published by the Japanese American Curriculum Project.

      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box 46, Folder 6
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Presentation Mailing

      Promotional material for an historical presentation by Amy Uno Ishii.

      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 46, Folder 7
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "The Evacuation Decision, As I Remember It"

      Written for Bud Fukei by Mike Masaoka.

      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 46, Folder 8
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Committee Report

      National Emergencies; from the House Committee on the Judiciary, 94th Congress.

      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box 46, Folder 9
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Newspaper and Gazette Report

      A Library of Congress Publication.

      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 46, Folder 10
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Earl Warren Memoirs

      Excerpt dealing with relocation decisions.

      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 46, Folder 11
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Valiant Odyssey: Herbert Nicholson In and Out of America's Concentration Camps

      Edited by Michi Weglyn and Betty E. Mitson.

      Dates: 1978
      Container: Box 46, Folder 12
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Articles

      "Haunting Echoes of the Last Round-Up: '9066' Revisited," by James G. Trager; and "The Japanese-American Internment," by Alec Dubro.

      Dates: 1980, 1983
      Container: Box 46, Folder 13
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "Incarcerated Memories: Japanese-Americans Remember"

      A transcript of a Cable News Network program.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 46, Folder 14
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Korematsu v. U.S.A.

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 46, Folder 15-28
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Yasui v. U.S.A.

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 47, Folder 1
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "Unfinished Business"

      A description of a project produced for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 47, Folder 2
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: "The Orange Race: George S. Patton, Jr.'s Japanese-American Hostage Plan"

      By Michael Slackman.

      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 47, Folder 3
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Yasui Packet

      Information collected by Minori Yasui concerning Mike Masaoka's involvement in evacuation and relocation.

      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 47, Folder 4-6
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: National Japanese American Historical Society

      Commemorative calendar illustrated with photos of "Children of Detention Camps."

      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box 47, Folder 7
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: News Clippings
      Dates: 1938-1990
      Container: Box 47, Folder 8-22
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 47, Folder 23-24
      Location: V: Evacuation and Internment

  • VI: Japanese American Military Service

    Section VI contains documents relating to the activities of Japanese Americans in the United States armed forces, especially during the Second World War. Masaoka and three of his brothers were part of this group. Included are commemorative materials and documents reflecting the activities of veteran's organizations, some of which Masaoka was a member; memorabilia from memorial services in which Masaoka played a role; and articles discussing the involvement of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, of which Masaoka was a member, as well as other Japanese American servicemen, in the Second World War.

    • Description: Nisei In Uniform

      Published by the War Relocation Authority.

      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box 48, Folder 1
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Five Years, Five Countries, Five Campaigns...with the 141st Infantry Regiment
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 48, Folder 2
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: War Department News Releases

      News releases publicizing activities of Japanese Americans in the United States military.

      Dates: 1945-1946
      Container: Box 48, Folder 3
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: "Japanese Americans Play Vital Role In United States Intelligence Service in World War Two"

      By John Weckerling.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 48, Folder 4
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Articles

      "The Nisei Come Back to Hood River," by Richard L. Neuberger; "Prove You Are An American--They Did!" by Frank Ochs; "Miracle for Mike...," by Kate Holliday; "Best-Kept Secret of World War II," by Bruce Lee; "Our Own Japanese in the Pacific War," by Bill Hosokawa; "1703 Purple Hearts For Mark Clark's 100th Battalion Hell-Fighters," by Emile C. Schurmacher; and "Go For Broke: The 442d Combat Team Story," by Matt Glasgow.

      Dates: 1946-1978
      Container: Box 48, Folder 5
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Eizo Suzuki

      Military discharge documents.

      Dates: 1947-1949
      Container: Box 48, Folder 6-7
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Court Martial

      Correspondence concerning proceedings against a group of soldiers charged with disobedience.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 48, Folder 8-13
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Committee Meeting Minutes

      The President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 48, Folder 14-16
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Go For Broke!

      Press brochure and preview program for this motion picture.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 48, Folder 17-18
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Congressional Memorials

      Transcripts of statements, and legislation, concerning recognition of Japanese American military service.

      Dates: 1963, 1983, 1988
      Container: Box 48, Folder 19
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: "Services in the Grove"

      Miscellaneous documents concerning commemorative services for Japanese American military personnel at Arlington National Cemetery.

      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 48, Folder 20-21
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Directory

      A listing of names and address of veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 48, Volume 1
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Reunion Program

      Nisei Veterans of Foreign Wars.

      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 48, Folder 22
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Commemorative Booklet

      Concerned with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team's commemorative trip to France.

      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 48, Folder 23
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Nisei Veterans Reunion Program
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 49, Folder 1
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: John J. McCloy

      Remarks made at the Go For Broke National Veterans Association reunion.

      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 49, Folder 2
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: "Yankee Samurai"

      By Joseph D. Harrington.

      Dates: 1979
      Container: Box 49, Folder 3
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Spark Matsunaga

      Transcript of "What Price Glory?" a speech made in honor of members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 49, Folder 4
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Exhibit Brochures

      Descriptive brochures for an exhibit honoring the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 49, Folder 5
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: German Field Position Maps

      Reproductions of maps illustrating the activities of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 49, Folder 6
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Calendars

      Commemorating the activities of Japanese language specialists in World War II.

      Dates: 1982, 1983
      Container: Box 49, Folder 7-8
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Nisei Soldier

      Information packet concerning the release of this documentary film.

