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