Charles Mace

These are photos of Japanese-Americans reintegrating into society after the wartime internment.

 Michiko Kataoka, a freshman, and Meriko Hoshiyama, a junior, both from Manzanar 

(left to right in picture), with fellow students at the entrance to the campus library 

at the University of California at Los Angeles. 1945

  

 Michiko Kataoka, a freshman, and Meriko Hoshiyama, a junior, both from Manzanar, 

with fellow students on the University of California campus at Los Angeles. 1945

    

Nisei students arriving on the campus at the 

University of California in Los Angeles. 1945

 

 Miss Irene Eiko Yonemura works in the Peoria, Illinois, public library, where 

she has found work much to her liking and her training. Miss Yonemura is from 

the Poston center and came to Peoria in the summer of 1943. 1944

  

 Miss Julie Sugimoto (l) and her sister June (r), work in the home of the Burchette family 

in Peoria, Illinois. June, plus her work at the home, is learning to be a photo retoucher. 1944

[photo retouching by hand? thank god for the photoshop era!!]

  

 Miss Susie Yuasa, 18, a former evacuee from the Jerome Relocation Center, 

now employed in a Chicago candy factory, turns from her task momentarily 

to display the familiar symbol of victory. 1943

  

 Mr. and Mrs. Toshio Kimura have reopened their large house in San Jose, and have as their 

guests two other families who are sharing the dwelling pending finding places of their own. 1945

  

 Naomi Asakura, age 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Taki Asakura, 

who returned to Santa Barbara from Gila River on March 17, is seen 

enjoying the company of a puppy given to her by a neighbor. 1945

 No discrimination in this huddle. Akshi Alan Asakora plays football in the yard 

of the Lincoln School in Santa Barbara, where he has resumed studies since 

his family returned to their former home from the Gila River Center. 1945

   

 The honored American custom of raiding the icebox is especially pleasurable 

to the Yamadas after life in a relocation center. Peoria, Illinois, 1944

  

 The Oda sisters like to entertain their friends in their apartment in Rockford, Illinois. 1944

  

 The Taki Asakuras, who arrived in Santa Barbara from Gila River are seen escorting two 

veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion on a tour of Santa Barbara's scenic spots. 1945

  

When the Nisei get together for social entertainment in Chicago, their Caucasian friends also participate in the general fun. At the mike is a popular Chicago night club singer who has just presented one of her specialties. 1944

Charles Mace

These are photos of Japanese-Americans reintegrating into American society after the wartime internment. In retrospect it's hard not to see these as propaganda.

 A committee on housing is shown in session in Indianapolis. Mrs. Royal McLain (left) 

is seen discussing ways and means of finding suitable quarters for the many relocatees 

who are finding employment in Indianapolis. 1943

 

 Another American citizen has arrived at the home of Joe Takeda 

since night-riding hoodlums set fire to his house and sent five 32-caliber slugs 

crashing through the dwelling while the family slept. 1945

 

 Another freedom of considerable importance to the young feminine mind 

in America is the freedom to shop for and wear pretty clothes. 

These two Nisei girls are again enjoying that privilege. Chicago, Illinois, 1943

 

 At St. Anthony's Hospital, Rockford, Illinois, 

the Nisei and Caucasians work together. 1944

 

 Children have their own standards in their selection of friends and playmates. 

Libertyville, Illinois, 1943

 

 Eugene Kodani, from the Poston Relocation Center, now employed at the Greening Nursery Company, Monroe, Michigan, where he is engaged in budding peach trees. 1943

 

 Happy Nisei and Caucasian couples throng the dance floor of the YMCA 

at the All-American Fun Night program in Chicago this winter. 1944

 

 In the kindergarten of the McHenry, Illinois, grade school, the 6-year-old 

Okazaki twins, Sazami (left) and Toshiko (right), thumb through a 

picture-book while their teacher and a classmate look on. 1944

 

 Little Bernice Hijama, three, watches her mother pick a bucket of oranges 

from the trees surrounding their vineyard home near Fowler, California, to which 

the family has recently returned from the Gila River Relocation Center. 1945

 

 Mary Kageyama, Song Bird of Manzanar, and her younger sister, 

Tillie, at the piano, have relocated in Pasadena. Mary is a contralto 

favoring torch songs, and likes "Night and Day" the best. 1945

 

 Mary Kitano from Manzanar works for City New Service in Los Angeles. 1945

 

 Mary Nakamura is a sophomore at East High School, Rockford, Illinois. 

Biology is one of her favorite subjects, and in this picture she is shown 

receiving instructions from her teacher. 1944

 

 Mei Yamasaki, relocated in Indianapolis from the Tule Lake Center, is now employed 

as secretary and office manager of The Union, an Indiana labor paper. 1944

 

Miss Aiko Kiroki, who returned to Berkeley from Granada April 16, is seen 

in her comfortable home at 2411-1/2 Dwight Way, Berkeley. Miss Kiroki is blind, 

but has found work which she can do in her home. 1945

Charles Mace - Japanese Internment

 A scene in the induction center at Tule Lake. Many children were left guarding the family's sole possessions while their parents went through the routine of being photographed, finger printed and assigned to new quarters. 1943

 A train mother on trip 24, Tule Lake to Heart Mountain, is here shown assisting with the special diet of one of the children requiring pullman accommodations and special feedings. 1943

 Evacuees celebrate New Year's Eve. Topaz, Utah, 1944

 Girl reporters on the staff of the Topaz Times, publication of the Central Utah Relocation Center, interview new arrivals from Tule Lake through the car windows. Topaz, Utah, 1943

 Girls from the Y.W.C.A. Summer Camp at Pueblo, Colorado, many of them evacuees of Japanese ancestry from the Relocation Center at Granada, help the local farmers in their annual battle with the weeds. 1943

 Meals served passengers travelling to and from Tule Lake were excellent. Between meals, ice cream and lemonade were frequently distributed through the coaches. 1943

 Miss Helen Nakauchi, who determined not to miss seeing Glacier National Park when the train skirted that point, obtained permission from the train commander to clean a peep hole. 1943

 Nisei Sergeant, who had seen overseas duty in the China-Burma-India theatre with the United States Army, visits with a girlfriend aboard the SS Shawnee in Los Angeles Harbor. 1945

 Passengers on trip 15 to Tule Lake play a game of Shogi in the car smoker. 

Shogi is a Japanese game similar to chess. 1943

Some of the transferees arrived at the Tule Lake station after the rather tiresome trip from the Central Utah Center, showing little signs of fatigue as they left the coach for their new quarters. 1943