      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 49, Folder 9
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Arlington National Cemetery

      General descriptive information.

      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 49, Folder 10
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Memorials

      Miscellaneous documents concerning recognition of Japanese American military service.

      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box 49, Folder 11
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Go For Broke National Veterans Association

      Miscellaneous documents recording the formation and activities of this veterans group.

      Dates: 1985-1991
      Container: Box 49, Folder 12
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: National Nisei Veterans Association

      Miscellaneous documents recording the activities of this veterans group.

      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box 49, Folder 13
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: AJA Veterans Reunion

      Correspondence concerning and programs for this event.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 49, Folder 14-15
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Nisei Veterans Newsletter

      Three issues.

      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box 49, Folder 16
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Go For Broke National Veterans Association

      Meeting minutes, mailing lists, and conference materials.

      Dates: 1988-1990
      Container: Box 49, Folder 17-21
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Veterans Associations

      Correspondence and newsletters produced by veterans groups.

      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box 49, Folder 22
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Notes

      Written by Masaoka concerning the "Military History of Japanese Americans."

      Container: Box 49, Folder 23
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: News Clippings
      Dates: 1946-1991
      Container: Box 49, Folder 24-25
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 49, Folder 26
      Location: VI: Japanese American Military Service

  • VII: Redress

    Documents concerned with the pursuit of reparations for losses suffered by Japanese Americans as a result of relocation and internment during the Second World War are located in this series. Included are documents produced by the Japanese American Citizens League during lobbying efforts towards reparations. A significant portion of this series is devoted to documents stemming from the activities of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), which convened in the early 1980s to hear all sides of the redress issue and make recommendations to Congress. These include correspondence, information brochures, and hearing minutes. Legislative items in this series are concerned with efforts to address the claims of bank depositors who lost money as a result of U. S. government actions, the formation of the CWRIC, and redress efforts in the 1950s and 1980s. Masaoka, representative for both the JACL and veterans groups, made statements before Congressional committees and the CWRIC on the subject of redress.

    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League

      Redress correspondence.

      Dates: 1949-1953, 1980-1984
      Container: Box 50, Folder 1-8
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Curtis Munson

      A collection of documents concerning relocation decisions.

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 50, Folder 9-11
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation and Committee Reports

      Creating an Evacuation Claims Commission; from the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. 79th Congress.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 50, Folder 12
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: "Evacuation Claims--Justice Delayed"

      By Japanese American Citizens League Anti-Discrimination Committee.

      Dates: circa 1947
      Container: Box 50, Folder 13
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Financial and Economic Relations

      A treaty between the United States and Italy.

      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 50, Folder 14
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation, 80th Congress
      Dates: 1947-1948
      Container: Box 50, Folder 15
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Statements

      Before a Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 50, Folder 16-19
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Evacuation Claims Act

      Documents concerning this legislation.

      Dates: 1948-1950
      Container: Box 50, Folder 20-23
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpts.

      Dates: 1948, 1953
      Container: Box 50, Folder 24
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Trading With the Enemy Act

      Documents concerning this legislation.

      Dates: 1948-1955
      Container: Box 50, Folder 25-26
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation, 81st Congress
      Dates: 1949-1950
      Container: Box 51, Folder 1
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Draft Treat of Peace With Japan

      A U.S. Department of State Publication.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 51, Folder 2
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Evacuation Claims Compromise Amendment Program

      Japanese American Citizens League correspondence on this subject.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 51, Folder 3
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation, 82nd Congress
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 51, Folder 4
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League Evacuation Claims Staff

      Monthly reports.

      Dates: 1951-1952
      Container: Box 51, Folder 5
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Guessefeldt v. McGrath

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 51, Folder 6
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League Statement

      Prepared for the Dirksen Subcommittee on the Trading With the Enemy Act, Senate Judiciary Committee.

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 51, Folder 7
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Memorandum

      Masaoka writing on the "Return of Vested Japanese Property."

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 51, Folder 8
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Memorandum

      Frank Chuman, Japanese American Citizens League legal counsel, writing on the Trading With the Enemy Act.

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 51, Folder 9
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Masaoka Statement

      Before the Dirksen Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 51, Folder 10
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Committee Report

      Japanese-American Evacuation Claims; from a Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, 83rd Congress.

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 51, Folder 11
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Hearings Report

      Return of Confiscated Property; before a Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, 83rd Congress.

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 51, Folder 12
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Committee Report

      Trading With the Enemy Act; final Report of the Subcommittee to Examine and Review the Administration of the Trading With the Enemy Act of the Senate Judiciary Committee, 82nd Congress.

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 51, Folder 13
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Committee Report

      Trading With the Enemy Act; from the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 83rd Congress

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 51, Folder 14
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Masaoka Statement

      Before the Subcommittee on the Trading With the Enemy Act, Senate Judiciary Committee.

      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 51, Folder 15
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Masaoka Statement

      Before a Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee relating to resolution on U.S. relations with West Germany and Japan.

      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 51, Folder 16
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Hearings Report

      Japanese-American Evacuation Claims; before a Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, 84th Congress.

      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 51, Folder 17
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation, 84th Congress

      84th Congress.

