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“To All Persons of Japanese Ancestry”

This is a poster that details the mandatory evacuation to any Japanese people living within a section of the City of San Francisco. It states that the instructions stated on the poster apply to both alien and non-alien people of Japanese ancestry,…

Tags: 20th century, California, Discrimination, Japanes Ancestry, Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese American, Japanese evacuation, Japanese Immigrant, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, non-alien, poster, San Francisco, Second World War, State instructions, The Civil Control Station, WW2

Japanese Canadian men being relocated in British Columbia

The source is a black and white photograph of Japanese Canadian men being relocated in British Columbia.

The picture shows a group of males getting on board a train along with a women and child.

The photograph was taken in 1942 during the…

Tags: 20th century, Asian experience, British Columbia, Discrimination, Japanese, Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese Immigrant, Japanese Immigration, Photograph, Political Discrimination, Race Relations, Racial Tensions, Railway, Second World War

Japanese Store, Honolulu

A photograph depicting a Japanese family in and around their store in Honolulu. The subjects are pictured in a mix of traditional and non-traditional clothing, and there is a sign in Japanese over the store. The image looks posed, as everyone is…

Tags: 19th century, Asian, Culture, East-Asian, Hawaii, Honolulu, Immigrant, Immigration, Japanese, Japanese Immigrant, Japanese Immigration, Photograph, Postcard

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“To All Persons of Japanese Ancestry”

Japanese Canadian men being relocated in British Columbia

Japanese Store, Honolulu