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Image of Dancers at Bon Odori festival, Seattle, July 24, 1982
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Dancers at Bon Odori festival, Seattle, July 24, 1982

During the summer of 1932, Seattle's first Bon Odori festival was held by the Seattle Buddhist Church (Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple). Bon Odori is a traditional Japanese style of dancing performed during Obon, a Buddhist memorial service. The joyful dance celebrates selfless giving and expresses gratitude to departed family members and ancestors. Over the years, the annual open-to-all event has…
ID Number:2000.107.098.19.09
Date:1982
Image of Kiki Hagimori instructs Corey Ojima for Bon Odori, Seattle, July 19, 1983
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Kiki Hagimori instructs Corey Ojima for Bon Odori, Seattle, July 19, 1983

During the summer of 1932, Seattle's first Bon Odori festival was held by the Seattle Buddhist Church (Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple). Bon Odori is a traditional Japanese style of dancing performed during Obon, a Buddhist memorial service. The joyful dance celebrates selfless giving and expresses gratitude to departed family members and ancestors. Over the years, the annual open-to-all event has…
ID Number:2000.107.098.19.10
Date:1983
Image of Midori Sugawara in her room at Keiro Nursing Home, Seattle, April 16, 1985
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Midori Sugawara in her room at Keiro Nursing Home, Seattle, April 16, 1985

Seattle Keiro nursing home, designed to care for Issei (first generation Japanese immigrants), opened on September 30, 1976 at 24th Avenue South and South Massachusetts Street. Designed by Japanese Americans, the home sought to care for Japanese elders in a respectful and culturally familiar manner. In 1987, the nursing home moved to a larger facility at 16th Avenue and East…
ID Number:2000.107.098.19.11
Date:1985
Image of Seafair royalty touring Japanese training ship, Seattle, June 7, 1985
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Seafair royalty touring Japanese training ship, Seattle, June 7, 1985

Seafair Royalty have been a part of Seattle's annual summer celebration since the festival's beginnings in 1950. Young women are chosen for the court to represent their neighborhood and/or ethnic community and are awarded academic scholarships.In this photo, the Seafair queen and princesses of Seattle's Japanese community stand under an umbrella while taking a tour of the Japanese Maritime Safety…
ID Number:2000.107.098.19.12
Date:1985
Image of Kotaka Uomoto at Nisei Veterans Hall, Seattle, September 21, 1988
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Kotaka Uomoto at Nisei Veterans Hall, Seattle, September 21, 1988

This photo shows Kotaka Uomoto posing in front of an American flag at the Nisei Veterans Hall in Seattle, where she participated in a twice-weekly nutrition program for Japanese senior citizens. Kotaka (1896-1993) and her husband Hyokichi Uomoto (1883-1965) arrived in Washington from Japan in 1916 and settled in Seattle. The couple had four sons: Yoshinori George (1919-2004), Kiyoshi Robert…
ID Number:2000.107.098.20.01
Date:1988
Image of Kichisaburo Ishimitsu and friends at redress ceremony, Seattle, October 14, 1990
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Kichisaburo Ishimitsu and friends at redress ceremony, Seattle, October 14, 1990

The Japanese American Redress Movement refers to the efforts, from the 1940s through the 1990s, to obtain the restitution of civil rights, monetary compensation, and an apology from the U.S. government for the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Japanese Americans protested their mass incarceration with defiance and protests while living at the camps, and…
ID Number:2000.107.098.20.02
Date:1990
Image of Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island in back of military truck, March 31, 1942
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Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island in back of military truck, March 31, 1942

In this image Seijiro Nakamura, second from left, and his children are shown seated in an army truck with Private Tony Bova. The elderly man on the right is Kihachi Hirakawa, pastor of the Japanese church at Winslow. The minister had held his final services three days before in the church he built with is own labor more than forty…
ID Number:2000.107.098.21.01
Date:1942
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Bob and Yoshi Hosokawa waiting for bus during forced removal, 1942

This image shows Bob and Yoshi Hosokawa, who had been married three months, awaiting their turn to board the bus for the train that will carry them to the Minidoka War Relocation Center in southern Idaho, where they would be incarcerated until 1945.On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President…
ID Number:2000.107.098.22.01
Date:1942
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Child waiting to be taken to an incarceration camp during WWII, November 30, 1942

On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from "designated military areas." More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration at camps in Idaho and…
ID Number:2000.107.098.22.02
Date:1942
Image of Cherry Kinoshita holding symbol of Japanese American incarceration, Seattle, July 22, 1988
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Cherry Kinoshita holding symbol of Japanese American incarceration, Seattle, July 22, 1988

Born in Seattle, Cherry Tanaka Kinoshita (1923-2008) was incarcerated at Minidoka Relocation Center during World War II. She married, returned to Seattle in 1950, and raised a family. Kinoshita was particularly active in efforts to obtain an apology and reparations from the United States government for the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. In 1980, Kinoshita became a founder of the…
ID Number:2000.107.105.35.01
Date:1988
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