      Dates: 1955-1956
      Container: Box 51, Folder 18-21
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Statement

      Supplementary statement of the Japanese American Citizens League relating to the Return of Wartime Sequestrated Property, before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Trading With the Enemy Act.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 51, Folder 22
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Statement

      Japanese American Citizens League statement for the Cooper Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

      Dates: circa 1956
      Container: Box 51, Folder 23
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Memorandum

      Masaoka memorandum to Senate Judiciary Subcommittee concerning "Provision in the Treaty of Peace With Japan Regarding Compensation and/or Return of Property Held by an Allied Power and Its Nationals."

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 51, Folder 24
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Committee Reports

      Trading With the Enemy Act and Evacuation Claims Act.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 51, Folder 25
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Nishikawa v. Brownell

      Court documents.

      Dates: circa 1957
      Container: Box 52, Folder 1
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Presidential Communications

      85th Congress.

      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 52, Folder 2
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Yokohama Specie Bank

      Court documents and other items relating to this case.

      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 52, Folder 3-9
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Koda v. U.S.A.

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 52, Folder 10-18
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Smallpage v. Ishida

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 52, Folder 19
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Sonada v. U.S.A.

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 52, Folder 20
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Sumitomo Bank

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 52, Folder 21
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: U.S. Department of Justice

      Documents concerning citizenship.

      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 52, Folder 22
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation

      Concerned with taxation of evacuation claims.

      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 52, Folder 23
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Revenue Act of 1962

      Legislative documents.

      Container: Box 52, Folder 24
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Memoranda

      Four Japanese American Citizens League memoranda concerned with taxation of evacuation claims.

      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 52, Folder 25-28
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Aratani v. Kennedy

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 53, Folder 1-2
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Honda v. Clark

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1964-1967
      Container: Box 53, Folder 3-5
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Honda v. Katzenbach

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 53, Folder 6-9
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation, 92nd Congress
      Dates: 1971-1972
      Container: Box 53, Folder 10
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Committee Reports

      Claims of Yokohama Specie Bank Depositors; from the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 92nd Congress.

      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 53, Folder 11
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Statements

      Made before Congressional Committees concerning redress for Japanese Americans.

      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 53, Folder 12-14
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Reparations Plan

      Prepared by the Japanese American Citizens League.

      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 53, Folder 15-17
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation, 94th Congress

      Establishment of the Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission.

      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 53, Folder 18
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Reparations Questionnaire
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 53, Folder 19
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: The Japanese American Incarceration: A Case For Redress

      Three editions of a booklet prepared by the Japanese American Citizens League National Committee for Redress.

      Dates: 1978-1981
      Container: Box 53, Folder 20
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Guideline Recommendations

      Prepared by the Japanese American Citizens League National Committee for Redress.

      Dates: 1980, 1982
      Container: Box 53, Folder 21
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Statements

      Made before Congressional Committees concerning the establishment of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.

      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box 53, Folder 22-32
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Committee Reports

      Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Act, from the House Committee on the Judiciary, 96th Congress.

      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box 53, Folder 33
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Congressional Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1980-1983
      Container: Box 53, Folder 34
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League Redress Committee

      Reproduction of minutes for a 1942 Japanese American Citizens League meeting.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 54, Folder 1-3
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League Redress Proposal
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 54, Folder 4
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: "Memorandum In Support of the Adoption of the Recommendations of the Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians"

      Prepared by John Nakahata for the Japanese American Citizens League.

      Dates: circa 1981
      Container: Box 54, Folder 5-6
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League Redress Committee

      Information packet. Attached photographs have been removed to P0544.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 54, Folder 7-8
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League Redress Statements
      Dates: circa 1981
      Container: Box 54, Folder 9
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League Redress Miscellaneous
      Dates: circa 1981
      Container: Box 54, Folder 10
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

      Correspondence, information packets, press releases, and other items stemming from the activities of this Commission.

      Dates: 1981-1984
      Container: Box 54, Folder 11-19
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Statements

      Made before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 54, Folder 20-32
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Statements

      Made before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 55, Folder 1-24
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League Testimony
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 55, Folder 25-29
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Media Response Packet

      Japanese American Citizens League.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 56, Folder 1
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Question Lists
      Dates: circa 1981
      Container: Box 56, Folder 2
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation, 97th Congress
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 56, Folder 3
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: "Moving People Around"

      An excerpt from an unpublished manuscript by Laurence T. Hewes.

      Dates: circa 1981
      Container: Box 56, Folder 4-5
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Notes
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 56, Folder 6
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

      Hearing minutes, July-August.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 56, Folder 7-22
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

      Hearing minutes, August.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 57, Folder 1-22
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearing minutes
      Dates: 1981 August-1981 September
      Container: Box 58
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

      Hearing minutes, September.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 59, Folder 1-25
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

      Hearing minutes, September-November.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 60, Folder 1-24
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

      Hearing minutes, November-December.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 61, Folder 1-17
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Hubert K. Arnold

      Correspondence to President Ronald Reagan and California Governor George Deukmejian concerning redress issues.

      Dates: 1982, 1985
      Container: Box 61, Folder 18
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Grassley Statement

      Before the Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 61, Folder 19
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: "Six Billion Dollars to Finance a Japanese Relocation Guilt Trip"

      By Alan Stang.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 61, Folder 20
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: "Economic Losses of Ethnic Japanese As a Result of Exclusion and Detention, 1942-1946"

      Prepared for the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians by Frank S. Arnold, Michael C. Barth, and Gilah Langner.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 61, Folder 21-25
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation, 98th Congress
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 61, Folder 26
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpt.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 61, Folder 27
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Personal Justice Denied

      Summary and Recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 61, Folder 28
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: John J. McCloy Remarks

      Before a Japanese-American Relocation Commission Hearing.

