Shima, Shinkichirō.

Dates:
Active 1894
Active 1965
Japanese, English,

Biographical notes:

Shinkichirō Shima was born 1877 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and arrived at San Francisco in 1894 on board the Empress of China. He was baptized at a Methodist church in 1898 and became a devout Christian. During World War II, he was incarcerated in the Santa Ana Assembly Center and transferred to the Manzanar Relocation Center on July 31, 1942. In the Manzanar Relocation Center, he joined the Guayule project, propagating rubber plants. He was also a poet and worked as a cactus nurseryman in Southern California, exporting cacti to Japan

From the description of Papers, 1894-1965. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 41539404

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Subjects:

  • Authors, Japanese
  • Japanese Americans
  • Japanese Americans

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Places:

  • California, Southern (as recorded)