Papers, 1918-1955.

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Papers, 1918-1955.

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Collection consists of diaries, essays, memoirs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and photographic negatives related to the life of agricultural specialist and merchant Kumezô Hachimonji. Correspondence is made up of typewritten excerpts from internment camp letters exchanged between the Hachimonjis and their friends. Hachimonji's memoirs are contained in a volume which spans the dates 1934-39. The essays in the collection, put together around 1955, cover a variety of topics, including the Arab-Israeli conflict, farming, wartime evacuation, Japanese-Chinese relations, racism, and immigration. A scrapbook contains articles by Hachimonji on agriculture which appeared in a Japanese language newspaper, 1939-40.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)1 oversize box.

eng,

jpn,

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7416968

University of California, Los Angeles

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Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles)

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The Japanese American Research Project (originally named the Issei History Project) was initiated by Wakamatsu Shigeo, President of the Japanese American citizens League (JACL) in 1960. The three major objectives of the project were: 1. to conduct a sociological survey based on a national sampling of the Issei and Nisei populations; 2. to publish a definitive history of the Japanese Americans; 3. and to collect documents, including oral history and memorabilia. UCLA agreed to co-sponsor the proj...

Hachimonji, Kumezō, 1888-1956

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Hachimonji was born in 1888; a native of Miyagi Prefecture, he graduated from Tôhoku Gakuin in Sendai and arrived in the US in 1918; BS, Columbia Univ.; owned and operated Valley Seed Company in El Monte, CA, before WWII; he was also known as K. Hatchmonji; died in 1956. From the description of Papers, 1918-1955. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39793761 ...