      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 62, Folder 1
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Daniel E. Lungren Testimony

      For the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the House Judiciary Committee.

      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 62, Folder 2
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Masaoka Statement

      Made before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the House Committee on the Judiciary.

      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 62, Folder 3-5
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Japanese American Citizens League Redress Legislative Handbook
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 62, Folder 6-7
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Hohri v. U.S.A.

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 62, Folder 8-14
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Congressional Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1984-1985
      Container: Box 62, Folder 15
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation, 99th Congress
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 62, Folder 16
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Hirabayashi v. U.S.A.

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 62, Folder 17-18
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Masaoka Statement

      Made before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the House Committee on the Judiciary.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 62, Folder 19-20
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Masaoka Statement

      Made before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the House Committee on the Judiciary.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 62, Folder 21-23
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Lillian Baker

      Documents produced by, and describing the activities of, this individual, who opposed redress for Japanese Americans.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 62, Folder 24-28
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Committee Reports
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 63, Folder 1
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Legislation, 100th Congress
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 63, Folder 2
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Masaoka Statement

      Made before the Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office and Civil Service of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.

      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 63, Folder 3-4
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Masaoka Statement

      Made before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the House Committee on the Judiciary.

      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 63, Folder 5-7
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Masaoka Statement

      Made before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary of the House Committee on the Judiciary.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 63, Folder 8
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: "Crossfire"

      Transcript of a Cable News Network program, featuring a debate between Masaoka and Lillian Baker.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 63, Folder 9
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: James Purcell

      Documents stemming from the activities of this attorney, who was active in relocation court challenges and redress.

      Dates: circa 1988
      Container: Box 63, Folder 10-11
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Congressional Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 63, Folder 12-13
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Hearings Report

      Authorization Request of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice for Fiscal Year 1990; before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Judiciary Committee, 101st Congress.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 63, Folder 14
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Congressional Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 63, Folder 15
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: The Redress Monitor

      The newsletter of the Japanese American Citizens League, Legislative Education Committee; three issues.

      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box 63, Folder 16
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Redress Administration
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 63, Folder 17
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: U. S. Department of Justice

      Program for an event commemorating redress payments.

      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 63, Folder 18
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: News Clippings
      Dates: 1948-1991
      Container: Box 63, Folder 19-27
      Location: VII: Redress
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 63, Folder 28-29
      Location: VII: Redress

  • VIII: Japanese American Citizens League

    Section VII contains records of, and documents produced by, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), with which Masaoka was involved as National Secretary or Washington Representative most of his life. These records are of a general, administrative nature, and include correspondence, convention programs, financial reports, governing documents, reports from the organization's Washington Representative, and documents stemming from activities of individual JACL chapters. Documents which discuss the activities of the Japanese American Citizens League in specific areas, such as redress or citizenship, are stored in other sections of this collection.

  • IX: Minority Issues

    Materials in this series consist of documents discussing and recording the experience of Americans of Japanese descent in areas outside of those covered in other series of this collection. Topics include discrimination, demographics, culture, ethnicity, and general history. These areas are reflected in articles, court documents, state election guides, exhibition brochures, and historical reports. The activities of political and cultural organizations are also represented here. Section VIII contains documents reflecting the experiences of other religious, national, and racial minority groups in America.

    • Description: Articles

      "Hawaii: Racial Problem and Naval Base," by George H. Blakeslee; and "California's Proposition 15," by Grace Cable Keroher.

      Dates: 1925; 1947
      Container: Box 67, Folder 1
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Democracy and Japanese Americans

      By Norman Thomas.

      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 67, Folder 2
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Takahashi v. Fish and Game Commission

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1945-1947
      Container: Box 67, Folder 3-10
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Facts About Japanese-Americans"

      Published by the American Council On Race Relations.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 67, Folder 11
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Anderson v. Auseth

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 67, Folder 12
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Oyama v. California

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 67, Folder 13-15
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Palermo v. Stockton Theatres

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 67, Folder 16
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Shelley v. Kraemer

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 67, Folder 17
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "The California Alien Land Law and the Fourteenth Amendment"

      By Edwin E. Ferguson.

      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 67, Folder 18
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "The Anti-Japanese Land Laws of California and Ten Other States

      By Dudley O. McGovney.

      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 67, Folder 19-20
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: To Secure These Rights

      The Report of the President's Committee On Civil Rights.

      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 67, Folder 21
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Stainback v. Mo Hock Ke Lok Po

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 68, Folder 1
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Legislation
      Dates: 1948-1986
      Container: Box 68, Folder 2
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 68, Folder 3
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Some Social Aspects of Japanese-American Demography"

      By Dorothy Swaine Thomas.

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 68, Folder 4
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 68, Folder 5
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Masaoka v. California

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 68, Folder 6
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Report on the Alien Land Laws in the United States"

      Prepared by Masaoka Associates.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 68, Folder 7-10
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Thompson Co. v. District of Columbia

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 68, Folder 11
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 68, Folder 12
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Civil Rights Legislation and the Fight for Equality"
      Dates: 1862-1952; 1953
      Container: Box 68, Folder 13
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Consolidated Flower Shipments v. Civil Aeronautics Board

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 68, Folder 14
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Nairn v. Naim

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 68, Folder 15
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Romero v. Weakley

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 68, Folder 16-18
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: California Legislature

      Legislation concerning the access of resident aliens to state social services.

      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 68, Folder 19
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Committee Report

      Exemption of Agricultural Commodities (Amendment to Civil Aeronautics Act); before the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 84th Congress.

      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 68, Folder 20
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: California Voter's Guide and Election Results

      Repeal of alien land laws.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 68, Folder 21-22
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 68, Folder 23-25
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Exhibition Brochure

      Photographic Exhibition on the First Japanese Embassy and the Voyage of the Kanrin-Maru in 1860.

      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 69, Folder 1
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: O'Meara v. Washington State Board Against Discrimination

      Court documents.

      Dates: circa 1961
      Container: Box 69, Folder 2-3
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Early New York Issei Founders of Japanese American Trade"

      By T. Scott Miyakawa.

      Dates: circa 1965
      Container: Box 69, Folder 4-6
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Issei In New England"
      Dates: circa 1965
      Container: Box 69, Folder 7
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "The Study of the United States-Japan Trade and of the East Coast Japanese Americans"

      Prepared by the Japanese American Citizens League East Coast Japanese History Project.

      Dates: circa 1965
      Container: Box 69, Folder 8
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Presidential Addresses

      Commemorative editions of civil rights speeches made by Lyndon B. Johnson.

      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 69, Folder 9-10
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Washington Voters Pamphlet

      Citizenship proposition to electorate.

      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 69, Folder 11
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Report of Japanese American Research Project
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 69, Folder 12
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: America-Japan Society

      50th anniversary brochure.

      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 69, Folder 13
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Class or Ethnic Solidarity: The Japanese American Company Union"

      By John Modell.

      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 69, Folder 14
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Wakamatsu Colony Centennial

      Commemorative brochure.

      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 69, Folder 15
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Japanese Americans: Origins' Past & Present"

      By Joe Grant Masaoka.

      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 69, Folder 16
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Cabinet Committee for Asian Affairs

      Legislation to create this committee.

      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 69, Folder 17-28
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Socioeconomic Mobility Among Three Generations of Japanese Americans"

      By Gene N. Levine and Darrel M. Montero.

      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 70, Folder 1
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: My Dream and Reality "

      By Tadafumi Mikuriya. Includes attached correspondence.

      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 70, Folder 2
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Japanese American Migration to the East Coast"

      Presented by the Eastern District Youth Council, Japanese American Youth, as their Project of the Biennium.

      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 70, Folder 3
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity: A Study of Japanese Americans"

      By Edna Bonacich and John Modell.

      Dates: circa 1973
      Container: Box 70, Folder 4-25
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "The Japanese American Community: Transformation Over Three Generations"

      By Grace N. Levine and Darrel Montero.

      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 71, Folder 1
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Difficulties in Cross-Cultural Communication"

      By Sukchiro Hirakawa.

      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 71, Folder 2
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Reviewer's Comments: Bonacich and Modell, the Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity"
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box 71, Folder 3
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Acculturation and the Retention of an Ethnic Identity in Three Generations of Japanese Americans

      By John W. Connor.

      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 71, Folder 4-5
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Sachie, A Daughter of Hawaii

      By Patsy Sumie Saiki.

      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 71, Folder 6
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: University of California v. Bakke

      Court documents.

      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 71, Folder 7
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "The National Asian American Roster"

      Compiled by Don T. Nakanishi for the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box 71, Folder 8
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Testimonial Program

      For "An American Testimonial To Members of Congress of Japanese Ancestry; To the Japanese American Experience; To the Challenges Ahead in Human and Civil Rights;" a fund raiser for the Japanese American Citizens League.

      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box 71, Folder 9
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Japanese American Curriculum Project Catalogue
      Dates: 1980-1981
      Container: Box 71, Folder 10
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Japan-America Society of Washington

      Membership directory and miscellaneous.

      Dates: 1982, 1987
      Container: Box 71, Folder 11
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Sanga Moyu

      Various documents concerned with the broadcasting of a Japanese television program.

      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 71, Folder 12-14
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Articles

      "The Invisible Success Story," by Stuart Rothenberg;" and "Pass Go, Collect $1.4 Mil," by Andrew Alexander.

      Dates: 1984, 1989
      Container: Box 71, Folder 15
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Japanese Canadians

      Articles, government documents, news clippings, and other items relating to issues important to Japanese Canadians, especially their relocation to internment camps during the Second World War.

      Dates: 1984-1990
      Container: Box 71, Folder 16-19
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Remember Pearl Harbor: The Japanese American Quest for a Place in the Sun"

      By Naoko Shibusawa.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 71, Folder 20-23
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Mermelstein v. Institute For Historical Review

      Documents produced by the Auschwitz Study Foundation in relation to this case.

      Dates: 1986-1988
      Container: Box 71, Folder 24-26
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Books-In-Print, Japanese in the Americas "

      Book catalogue for the Japanese American Library.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 71, Folder 27
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Wabuka Club Directory
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 71, Folder 28
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Jamake Highwater

      Documents concerned with the authenticity of the writings and ethnicity of this author.

      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 72, Folder 1-5
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution"

      Documents produced for commemorative activities for the bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution.

      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 72, Folder 6
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Japanese American History

      Various documents produced by museums, historical societies, and others.

      Dates: 1987-1990
      Container: Box 72, Folder 7
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Amerasia Bookstore Catalogue
      Dates: circa 1988
      Container: Box 72, Folder 8
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: A Proposal for the Malheur County Japanese American Cultural Center
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 72, Folder 9
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Asian and Pacific Islander Advisory Committee, Final Report

      California State Attorney General's Office.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 72, Folder 10
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Congressional Black Caucus

      Documents concerned with the impact on and role of Black Americans in regard to Japan-U.S. relations.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 72, Folder 11-20
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Knowledge and Access: A Study of Asian and Pacific American Communities in the Washington, D. C. Metropolitan Area"

      By Juanita Tamayo Lott.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 72, Folder 21-22
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Asian Pacific American Achievement Awards

      Event program.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 72, Folder 23
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Jin Kinoshita

      Information packet on this scientist and educator.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 72, Folder 24-25
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Japan-America Society of Washington Bulletin

      Three issues.

      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box 72, Folder 26
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: National Japanese American Historical Society Focus

      Three issues.

      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box 72, Folder 27
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Book Catalogue

      Asian American titles; JACP, Incirca

      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 72, Folder 28
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Japanese Americans"

      Unidentified book excerpt.

      Container: Box 72, Folder 29
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Norman Mineta

      Documents recording the activities of this Congressman.

      Container: Box 73, Folder 1
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Spark Matsunaga

      Documents recording the activities of this Congressman.

      Container: Box 73, Folder 2-4
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Document Excerpt

      The subject is the Japanese American community.

      Container: Box 73, Folder 5-7
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Document Excerpt

      The subject is the Japanese American influence on American culture.

      Container: Box 73, Folder 8
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "The Issei and the Quest for Citizenship"
      Container: Box 73, Folder 9
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "Concentration Camps--American Style"
      Container: Box 73, Folder 10
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: "The Economics and Politics of Racial Accommodation: The Japanese of Los Angeles"
      Dates: 1900-1942
      Container: Box 73, Folder 11-21
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Japanese American Demographics

      Data, maps, news clippings, and other items recording population statistics.

      Container: Box 73, Folder 22-24
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: News Clippings
      Dates: 1939-1991
      Container: Box 73, Folder 25-29
      Location: IX: Minority Issues
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 73, Folder 30
      Location: IX: Minority Issues

  • X: Japan

    Included in this section are documents concerned with Japanese trade, government, culture, and relations with the United States. Represented are Japanese industry, government and business leaders, and Japanese artists. Japan's diplomatic and economic relations with the United States are discussed in the form of articles and treaties. Many of the items in this section reflect Masaoka's lobbying firm, Mike Masaoka Associates, which actively pursued Japanese industry and trade associations as clients.

    • Description: Sister Cities International
      Container: Box 74, Folder 1
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "The Story of Timmore--The Japanese Fisherman"

      By John M. Brooke.

      Container: Box 74, Folder 2
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: A Course on Japan

      By John Irwin. Published by the Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada.

      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box 74, Folder 3
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Legislation
      Dates: 1937-1975
      Container: Box 74, Folder 4
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Friendship, Commerce and Navigation"

      Treaty and Protocol between the United States and Japan.

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 74, Folder 5
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: The Massacre of the Innocents: People and Land in Japan

      By George P. Carlin.

      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 74, Folder 6
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Interchange of Patent Rights and Technical Information for Defense Purposes"

      Agreement and Protocol between the United States and Japan.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 74, Folder 7
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Protection of Industrial Property"

      Convention between the United States and other governments.

      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 74, Folder 8
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Committee Report

      Problems of the Domestic Textile Industry; before a Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 85th Congress.

      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 74, Folder 9
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: American Committee on Japan

      Correspondence concerning ratification of treaties with Japan.

      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 74, Folder 10
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Facts About Japan"

      Brochure prepared by the Japan Information Service, Consulate General of Japan.

      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 74, Folder 11
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Developments in the Law and Institutions of International Economic Relations: The Kennedy Round of Trade Negotiations"

      By John B. Rehm.

      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 74, Folder 12
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Green, Political Integration by Jurisprudence "

      A book review by John B. Rehm.

      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 74, Folder 13
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Coexistence and Commerce--Guidelines for Transactions Between East and West"

      A book review by John B. Rehm.

      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 74, Folder 14
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Our Two Countries

      By Philip H. Trezise.

      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 74, Folder 15
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: U.S./Japan Outlook: A Digest of American Views of Japan

      Published by Japan Trade Centers.

      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 74, Folder 16
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: The Emperor of Japan: A Profile on the Occasion of the Visit by the Emperor and Empress to the United States

      By Edwin O. Reischauer.

      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box 74, Folder 17
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Commemorative Booklets

      A recounting of a trip to the United States and Europe by the Emperor and Empress of Japan.

      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box 74, Folder 18-19
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "The United States in the World Economy"

      Book excerpt by Edward R. Fried and Philip H. Trezise.

      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 74, Folder 20
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Takashima Hokkai

      Documents providing information about this Japanese artist.

      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 74, Folder 21
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: International Trade Option Paper

      Produced by the White House Conference on Small Business.

      Dates: 1979
      Container: Box 74, Folder 22-23
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "U.S.-Japanese Relations: What Should the Future Hold?"

      Transcription of a forum held by the American Enterprise Institute.

      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 74, Folder 24
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "The American View of Japan and the Japanese: A Sharp Decline in Racism but Memories of WW II Still Linger"
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box 74, Folder 25
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Aspects of Japanese Culture, Tradition and Behavior
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box 74, Folder 26
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Bank of Tokyo

      Annual report. A photograph attached to this document has been removed to P0544.

      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box 74, Folder 27
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Toyota Brochures
      Dates: 1982, 1986
      Container: Box 74, Folder 28-30
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Speech Transcripts

      Addresses given by Japanese government officials.

      Dates: 1982; 1990
      Container: Box 74, Folder 31
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: A History of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 75, Folder 1
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Asian Studies Center Backgrounder

      Five issues.

      Dates: 1983, 1989
      Container: Box 75, Folder 2
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Heine Watercolors

      Correspondence about, an exhibition brochure concerning, and reproductions of these paintings, which depict early United States-Japan contact.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 75, Folder 3
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Briefing Book

      Prepared by the Asian Studies Center of the Heritage Foundation for President Ronald Reagan's trip to Asia.

      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 75, Folder 4
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Industrial Policy in Japan, A Question-and-Answer Overview"

      Prepared by the Japan Trade Center and the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

      Dates: circa 1984
      Container: Box 75, Folder 5
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Japan's Industrial Policies

      Published by the Japan Economic Institute of America.

      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 75, Folder 6
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Competing for the Future: A Democratic Strategy for Trade

      Published by the National-House Democratic Caucus.

      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 75, Folder 7
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Keizai Koho Center

      "Trading With Japan," and "Japan's 'Strong Yen' Crisis."

      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 75, Folder 8
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Articles

      "The Force of the Future," by Saburo Okita; "No News Is Not Good News," by Urban C. Lehner; "U.S. and Japan Relations--A New Realism," by William Watts; "Partnership for Prosperity: U.S.-Japan Relations and the World Economy," by Kiichi Miyazawa; and The Japanese and the Jews: Two Societies That Surprised the World," by Ben-Ami Shillony.

      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 75, Folder 9
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Articles

      "Two Looks at the Problem of America's Perception of Japan," by William Schneider; "Japan-Bashing is Pointless," by Hajime Karatsu; "Japan in the 21st Century: A Psychologist Looks Toward the Future," by Joseph A. Precker; and "A Return to International Society: Japan's Entry into the United Nations," by Naotake Sato.

      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 75, Folder 10
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Michi Kobi

      Two articles sent by this individual to Mike Masaoka.

      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 75, Folder 11
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Study Proposals

      Prepared for investigations on economics and trade, by William Schneider and Grant Ujifusa.

      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 75, Folder 12-13
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Articles

      "Costly Defects: The U.S. Semiconductor Industry from a Japanese Perspective," by Hajime Karatsu; "Networking in the Pacific: Private Actions with a Public Purpose," by Richard M. Fairbanks III; "How Japan Can Contribute to a Healthy World Economy: Six Proposals to Bolster the Free Trade System;" "Industrial Policy's Generation Gap," by Ryutaro Komiya; "Charting a New Policy Course," by Kazuhiko Otsuka; "Public Relations at the American Grass Roots," by Soshichi Miyachi; "Japan's Place in the Evolving World Order," by Yasusuke Murakami and Kuniko Inoguchi; and "The Enigma of the Eighties: World Trade and Protectionism," by Malcolm T. Stamper.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 75, Folder 14
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Articles

      "Beyond the Trade Statistics: Considering the Total U.S.-Japan Economic Relationship," by Allen Wallis; "Back to Basics: A Dutch Uncle Talk on U.S. Competitiveness," by Murray L. Weidenbaum; "Coexistence and Mutual Respect: Toward a New Global Ethic," by Yasuhiro Nakasone; "Multilateral Diplomacy: A Role for the Middle Powers in the Troubled International System," by Soedjatmoko; "Responsibilities to Fulfill: Realizing the Promise of the Pacific Basin," by Mike Mansfield; "Interdependence and Accommodation: Strengthening U.S.-Japan Economic Ties," by Yoshio Okawara; and "A History of Assimilation: Japan's Technology Trade," by Leslie S. Hiraoka.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 75, Folder 15
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: U.S.-Japan Trade Study Group Progress Report
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 75, Folder 16
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Ryoichi Sasakawa

      An article and brochures about this Japanese businessman and philanthropist.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 75, Folder 17
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: White Paper on the International Trade

      By the Japan Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 75, Folder 18
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Handy Facts on U.S.-Japan Economic Relations

      Published by the Japan External Trade Organization.

      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 75, Folder 19
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Articles

      "Japan and the Categorical Imperative," by James Fallows; "A Surplus of Bickering: Sharing the Blame for U.S.-Japan Trade Friction," by Dennis C. McCornac; "Pax Consortis: Coordination and Solidarity in Managing the World Economy," by Shinji Fukukawa; and "Vision, Consensus, and Competition: Industrial Policy in Japan," by Shoichi Saba.

      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 75, Folder 20
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: The World of Suntory
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 75, Folder 21
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: The U.S. and Asia: Statistical Handbook

      Published by the Asian Studies Center.

      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 75, Folder 22-23
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs

      Profiles of government leaders. Attached photographs have been removed to P0544.

      Container: Box 75, Folder 24
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: The JAMA Forum

      Published by the Japan Automobile Manufacturer's Association.

      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 75, Folder 25
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "The History of Japanese Trade"

      Museum exhibit brochure.

      Dates: circa 1988
      Container: Box 76, Folder 1
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: TBS-Britannica, Co.

      Product brochures.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 76, Folder 2
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii

      Brochure to promote development of the Center.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 76, Folder 3
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "A Model Japanese Code of Conduct"

      A proposal by U. S. Representative Mervyn M. Dymally.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 76, Folder 4
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "The Internalization of Japan: A Perspective on Higher Education and Philanthropy"

      By Barbara K. Bundy.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 76, Folder 5
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Trade Fictions--A View From a Foxhole"

      An address by Cedrick Shimo, Vice President of Honda International Trading Corp. Also includes correspondence.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 76, Folder 6
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Masaoka Commentary on U.S.-Japan Economic Relations
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 76, Folder 7
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Takata Corporation Brochure
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 76, Folder 8
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Glen F. Fukushima Recommendation
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 76, Folder 9
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "The U.S. Role in an Asia-Pacific Economic Forum"

      By Roger A. Brooks.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 76, Folder 10
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "To Avoid the 'Mistake of the Century'--Misgivings Over Shintaro Ishihara"

      By Terumasa Nakanishi.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 76, Folder 11
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Congressional Record

      Excerpt.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 76, Folder 12
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Liberal Star

      A publication of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. Two issues.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 76, Folder 13
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: The JAMA Forum

      Published by the Japan Automobile Manufacturer's Association.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 76, Folder 14
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Tokyo Financial Review

      Published by the Bank of Tokyo.

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 76, Folder 15
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Japan-United States Friendship Commission, Biennial Report
      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box 76, Folder 16
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: News From Japan

      Four issues.

      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box 76, Folder 17
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Heritage Foundation
      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box 76, Folder 18
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Japan Information Resources in the United States

      Published by the Keizai Koho Center of the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs.

      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 76, Folder 19
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Rhapsody In August"

      A script for a film by Akira Kurosawa.

      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 76, Folder 20-22
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Structural Impediments Initiative
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 76, Folder 23-27
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: "Foreign Diplomacy over Ochazuke Bowl"

      A description of early post-World War II Japan-U.S. relations, by Mike M. Masaoka.

      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 76, Folder 28
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Periodicals

      , and

      Container: Box 77, Folder 1-2
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Client List
      Container: Box 77, Folder 3
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: News Clippings
      Dates: circa 1965-1991
      Container: Box 77, Folder 4-21
      Location: X: Japan
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 77, Folder 22
      Location: X: Japan

  • XI: Hawaiian Statehood

    Box 78 contains legislative documents relating to the acceptance of statehood for Hawaii. As a large percentage of the population of Hawaii is of Japanese ancestry, this issue was of importance to all Japanese Americans, who continued to battle the discrimination brought into focus by the question of Hawaiian statehood.

    • Description: Committee Report

      Statehood for Hawaii; before a Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Territories, 79th Congress.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 78, Volume 1
      Location: XI: Hawaiian Statehood
    • Description: Committee Report

      Hawaii Statehood; before the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, 81st Congress.

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 78, Volume 2
      Location: XI: Hawaiian Statehood
    • Description: Committee Report

      Statehood for Hawaii; before the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, 86th Congress.

      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 78, Folder 1
      Location: XI: Hawaiian Statehood
    • Description: Legislation, 86th Congress
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 78, Folder 2
      Location: XI: Hawaiian Statehood
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 78, Folder 3
      Location: XI: Hawaiian Statehood

  • XII: Miscellaneous

    Documents stored in box 79 are those found in the collection that are not closely related to activities of Mike Masaoka, nor to Japanese American concerns. Box 80 contains a variety of awards and honors earned by Masaoka for excellence in forensic competition, as well as honors earned during his years in the U. S. Army. Box 81 contains oversize awards certificates and memorabilia.

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Citizenship--United States--Sources
  • Civic leaders--Utah--Salt Lake City--Archives
  • Japanese American authors--Utah--Salt Lake City--Archives
  • Japanese American veterans--Utah--Salt Lake City--Archives
  • Japanese Americans
  • Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
  • Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Sources
  • Japanese Americans--Reparations--Sources
  • Japanese Americans--Social conditions--Sources
  • Japanese Americans--Utah--Salt Lake City--Archives
  • Lobbyists--Utah--Archives
  • United States--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects--Sources
  • World War, 1939-1945--Reparations

Personal Names

  • Masaoka, Mike, 1915-1991--Archives
  • Masaoka, Mike, 1915-1991--Correspondence
  • Masaoka, Mike, 1915-1991--Interviews

Corporate Names

  • Central Utah Relocation Center--Sources
  • Go for Broke National Veterans Association Foundation--Records and correspondence
  • Japanese American Citizens' League
  • Japanese American Citizens' League--Records and correspondence
  • Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)--Sources
  • United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd--Sources
  • United States. War Relocation Authority--Sources

Geographical Names

  • Hawaii--Politics and government--Sources
  • Japan--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects--Sources
  • Japan--Foreign relations--Sources
  • United States--Foreign economic relations--Japan--Sources

Form or Genre Terms

  • Academic theses
  • Calendars
  • Commemorative medals
  • Correspondence
  • Curricula
  • Essays
  • Handbooks and manuals
  • Interviews
  • Legislative hearings
  • Legislative materials
  • Newsletters
  • Newspaper clippings
  • Oral histories
  • Oral histories
  • School yearbooks
  • Scrapbooks

Finding aid created by Mark Jensen and Karen Carver.
1993 (last modified: 2023)

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